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TRIGGERnometry: People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen
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Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.
The mistake of conflating intelligence and power
If your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person who ever lived.
RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science
the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually make worse…
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a…
Blog prize for the big questions about AI
The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a…