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Humans are wired fundamentally to be irrational - our perceptual/cognitive apparatus is deeply flawed - umpteen studies show this - so this is a given. But, we also discovered a wa…

how can you say reasoning is fine - when it fails at basic logic.. ? we need to coax-it with the right prompts for it to come up with an answer - so, basically it cant reason. look…

take 3 ideas that are hot: chiplets, cloud, and LLM - remix them into the title of a paper that describes a hypothetical machine.. academia playing catch up and trying to stay rele…

disagree, their creators are hyping these things to no end - to get their next rounds of funding.

prove that there are no non negative numbers less than 3 bullshits an answer with confidence (all llms do this) stupid monty hall Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given th…

failed all the logic puzzles with slight tweaks - including stupid monty hall (with transparent doors). BSs with confidence. agi is not knocking at the door.

enterprise software architects trying to wedge into this emerging area, and you soon start hearing of: provenance, governance, security postures, gdpr, compliance.. give it a rest …

Please provide this reference in your readme / blog as it is the original source for your work... and provides the background for the tradeoff between the 2 approaches: 1) fine-tun…

imo, it is injustice to present a clean capsule of the subject in a book, and expect students to digest it - whereas it took hundreds of years of discovery to arrive at the concept…

No, I did not. The question is ill-posed imo. I would invert the question and ask: "How not to suck at your work" as that would lead to similar conclusions, and is more actionable.…

As Mark Twain said: "I wrote a long essay because I didn't want to put the effort writing a shorter one" - applies to this piece.

It is not confirmation bias. It is a different tendency. It is a tendency to absorb whatever we read or hear - regardless of its information content. IMO: Human languages evolved m…

Such despicable behavior from everyone involved. 1. Professors and MIT students attempting to gain fleeting fame riding on the bandwagon without trying to do deep work 2. Professor…

My apologies, I didnt intend to be rude.. Any discovery is a step forward (whether it is news or not)..

Proving a problem is np-complete should not be news. what should be news is when a problem has a P algo. (example, primes is in P) my cynical eye sees this as an over-eager grad st…

where is the study on "bitcoin as a tool in ransomware" ?

how can they make a sale to enterprise IT without a giant architecture diagram ? The next thing you know, java may rear its ugly head as well just when we thought python eliminated…

are VCs doing architecture now ? huh... architecture astronauts much. looks like they are playing catchup and trying to stay relevant. What happened to their web3 vision ?

agree with you 100%.. some philosophy (plato's dialogues) establish the underpinnings of reasoning and meaning - in that everything can be critiqued and debated. and some other phi…

loved the "dumb monty hall" problem, and inspired me to create this "stupid birthday paradox". "In an event for twins, How many people should attend so that the likelihood of findi…

if there is one thing chatgpt has opened my eyes to, it is that we live in a world teeming with BS. In particular, philosophical essays and books are full of it. It seemingly makes…

there is nccl, gpudirect, nvlink and so on and so forth.. It is not just matmul on gpus.

python is syntactic sugar - the heavy lifting is done by c/c++ bindings. many ML experts are not software engineers. They just want syntax to get their job done. fair enough.

In addition to the above: 1) function decorators etc have made the code unreadable 2) while code is succinct, a lot of abstraction is hidden in some C/C++ language binding somewher…