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AI, mobility, software, and the odd product lesson from real work. Sharp enough for builders, casual enough for a train ride. No fog machine.
2026-06-01
The training side of AI gets all the headlines. But in the last year the inference side has been quietly transformed. KV cache compression, rotation-based quantization, and multi-token prediction are why your local model runs twice as fast today as it did twelve months ago.
2026-06-01
A GitHub repo nobody talks about might be the clearest window into how AI training actually got so much faster. Here is the story of modded-nanogpt and the people racing to train a language model as fast as physically possible.
2025-08-21
I once bet we'd hail an air taxi by 2027. Today, I'm less confident and here's why.
2024-06-09
It's 2019 and it is already midnight and I just wanted to get some sleep to be fit for work the next day but then I found this video on youtube which really got me thinking. So much, that...
2024-06-09
Tesla is taking the world by storm with its groundbreaking advancements in self-driving technology. The release of V12 Full Self-Driving (FSD) marks a significant leap towards making auto...
2024-06-05
The worlds of movies and games are colliding in a way that could reshape the entertainment industry. With the increasing use of 3D assets in filmmaking and the recent development of advan...
2023-04-25
A recent [study](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712) by a Microsoft research team dived into the capabilities of GPT-4. The findings of this research are both exciting and concerning at the...
2021-10-14
Back in 2018 I wrote this article and never published it. I still think, that innovation S-Curves are one of the best examples of how a great visual representation can make a very complex...
