Archive - kraken

Humans at Scale

The first thing about world is that it’s big.

Oct 8 •

September 2025

Neither Experiences Nor Things

...but a secret third thing

Sep 9 •

July 2025

The Really Long Arc

Thoughts on "Life on Our Planet"

Jul 1 •

March 2025

Hunches about consciousness

What are we learning about ourselves by building thinking machines?

Mar 6 •

February 2025

Who can read your messages?

A one-page guide to messaging privacy

Feb 3 •

October 2024

Language Model Chat Room: Talk Amongst Yourselves

In my last post, I suggested a way to look at transformer models — the form of AI behind ChatGPT and its ilk — as a clutch: a soft, sliding layer…

Oct 5, 2024 •

August 2024

Transformer Models are a Clutch

How should we think about (the flavor of) AI known as transformer models or large language models (LLMs)?

Aug 6, 2024 •

Hi, Brandon here.

Aug 6, 2024 •

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