Andrei Stoica

Lulu Cheng Meservey had a good take on X: the Zuck glow-up is now so overdone that it seems artificial, manufactured, inauthentic. Going on Joe Rogan last week may have been the final straw.

We can already see a backlash brewing on TikTok, accelerating by Meta rolling back moderation and by the TikTok ban being viewed as Zuckerberg puppeteering.... See more

The World Wide Web is what I know best (I’ve coded for money in the programming languages Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, PHP, Clojure, and XSLT), but the Web is only one small part of the larger world of software development. There are 11 million professional software developers on earth, according to the research firm IDC. (An additional 7... See more

For models like these to explain the value of TRUMP and MELANIA, there would have to be someone out there who thinks these memecoins have long-term value. But in fact, the models will work just as well if there are people out there who love to gamble , even when they know it’s likely to lose them money. We know from the existence of craps and... See more

By unfolding I mean “interrogating the conclusion to come up with an explanation of why it could be true.” What premises and reasoning chains leads to this conclusion? The explanation isn’t meant to prove that your conclusion was right. It is just a way of unpacking it.

By unfolding a claim into an explanation, you spread it on a “wider front” (to... See more

The difference between ”AI for work“ and “Your AI at work” will come down to access control.

It’s too risky for companies to allow external intelligence to have imprecise and/or non-revocable access to sensitive company data (passwords, keys, etc). To deal with this, I expect the leading AI companies will coordinate and create a “portable memory”... See more

I’m in 3 weekly study groups (on governance systems, robotics, and distributed computing) with friends, run a serious book club that takes on fairly weighty reads, and am working slowly through a few courses (two electrical engineering courses from MIT Open Courseware). On the practical front, I haven’t done this much hands-on hacking, building,... See more

So why is there a lag between what tech is needed now and the tech that is explored in some of these hugely-funded research programs? Developers and the intended users of peacetech seem to have different "starting points". Engineers are not trained on global conflict resolution and peace processes and are more interested in - or incentivized to -... See more