Archive - Scaling Knowledge

Imagining a Profitable Thiel Fellowship

How to create a profitable genius factory

Jun 6 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

My 42 Favorite Books

Peres, Moritz, Gleick, Magee, Vinge, Soni, Mallaby: 42 books from the authors who changed how I think

Jun 2 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

May 2025

Why LLMs Will Never be Creative

LLMs are bad at writing original jokes and output “ai slop” and LLM agents frequently get stuck.

May 29 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

After working on Benchflow.ai (ai eval platform) for ~half a year, I broke up with my co-founder this February.

May 6 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

April 2025

The Skies Should be Full of Flying Cars by Now

Where is my flying car? 2025 edition. On the history and regulation of eVTOLs (electric Takeoff and Landing Vehicles).

Apr 23 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

September 2024

An Introduction to vLLM and PagedAttention

Achieving Optimal Memory Utilization in LLM Serving. How vLLM and PagedAttention improve Throughput by up to 24x.

Sep 27, 2024 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

August 2024

Transaction Cost and Risk Elimination: Lessons from Thiel, Rabois, Bezos, and Khosla

On the Nature of the Firm and Risks.

Aug 12, 2024 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

February 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation Research: 2017-2024 Q4 (32+ Paper Summaries)

RAG literature review including: REPLUG, Fusion-in-Decoder, KNN-LM, RETRO, FLARE, Knowledge Graph Fusion-in-Decoder, SILO, WebGPT, Toolformer, Self-RAG…

Feb 29, 2024 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

October 2023

The Bioenergetic Explanation of Health

Health isn't just the absence of disease, but a state of unburdened and actualized physiological function. The quest for health requires hard-to-vary…

Oct 18, 2023 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

August 2023

Summarizing 50+ articles on Startup Ideas: Exploration, Identification, & Evaluation

I summarized the best posts and podcasts on startup ideas by the world's most successful founders and VCs, including Andy Rachleff, Thiel, Naval…

Aug 30, 2023 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

AI, Airships, Knowledge Retrieval, & More w/ Anton Troynikov (Founder @ Chroma)

Listen now (63 mins) | Other topics we talk about include AI native platforms, the printing press, theorem proving/generation, and reasoning in LLMs

Aug 29, 2023 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

1:03:27

July 2023

The Myth of AI with Erik J Larson

We discuss: the unpredictability of invention, research progress and limitations of deep learning, self-improving machines, and more.

Jul 22, 2023 •

Moritz Wallawitsch

34:01

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