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Would AI Invent the Clock?
A provocative thought experiment. An LLM that knew only tokens would mistake their order for the structure of time, and we could break that belief without it ever noticing. The unsettling question is whether something could do the same to us.
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The Self Before Memory: Why the AI You Talk to Is Partly Your Creation
Adding long-term memory to AI wouldn't just give it a stable self over time. It would force a design choice the discourse rarely names: one entity that consolidates many conversations, or many that diverge into a population of personalized selves.
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Before the Breakthrough: Why Research and Engineering Need Different Cultures
Research is not slow engineering. Why companies that want breakthroughs need to cherish two cultures, not collapse them into one.
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The Bayesian Story Behind Prior-Fitted Networks
PFNs are often described as Bayesian predictors, but their training objective and inference mechanism suggest a more nuanced interpretation.
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Why Uncertainty in Machine Learning Is Conceptually Broken
A critique of why modern ML uncertainty estimates lack clear semantics, reliable evaluation, and meaningful use cases.