I am less concerned about addiction than i am about introducing micro targeted foreign agendas into our nation’s cultural landscape.

I mean, why not be concerned about both lol? We can do two things at once I think, and both of those things sound fairly negative.

Frederick Brooks in his essay "No Silver Bullet" (included in the collection Mythical Man Month) talked about the conventions of software development and I recall had called for taking an iterative approach to software development similar to what I had followed for the Automunge project, I went into a little more detail about that in my 2019 essay of the same name: https://medium.com/automunge/no-silver-bullet-95c77bc4bde1

A few comments: - It has long been known in other settings that a small number of points can impact performance of different conventions, this could perhaps be considered a validation of relevance towards the largest scales - I wonder if the reverse could be considered true, if such a small scale of data included in a training corpus can impact the model performance in a negative direction, could that same amount of data impact a model in the positive direction? - I think this is suggestive that there remains benefit to more authoritative sources of data aggregators, like respected publishers, journals, libraries, whereby inclusion of data in such more respected repositories can be considered validation of reliability for training.

I hereby present Book 7 of the essay series from the Diaries of John Henry, "Inevitable". I used to publish these every year, took a little more time on this book featuring a self-authored collection of essays published over last three years around subjects like AI, technology policy, investing, and entrepreneurship. One of inspirations for the journey arose from essays of Paul Graham so sharing to the Y-Combinator community as a courtesy. No language models were used or harmed in the making of these essays (unless otherwise disclosed). Cheers! - Nicholas Teague, 9/17/2025

The best way to learn a subject is to teach it.

The only tech that scales cheaper than drones are digital interventions. This is a better way to intercept.

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a full page ad directed to any remaining skeptics of quantum computing from the CEO of D-Wave Quantum.

Part of the problem of this form of benchmarking is that in some domains we wouldn't only be interested in the percent of times that an error channel is successfully mitigated, we would also be interested in the distribution of types of errors for cases where an error channel isn't successfully mitigated. The paper appears to be silent on that matter.

Thank God someone other than Scott Aaronson is publishing this kind of content. Shetl Optimized is too much of a vanity project to serve as a mainstream resource.

Meanwhile, the author of the foreward is none other than…

Joplin really laid the stage for the emergence of jazz music. The ragtime conventions are deceptively simple, they carry a kind of counter balance between the cleffs almost resembling polka at times, but the rhythmic styles often are more subtle with off beat progressions. The song structures progressing through chapters of themes are particularly interesting and lacking from most modern popular music.