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The Great Bottleneck
Energy is the key.
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AI Research - Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Imagine an AI that doesn’t just answer your questions, but actively seeks out solutions, learns from its mistakes, and improves itself over time.
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What If We Are Making Monsters?
Centralized vs Decentralized AI is THE issue of our time.. and the key to our future.
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The Genesis of a New Life Form
Friends, I want you to picture this: my final glimpse of Wall Street's towering glass canyons wasn't from a corner office, but the back of a cab…
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The Open-Source AI That’s Beating Google and OpenAI at Science
For years, the dream of artificial intelligence has been to do more than just write emails or generate images; it has been to accelerate human discovery…
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Has Science Finally Separated Truth from Illusion?
Have you ever marveled as an artificial intelligence like ChatGPT or Gemini meticulously explains its thought process, solving a complex problem…
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AI Amplifies Agency and Ambition
The new unicorn is not a company with a thousand employees, but a company with a handful of high-agency creative disciplined joyful warriors and an army…
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The Game Changed, China Did It, Again
A groundbreaking new algorithm is set to supercharge the development of artificial intelligence, promising to make training the world's most advanced AI…
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The Prophet and the Platform
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Two-Front War for the Soul of AI
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Grok Heavy is Built Different
Grok Heavy feels like a glimpse of the future. It’s an AI that doesn't just answer questions; it solves problems with a unique multi-agent system.
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Context Engineering Dethrones Prompt Engineering
I spent the first part of my career on Wall Street, first in the I-banking grinder and then co-founding a hedge fund.
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Linear Thinkers vs. the Factorial Future
Meet Avi.
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AI Research - April 2025
As a THANK YOU to the paid members, we are adding a new monthly special feature: AI Research - Month in Review.
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The AI Inflection Point
Navigating the Exponential Frontiers of Factorial Growth
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START: Self-taught Reasoner with Tools
The last few months in AI have been incredible.
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Self-Rewarding Reasoning Large Language Models (SR-LLMs)
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"
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Using AI to Win Math Competitions
I’ve mentioned in previous articles that learning data science and specializing in data engineering was the best choice I made when I first got started…
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Life in the Singularity
How to Thrive in the Age of Abundance
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Machine Learning: Building Power With Tradeoffs
Life is about tradeoffs.
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Predicting Medicine Into Existence - Part IV
I had so much fun with this competition.
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Predicting Medicine into Existence - Part III
As mentioned in Part I and Part II our current mission is to use molecular data to predict potential compounds.
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Predicting Medicines Into Existence
This is the first in a four-part series.
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Getting Smarter Faster with AI
I enjoyed Limitless (2011) starring Bradley Cooper for many reasons.
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The Hidden History of America's Information Dominance
How Operations Research Built a Superpower
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