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The sample efficiency black hole
"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is…
Jun 8
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Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
“One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”
Jun 4
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May 2026
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.
May 22
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The mistake of conflating intelligence and power
f this is your definition of intelligence is the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains, then Stalin was the most intelligent…
May 16
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Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.
Deeply researched interviews
May 16
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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…
May 16
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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.
May 15
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David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
May 8
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April 2026
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 blackboard
Apr 29
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More open questions about AI
Hodge podge of things I was thinking about this weekend.
Apr 27
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Blog prize for the big questions about AI
The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a researcher
Apr 24
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Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
Apr 15
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