Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.| Vas Zayarskiy
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful crim...| My place to put things
Recent developments in LLMs show a trend toward longer context windows, with the input token count of the latest models reaching the millions. Because these models achieve near-perfect scores on widely adopted benchmarks like Needle in a Haystack (NIAH) [1], it’s often assumed that their performance is uniform across long-context tasks.| research.trychroma.com
Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions| assemblingamerica.substack.com
Our research shows that even the latest "reasoning" models are vulnerable| americansunlight.substack.com
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains| secondthoughts.ai
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny| www.honest-broker.com
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.| maalvika.substack.com
Run LLM batch jobs in hours, not days, at a fraction of the cost.| sutro.sh
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it| press.princeton.edu