Published inThe SimulacrumNew York Just Got Disrupted.Why Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Matters — Even to His Skeptics4d agoA response icon24d agoA response icon2
Published inAutonomous AgentsLLMs Fail Badly in Planning with Below 5% AccuracyFrontier LLMs from major labs significantly lacks planning capabilities. Planning requires picking a sequence of actions that gets you from…Oct 28Oct 28
Published inAutonomous AgentsSecond‑order Optimizations for Deep Neural NetworksBack in 2016 I wrote “Hessian-free hacks for optimizing large neural networks.” At that time, the idea that curvature information could be…Sep 7Sep 7
Published inMathematical OrganismsWhat are Mathematical Organisms?Consortium for Life and Living SystemsAug 2A response icon3Aug 2A response icon3
Published inAutonomous AgentsAI Compression Should Not Be Confused With CreativityI find it hard to decipher it when people talk about “generalization” versus “generative” capabilities of AI models in the same breath.Aug 1A response icon1Aug 1A response icon1
Published inThe SimulacrumRIP Ozzy ~ The Crazy Train Has Left the StationI felt the room shift when the news came. Ozzy Osbourne, the voice that walked beside my shadow for decades, has passed at 76. I pressed…Jul 22A response icon1Jul 22A response icon1
Published inDecentralized EconomiesGENIUS Act: Congress Installs a Prudential Backplane for the $2 T Stablecoin EraJul 19Jul 19
Published inMathematical OrganismsMathematical Biology Is on Life SupportA manifesto for mathematician-first leadershipJul 19Jul 19
