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“In the old days, many decisions were simply based on some mixture of experience and intuition. Experts were ordained because of their decades of individual trial-and-error experience.” — Ian Ayres, Super…
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/salesforce-stock-gets-a-brutal-reality-check-amid-software-slump The company that mocked Oracle is now worth less than most leading AI startups. Who’s laughing now? A few years ago, Salesforce was the cloud darling that mocked Oracle…
Unlock 2-3x faster AI on Apple Silicon! This post explores optimizing models with Ollama and MLX, boosting performance for demanding applications.
The reason is simple: because you can. M1 or later Macs with 16GB of RAM or more are powerful enough to run useful models on device without sending any data…
In today’s competitive job market, your digital presence is often your first impression. With recruiters spending just 6 seconds reviewing profiles and 740 million professionals competing on LinkedIn, strategic optimization…
Lightweight, private, and customizable retrieval-augmented chatbot running entirely on your Mac. Based on the excellent work by pruthvirajcyn and his Medium article. ⚙️ About This Project This is my personal…
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral Mistral has unveiled Voxtral, an exciting new AI audio model that positions itself as a strong open-source competitor to Whisper, the reigning champion of speech recognition. With claims of…
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/ It’s still too early to declare a winner in the AI arms race, but one thing is clear: the competition is accelerating, and OpenAI may struggle to maintain its…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg75zv4gny2ohttps://electrek.co/2025/03/23/everyones-missing-the-point-of-the-tesla-vision-vs-lidar-wile-e-coyote-video/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1JBAfV4Io Not here to debate whether Elon Musk is right to insist on self-driving using vision-based AI only, but the logic is straightforward: if it’s a vision-based system, avoid using…
https://www.ted.com/talks/audra_a_diptee_the_records_the_british_empire_didn_t_want_you_to_see In his thought-provoking book Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores the concept of historical records being erased as a means of political change. This phenomenon is not new; throughout history,…
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinkinghttps://futurism.com/apple-damning-paper-ai-reasoningAnother article about AI is not “reasoning” – https://www.zdnet.com/article/ais-not-reasoning-at-all-how-this-team-debunked-the-industry-hype/ While it may seem that Apple is disrupting the AI industry by releasing this paper, it’s crucial for everyone to understand…
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33777https://futurism.com/time-workers-save-ai-jobs A research working paper pointing to LLM not having a big impact. And not improving salary even if it helped with productivity of workers. It’s just 2 years in…