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Read →What if RTX Spark is a defensive salvo by Nvidia against Apple?
RTX Spark looks like a personal-computing play. But trace the constraints — power, water, flops per watt — and it reads more like a pre-emptive block against an Apple move into the data center.
Read →How to tell when the model isn’t the bottleneck
A Transformer and a Mamba model have almost nothing in common. Different math, different inductive biases, different assumptions about what makes a sequence learnable. Train them on the same task…
Read →The Memory Merchants
The city never slept, and neither did I. Neon signs flickered restlessly, casting fragmented colors upon damp streets below. Each pulse of light illuminated faces lost in the shuffle of…
Read →Beyond Chatbots — implications of Generative AI for product builders
This is a from a 6-page memo I wrote in March 2023 on the disruption potential of Generative AI. I’m “open souring” it here as it still seems relevant to…
Read →Analysis of UAP Congressional hearing (November 2024)
INTRODUCTION The November 2024 joint House Oversight subcommittees hearing revealed unprecedented information about government UAP programs, suggesting a reality far more complex than previously acknowledged. Analysis of both direct testimony…
Read →Solving the paradox of cold Black holes with high entropy
Black holes can described by just two external parameters: mass and rotation. [1] They are also generally considered “cool” with their “temperatures” close to absolute zero. But they are also…
Read →Identity
He coughed and spat. Security Guard. The wretched soul couldn’t save himself from a pack of dogs if they were determined enough. And he’s supposed to give me a sense…
Read →The Dream
I woke up with a start. My heart was pounding and my palms were sweaty. A vague sense of terror after being woken up from a nightmare unremembered left a…
Read →Eat party sleep – part 1
In my previous post winter in summer-land, I wrote about my experiences in Malaysia, from where, I was to fly to Bali. First question is perhaps: why Bali? To be…
Read →Winter in summer-land
In my previous post the Nepali connection, I mentioned that my hosts in Kuala Lumpur had invited me to join their trip to Cameron highlands and that I had agreed…
Read →The Nepali connection… in Kuala Lumpur
“Malaysia truly asia, the mountains and the sea”, the ad from tourism Malaysia jungles. India has 7,500 kilometers of coastline and the mother of all mountain ranges – the mighty…
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