Cocktail party ideas. People often discuss trendy topics with a certainty that can only come from a surface level of understanding, or misunderstanding. “Asking people why they think their solutions would solve valuable problems in the field has become a […]
The bitter lesson vs the garbage can. “And that is the Bitter Lesson — encoding human understanding into an AI tends to be worse than just letting the AI figure out how to solve the problem, and adding enough computing […]
My AI skeptic friends are all nuts. “First, we need to get on the same page. If you were trying and failing to use an LLM for code 6 months ago, you’re not doing what most serious LLM-assisted coders are […]
Software is changing (again). “Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej [Karpathy] sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where natural language becomes the new programming interface and models […]
Advice and lessons for healthcare founders. I’d say this is applicable to other industries as well. “Almost Everything You See Online is Wrong or Embellished … Just remember that anything that anyone posts online is a form of marketing. I […]
Pritzker to city: drop dead. “The governor just pummeled Chicago with more than $11 billion in new pension liabilities at the worst possible time. Residents deserve answers.” ~ learn more
38 weird facts about plants. I sent #20 to Kim right away: “Broccoli, kale, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts are all the EXACT same species…Brassica oleracea. Humans selectively bred them for different traits: leaves (kale), flower buds (broccoli), stems (kohlrabi), etc.” […]
Math is still catching up to the mysterious genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan. This is really great for it’s explanation of his work in a way that I could follow. “Ramanujan brings life to the myth of the self-taught genius. He […]
Polymarket article from New York Magazine. An interesting read for the background, however lots of vague insinuations and anonymous pot-shots scattered throughout. “Shayne Coplan’s Big Bet Is Paying Off He upended political polling by creating the billion-dollar betting platform Polymarket. […]