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all entriesall topicsTechnologyEssays / Dec 5, 2024The State of Technology as We Enter 2025AI 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.artificial intelligencestarlinkinternet6 min readOpen entryOpenTechnologyEssays / Dec 1, 2024AI Inference Guide: Boost Your Business with Machine LearningA practical overview of AI inference options, deployment environments, and performance tradeoffs for running models in production.inferencemachine learningai4 min readOpen entryOpenTechnologyEssays / Apr 30, 2024My most critical mistake in decades of studying technology - ignoring fictionAs 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.technologyfictioninnovation3 min readOpen entryOpenTechnologyEssays / Feb 23, 2024AI Dataset Creation is Missing a Piece of the Puzzle: Books are not 2D ObjectsWhy AI datasets miss part of reading when they flatten physical books into text, and what 3D book data could add to model training.technologyaibooks5 min readOpen entryOpenArt and perceptionEssays / Feb 23, 2024Shakespearean AI: Alignment by Allegory, Symbolism, and MetaphorUsing Shakespeare's allegory, symbolism, and metaphor to think through AI alignment and the hard-to-state nature of human values.artificial intelligencealignmentshakespeare4 min readOpen entryOpenBooks and historyEssays / Oct 25, 2023Rediscovering *Blended Worlds* and *The Flash* by John Henry Van DykeTwo rare books from Arizona's mining days, written by John Henry Van Dyke and published by the Miami Southern Arizona Publishing Company.rare booksregional historyArizona mining towns3 min readOpen entryOpenTechnologyEssays / Oct 25, 2023How to get ChatGPT to know about libraries that you useHow 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.prompt engineeringswiftswiftdata5 min readOpen entryOpenArt and perceptionEssays / Oct 20, 2023Gödel and the Utility of New ModelsExploring how Gödel’s incompleteness theorems relate to our current understanding of the utility of new models in AI and philosophy.philosophydeep learningmathematics1 min readOpen entryOpenTechnologyEssays / May 15, 2023Multimodal Models and the Problem of PerceptionA short note on multimodal AI, why combining text, image, audio, and sensory data matters, and what problems appear when perception becomes a system interface.artificial intelligencemultimodal aimachine learning3 min readOpen entryOpenTechnologyEssays / May 1, 2023Empathy Bots: Ground-Up Alignment with Human Emotion as a Core ModalityConsidering 'empathy bots'—AI that mimics human emotions. Some thoughts on the benefits and the tricky alignment issues of integrating empathy into AI.ai alignmentempathy botshuman-ai interaction4 min readOpen entryOpenBooks and historyCompendium / 4 min readAncient CivilizationsA comprehensive exploration of ancient civilizations, their cultures, technologies, and lasting impact on human history.4 min readOpen entryOpenBooks and historyCompendium / 29 min readAncient EgyptDynasties, hieroglyphs, architecture, religion, and daily life.29 min readOpen entryOpen
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