Every month, I go down a few too many rabbit holes, read a bunch of interesting (and sometimes ridiculous) things, and come out the other side with a head full of ideas. Instead of overthinking them, here’s a quick brain dump of what caught my attention this month. No deep dives, just a list of things I found worth noting.
- LLM model distillation
- Synthetic model training
- AI Prompt Management and Versioning
- The Jevons Paradox
- Reasoning Models (DeepSeek R1 and ChatGPT o1 and o3-mini)
- How Import tariffs work
- How to fix ‘brew update’
- Converting my website to a PWA with Cursor
- Project Stargate
- Decentralized AI & Distributed and Community Owned Training (via The Cognitive Revolution)
- Outrage Fatigue & Hyper normalization
- The Overton Window
- The Cerebras chip (via The Cognitive Revolution)
- WASM containers (via The Cognitive Revolution)
- Mixture of experts (MoE)
- The Barbell Strategy
- Snow Sublimation
- Gumption Traps
- Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman
- Richard Feynman’s blackboard
- Pump and Dump (and Javier Milei’s $LIBRA token)
- Deep Research
- Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance
- Emergent Misalignment (via Simon Willison)
- Adversarial training & Gradient descent
- Stone Soup
- P(doom) - not sure what mine would be yet