Sharat Buddhavarapu
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Sharat Buddhavarapu
Moreover, it would have been subject to frequent breakdown, so that it could not have been depended upon; for at that time and long after, complexity and unreliability were synonymous.
As We May Think
Do new media and technologies succeed when they meet a moment that they can be manufactured or spread reliably?
It isn’t AI in the way we have been thinking about it since the “Attention is all you need” paper.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
I mean this is the first thing that made me pay attention and think that maybe this could work.
If a writer is really to be helped by an automated system, it ought to do more than retype and transpose: it should stand by him during the early periods of muddled confusion, when his ideas are scraps, fragments, phrases, and contradictory overall designs. And it must help him through to the final draft with every feasible mechanical aid—making... See more
Your Review: Project Xanadu - The Internet That Might Have Been
I agree with Ted here.
The idea that I have many partners, each with different skill sets, who are willing to work on things without pushback—unless I ask for it—is extraordinary. So I am being more creative now on a per-minute basis than I have been in 20 years.
Alex Dobrenko • A conversation with Seth Godin
Is creativity, creativity without some resistance? So is he being more creative or deluding himself into thinking he is?
On the first Friday pickup, an incident occurred in which the police were called and a student was dismissed from the school.
ALPHA School Brownsville Campus Review Pt. 2
Why were police called so quickly?
The elder Cook’s proof had assumed that bits of data were like pebbles that have to occupy separate places in an algorithm’s memory. But it turns out that’s not the only way to store data.
Ben Brubaker • For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time | Quanta Magazine
Like quantum superpositions? I’m confused as to how a single memory location could store more than one piece of data.
- “Did you hit your minimums?”
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
We’re making kids meet KPIs now????
One element I was hesitant about was their strong request that parents not provide tutoring or academic help at home. We were encouraged not to look at our children's screens so we wouldn’t unintentionally interfere.
ALPHA School Brownsville Campus Review Pt. 2
Why are they trying to disenfranchise parents? Weird ask.
On top of an already rough day, my child was placed in a deeply vulnerable situation and became embarrassed in front of her classmates.
ALPHA School Brownsville Campus Review Pt. 2
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