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Imagining a Profitable Thiel Fellowship
How to create a profitable genius factory
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Moritz Wallawitsch
My 42 Favorite Books
Peres, Moritz, Gleick, Magee, Vinge, Soni, Mallaby: 42 books from the authors who changed how I think
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Why LLMs Will Never be Creative
LLMs are bad at writing original jokes and output “ai slop” and LLM agents frequently get stuck.
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Co-Founding
After working on Benchflow.ai (ai eval platform) for ~half a year, I broke up with my co-founder this February.
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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).
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An Introduction to vLLM and PagedAttention
Achieving Optimal Memory Utilization in LLM Serving. How vLLM and PagedAttention improve Throughput by up to 24x.
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Transaction Cost and Risk Elimination: Lessons from Thiel, Rabois, Bezos, and Khosla
On the Nature of the Firm and Risks.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Bad Analogies
Most analogies and mental models are bad. David Deutsch wrote: Arguments by analogy are fallacies. Almost any analogy between any two things contains…
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Why All Job Displacement Predictions are Wrong: Explanations of Cognitive Automation
Most predictions about job displacement through large language models (LLMs) are wrong. This is because they don’t have good explanations of how LLMs…
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