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Will AI Give Us More Free Time?
Not a Chance, and You'll Love It.
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Matt McDonagh
Bitcoin is the Protagonist
The world is rapidly digitizing.
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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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February 2025

Orion - The AI Life Copilot
Longtime readers will remember a series we did on Using AI to Create Software last summer.
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LLMs Turbocharge Reinforcement Learning
AI Research Paper Breakdown Deep Dive - #1
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AI Is Accelerating At Accelerating Rates
Breaking down the Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report & discussing implications
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Positive Feedback Loops to Heaven
AI Will Bring Bitcoin to $1 Quadrillion Market Capitalization
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InfiniteHiP: Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
Substantial speedups and improved performance on long-context tasks without requiring additional training or model modifications
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Decentralized AI is Coming for OpenAI and Google
Imagine a world where access to financial services isn't limited by your location, your income, or who you know.
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Will Reinforcement Learning Lead to AGI?
Everything old is new again.
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