Abstract:AI systems have seen dramatic advancement in recent years, bringing many applications that pervade our everyday life. However, we are still mostly seeing instances of narrow AI: many of these recent developments are typically focused on a very limited set … Read more
Claude Code records each session to disk. Those logs include “thinking blocks” — the model’s own reasoning as it works. I went to inspect that reasoning this weekend and found a signature (600 characters long) and no text. So I … Read more
In August 1926, Jagadish Chandra Bose stood before a rapt audience of scientists and showed them their kinship with plants. Bose had traveled from India to Oxford to convince the esteemed members of the British Association for the Advancement of … Read more
Whether machines can think is a classic debate that dates back to the intellectual titans of the 1950s. Turing opens his 1950 article Computing Machinery and Intelligence with: I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” The Hungarian genius, … Read more
The Thinking Game Film Thank you!
When we train large neural networks, we need to keep them healthy. We do not want the tensors in the network—either the weights, activations or gradients—to grow too large or too small. Very small and very large tensors cause a … Read more
6th September 2025 “Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years… until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back in April. GPT-5 feels even better. I’ve … Read more
Imagine dialing a phone number by having to look up each digit one at a time in the phone book. Normally, you look up the number and remember all seven digits long enough to get it dialed. Even with one … Read more
3. Examples “He wanted to understand to the very end – Pascal’s night– the nature of a diamond– the melancholy of the prophets– Achilles’ wrath– the madness of those who kill…” Zbigniew Herbert, “Mr. Cogito and the Imagination” “The Astronomer,” … Read more
posts 2024-11-04 I’ve had a note in my todo list for quite a while to get my (admittedly small) collection of recipes on my website. The note mentioned to look into Cooklang which is a “recipe markup language” but I … Read more