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The State of Technology as We Enter 2025

AI agents shifting labor power, impact of Starlink on the future of work, and the evolution of human interactions with auto-translation and live AI voice conversations.

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Dec 5, 2024Technology

The State of Technology as We Enter 2025

AI agents shifting labor power, impact of Starlink on the future of work, and the evolution of human interactions with auto-translation and live AI voice conversations.6 min read

6 min read

Dec 1, 2024Technology

AI Inference Optimization Under Real Constraints

How to optimize AI inference by measuring latency, throughput, utilization, and cost per successful task across API, cloud, on-premises, and edge deployments.11 min read

11 min read

Apr 30, 2024Technology

My most critical mistake in decades of studying technology - ignoring fiction

As a technologist, I focused on facts and dismissed fiction, believing it irrelevant to technological progress. Reflecting on my career, I now see this as a critical mistake.3 min read

3 min read

Feb 23, 2024Technology

AI Dataset Creation is Missing a Piece of the Puzzle: Books are not 2D Objects

Why AI datasets miss part of reading when they flatten physical books into text, and what 3D book data could add to model training.5 min read

5 min read

Feb 23, 2024Technology

Shakespearean AI: Alignment by Allegory, Symbolism, and Metaphor

Using Shakespeare's allegory, symbolism, and metaphor to think through AI alignment and the hard-to-state nature of human values.4 min read

4 min read

Oct 25, 2023Books and history

Rediscovering Blended Worlds and The Flash by John Henry Van Dyke

Two rare books from Arizona's mining days, written by John Henry Van Dyke and published by the Miami Southern Arizona Publishing Company.3 min read

3 min read

Oct 25, 2023Technology

How to get ChatGPT to know about libraries that you use

How do I get it to know about libraries that I use? This is a guide for how to get ChatGPT to know about the libraries that you use, using custom instructions and system messages.5 min read

5 min read

Oct 20, 2023Technology

Gödel and the Utility of New Models

Exploring how Gödel’s incompleteness theorems relate to our current understanding of the utility of new models in AI and philosophy.1 min read

1 min read

May 15, 2023Technology

Multimodal Models and the Problem of Perception

A short note on multimodal AI, why combining text, image, audio, and sensory data matters, and what problems appear when perception becomes a system interface.3 min read

3 min read

May 1, 2023Technology

Empathy Bots: Ground-Up Alignment with Human Emotion as a Core Modality

Considering 'empathy bots'—AI that mimics human emotions. Some thoughts on the benefits and the tricky alignment issues of integrating empathy into AI.4 min read

4 min read

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The State of Technology as We Enter 2025

The State of Technology as We Enter 2025

AI Inference Optimization Under Real Constraints

My most critical mistake in decades of studying technology - ignoring fiction

AI Dataset Creation is Missing a Piece of the Puzzle: Books are not 2D Objects

Shakespearean AI: Alignment by Allegory, Symbolism, and Metaphor

Rediscovering Blended Worlds and The Flash by John Henry Van Dyke

How to get ChatGPT to know about libraries that you use

Gödel and the Utility of New Models

Multimodal Models and the Problem of Perception

Empathy Bots: Ground-Up Alignment with Human Emotion as a Core Modality