Compression is prediction. “Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem…” Based on my read of this post, I am reasonable confident that I don’t really understand modern compression. ~ learn more
Magic is in the multiples. “why the ‘magic is in the multiples,’” is how Harvard Business School professors Ruback and Yudkoff summarize the whole game of buying small businesses (“Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition”) well. This episode is a tight refresher on […]
The Al energy bottleneck, with Tim Fist. This is a fantastically detailed podcast conversation. “Building new transmission lines permitting for that is an absolute nightmare.” The episode gets very concrete about why AI scaling runs into boring physical constraints like […]
The output is the watermark. The text that your Claude AI agent spits out has a hidden watermark, but it’s not added to the output. Instead, “the watermark is baked into the token selection itself!” It uses “key/context-derived sampling” so […]
Cards Against Humanity are great marketers, just like Elon. “We have forced Elon Musk to get the fuck off our land, and now it’s time to build something on it, a monument to remind Musk that he’s a sad little […]
How a simple request for Al to book a gym class exposed a major threat. “Bad news — I can’t add them back,” the AI agent replied after it tested a gym booking API by cancelling someone else’s reservation. It […]
The professor who taught people how to think “Professor Julius Sumner Miller finds pure joy in the ordinary world and cannot rest until you feel it too,” says the description of this restored 1962 episode of *Why Is It So?* […]
Massive iceberg collapses and flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland. “this video shows the entire event unfolding over approximately one hour, not just the brief final rollover seen in shorter clips shared around the world.” ~ learn more
DoorDash gets permission to run an airline. “For us it’s not just about building the drone, it’s just as much about running the airline: the routing, the safety systems, the operational layer that makes everything fly smoothly.” DoorDash says it […]
A selective PFAS binder from oats. “NeutraOat is a modified form of oat fiber (β-glucan) that binds PFAS in your gut before they get reabsorbed.” Grain Labs is recruiting 15 adults with elevated PFOS for a 12-week at-home pilot with […]