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Mar 31, 2026 Battery underinvestment For over a century, the most important technology in the world has been sitting right in front of us. Ignored. Feb 20, 2026 AI and Jupyter notebooks are an explosive combination Jupyter notebooks replaced about three paid tools for me. Oct 30, 2025 Agentic AI: 8 GPUs, 32 experts each When the new chips arrive in about a year, the update the models get is hard to imagine. Oct 29, 2025 Quantum error correction, on GPUs First he smashes the industry, then he builds them error correction. Oct 28, 2025 NVIDIA and Nokia: 6G Today's cloud has around 100ms of latency. A drone over a crowd can't wait that long. Sep 16, 2025 Shortest argument to talk AI out of the market bubble 🫧 I almost stopped using Google. When I do google, I might as well use Perplexity or AI. What does that mean? Aug 4, 2025 End the copy-paste marathon That moment when you realize you're about to spend the next hour copying 50 Excel rows individually into ChatGPT. Jul 25, 2025 The inconclusive data we're throwing away We have a problem with the World Wide Web: everything is very inefficient. Jul 15, 2025 Viral Intelligence Big Bang I thought viruses were just for blackmail schemes. But viruses are much more powerful — and looking at a biological virus explains why. Sep 11, 2024 Gallery: 12 days in China Twelve days, one camera. Captions from the road. Sep 1, 2024 Changing an alleyway into an anime image One of the beginner use cases — learned from a single YouTube video. The only prerequisite is patience with Google Colab's free tier (or a subscription for the L4 GPU). May 8, 2024 My first AI experience My first contact with AI happened because of a school assignment in Taipei, 2020 — and a lucky draw in a class raffle.