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Civ 7: City Planning
Knowing where and how to settle is a critical part of being competitive and winning in multiplayer or deity. This short guide tells you how.
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A Few Quick Thoughts on Apple's "Illusion of Thinking" LLM Paper
Illusions of illusions of thinking, or, "why Apple's "Illusions of Thinking" Paper Isn't Fair to LLMs"
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Fix the root, not the fruit
The Internet has destroyed our ability to seek truth. "Abundance" won't save us. Being honest about the role of media might.
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Ilya's 30 Papers to Carmack: Deploying Big Models in 2015
This post is part of a series of paper reviews, covering the ~30 papers Ilya Sutskever sent to John Carmack to learn about AI.
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May 2025

Civ 7: War Strategy and Tactics
War is hell (except in this game when it's actually really fun)
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TV Review: Thoughts on "Andor"
The best Star Wars has ever been
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Deep Learning is Applied Topology
Everything lives on a manifold
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Tech Things: xAI screws up its system prompts, again
Once is coincidence, twice is enemy action. Also, you really should not be using LLMs as fact checkers.
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Ilya's 30 Papers to Carmack: Neural Turing Machines
This post is part of a series of paper reviews, covering the ~30 papers Ilya Sutskever sent to John Carmack to learn about AI.
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Tech things: OpenAI is Still an Unaligned Agent (?)
A walk through memory lane as we dissect OpenAI's history of weird corporate structures
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Colleges have an education problem
Reflections on a broken system
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April 2025

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