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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"

Jun 9 •

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.

Jun 2 •

Deep Learning is Applied Topology

Everything lives on a manifold

May 20 •

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.

May 17 •

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.

May 12 •

Ilya's 30 Papers to Carmack: Complextropy Redux

After reading this paper, I am beginning to see the sketches of an actual pseudo-quantifiable theory of model complexity.

Apr 26 •

Tech things: OpenAI buys Windsurf, Google retains its lead, and where the hell is Apple?

$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.

Apr 20 •

Tech Things: Gemini 2.5 and The Bull Case for Google

Google's ability to control its own destiny means it can pursue technical strategies that are simply out of scope for its competitors. This is…

Mar 29 •

Ilya's 30 Papers to Carmack: Relational Recurrent Neural Networks

This post is part of a series of paper reviews, covering the ~30 papers Ilya Sutskever sent to John Carmack to learn about AI.

Mar 13 •

Ilya's 30 Papers to Carmack: VLAEs

This post is part of a series of paper reviews, covering the ~30 papers Ilya Sutskever sent to John Carmack to learn about AI.

Mar 6 •

Meditations on AI and the Future of Business

[Apologies in advance for the rambling.

Feb 16 •

Tech things: Deepseek, but make it cheaper

I. A few years ago, around 2018-2019, there was a study that was making the rounds about how smiling would literally make you happier, regardless of…

Feb 10 •

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