Why AI won’t Revolutionize Education
Veritasium goes deep on education.
Technology
New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)
Quick explainer of a new paper on how Claude “thinks”. As I suspected (and most of AI researchers knew) it is just next word generator, and it is bullshiting with all the explaining stuff on how it arrived on the… Read More »New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)
Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Do you know the difference between complicated and complex change? Listen to learn. [Software Engineering Radio – the podcast for professional software developers] SE Radio 662: Vlad Khononov on Balancing Coupling in Software Design #softwareEngineeringRadioThePodcastForProfessionalSoftwareDevelopers https://podcastaddict.com/software-engineering-radio-the-podcast-for-professional-software-developers/episode/195513019 via @PodcastAddict
Why Minecraft won
It is not only about Minecraft. It is about how disruption works in the market
Recommended Read: The good times in tech are over
“Tech companies definitely did not have to be profitable. In fact, they didn’t even need to make money – they just had to acquire users, or at least hype, to drive up the valuation of the company itself. In that environment, throwing… Read More »Recommended Read: The good times in tech are over
Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
“The role of transformers in inference was never the intent. It emerged as a byproduct of scaling, where high language diversity, hyperparameters tuned for variance, and autoregressive prediction started producing results that mimic reasoning. But they still are just a… Read More »Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
Recommended Read: Techno-Fascism Comes to America
“techno-fascist officials “acquire power by creating these supra-ministerial organs and agencies, subgroups within the bureaucracy that are unaccountable.”” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk
Recommended Read: There Is No AI Revolution
“OpenAI loses money on every single paying customer, just like with its free users. Increasing paid subscribers also, somehow, increases OpenAI’s burn rate. This is not a real company.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money
Recommended Read: The Generative AI Con
“anecdotal examples of some people using some software that they kind-of like is not evidence that generative AI is a sustainable or real industry at the trillion-dollar scale that many claim it is.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon