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Thursday, February 19, 2026

India rising in the world, the next 30 years

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Ross Douthat interviews Amitav Acharya , NYTimes , Feb. 19, 2026. Douthat's introduction: Right now, 21st-century geopolitics ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Red meat

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Scaling won't get you to AGI

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Pioneer of causal AI, Judea Pearl, argues that no amount of scaling will get LLMs to AGI. He believes current large language models face fun...
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AGI has NOT been achieved.

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In a recent tweet Valerio Capraro explains why recent claims of reaching AGI are wrong: 1) They shift the definition of general intell...

Over and under the table

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The future of computer programming is here, and it’s fun.

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Paul Ford, The A.I. Disruption Is Actually Here, and It’s Not Terrible , NYTimes , Feb. 18, 2026. Vibe coding: To vibe code is to ma...

Dinner at the Elysian Cafe in Hoboken

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Prompt repetition improves non-reasoning LLMs

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LLMs process text from left to right — each token can only look back at what came before it, never forward. This means that when you write a...

Beethoven 5 acapella

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Group performs Beethoven’s symphony No.5 a cappella [🎼 HotPlaysMusic] pic.twitter.com/o37lqsjkcg — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 17, 20...

Chatbots have increased my sense of intellectual agency such that being an intellectual “outsider” becomes a superpower.

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That title links two different assertions: Using chatbots increases my sense of intellectual agency. Because I am an intellectual...

Across the Hudson from Hoboken

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Monday, February 16, 2026

Three mathematicians are not impressed with the ability of AI to do professional math

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Siobhan Roberts, These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test , NYTimes , Feb. 7, 2026. Dr. Martin Hairer (Swiss Federal Technology...

Chinese dancing robots

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🤯Absolutely insane. Unitree's humanoid robot team's performance at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala The significance of the humanoid r...

3 Hoboken scenes and 1 Hudson River/Manhattan

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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Wild child, dogs, and menstruation in Wuthering Heights

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Prompt to Claude 4.5: I found the following in my notes. What about the questions I ask at the end? “Take Wuthering Heights , 1847, and...
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