15 June 2024

24 links · Saturday

Four Futures For Cognitive Labor

I just returned from Manifest, a bay area rationalist conference hosted by the prediction market platform, Manifold. The conference was great and I met lots of cool people! A common topic of conversation was AI and its implications for the future. The standard…

DenseAV

Separating the "Chirp" from the "Chat": Self-supervised Visual Grounding of Sound and Language - CVPR 2024

Never, Sometimes, Always

Just like the only numbers programmers care about are zero, one, infinity, the only frequencies we care about are Never, Sometimes and Always.

Topological Problems in Voting

Back in college, I developed an interest in unexpected impossibility proofs applied to real world systems. The fact that certain abstract mathematical structures inherently have limitations which profoundly impact actual applications is both captivating and so…

Spending too much time optimizing for loops

This is part of a series of blog posts relating my experience pushing the performance of programming language interpreters written in Rust.

Who is the real Owner of your Data?

The question of who is the real owner of our data is not just rhetorical but an alarm bell for our digital autonomy. It's time to reflect on the long-term …

Weekly Review

Every week, I sit down on a Friday afternoon, at 2 PM, to do my Weekly Review. Well, almost every week. Uhm, 2 PM-ish. Fridays can be weird sometimes. I'v...