Cognitive Offloading and the Virtuous Programmer
How AI pair programming transforms Larry Wall's three virtues of programming by elevating human capabilities through strategic cognitive partnership.
AI Primers
Introductory deep-dives into AI concepts
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Large Language Models: Invention or Discovery?
Exploring whether AI systems like LLMs represent technological inventions or discoveries of fundamental patterns that exist independent of human design.
Latent Space Invaders
How the hidden dimensions of AI systems mirror human cognition. Discover the multidimensional mathematical spaces where machine understanding happens—and why they matter for both silicon and carbon mi
NLP vs. NLP
Explore the striking contrast between Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Natural Language Processing—two fields sharing an acronym but diverging wildly in methods, evidence, and results.
The Algorithmic Taboo: AI's Collision Course with Society's Sacred Cows
An exploration of how AI technologies are inevitably confronting our most sensitive social domains, from politics and religion to healthcare and wealth distribution.
I Know Kung Fu
LLMs split nature from nurture cleanly. What the model knows is its weights. What it knows about you is whatever you bothered to say.
The CIqSi Collaboration: When Carbon and Silicon Intelligence Create Together
How a simple blog naming session became a masterclass in AI-human creative partnership, resulting in the invention of CIqSi - a fictional element that bridges carbon and silicon intelligence.
What a Time to Be Alive!
Watching AI follow the same pattern as electricity and the internet—transforming from amazing discovery to taken-for-granted infrastructure that powers everything else.