AI Is Terrible For Education. Here’s How To Fix It.
Getting the answer is now the easy part. Building your own world map and wisdom is the hard one.
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AI Is Not a Calculator
I have heard and read from AI fans that AI is like a calculator. Would you calculate difficult stuff by hand when you have a calculator available? First of all, despite we have calculator, we are still teaching kids to… Read More »AI Is Not a Calculator
Interview with a sweating AI CEO
Humor can say more in few minutes than analysis in an hour.
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
AI won’t save us. “As companies grow, they all end up with more and more layers of collaboration, review, and management. Why? Because otherwise mistakes get made, and mistakes are increasingly expensive at scale. The average value added by a… Read More »Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
Writing is Thinking
A lot of people are boasting about how they automate their writing to an AI. My take is simple – if AI can write it, maybe it does not need to be written. Writing is thinking. Outsourcing your thinking is… Read More »Writing is Thinking
A Luddite Criticism of Open Source
Dictating to people how to do stuff is counterproductive in many cases.
Meaning at the Boundary
Something crucial is missing. “The language model “knows” that balls fall when dropped — this is a robust statistical regularity across millions of texts. But it has never seen a ball. It has never felt gravity. It has never experienced… Read More »Meaning at the Boundary
Vector Search with LLMs
It’s just math.
Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement
Is this different than the previous maker phases? “This matters because the scenius phase is where the internal transformation actually happens. When you spend two years making useless Arduino projects, you develop instincts about electronics, materials, and design that you… Read More »Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement
Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works
Current AI paradigm might become for IT what String theory is for Physics. “What happened next was not a reasoned evaluation of competing paradigms. It was a gold rush. Google hired Geoffrey Hinton. Facebook hired Yann LeCun. Baidu hired Andrew… Read More »Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works