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OpenAI for Germany: A Tech Mirage Ignoring Citizens’ Real Needs
Oh, joy unbounded! Another tech behemoth swoops in to “revolutionize” the public sector, this time with OpenAI teaming up with SAP and Microsoft to birth “OpenAI for Germany” – a sovereign AI playground slated for 2026, where data stays cozy within German borders thanks to Azure-powered clouds. Because nothing says “innovation” like slapping AI lipstick…
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When “Errors” Speak: A Comparative Field Guide to Human and LLM Fallibility
The perspectives below come from a mathematician’s vantage point. They are not the product of formal training in behavioral psychology, and any remarks about human behavior may therefore be incomplete. The aim is pragmatic clarity rather than exhaustive theory. tl;dr Modern language models (LLMs) and humans both produce mistakes that look similar—fabricated facts, misplaced confidence,…
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A Small Praise of Hand and Mind
This is for everyone who still believes that writing is a craft and not merely a channel—and especially for my wife, who is bravely teaching children Latin, the language whose very verbs remind us that to scribere was first to carve. Cursive has fallen on hard times. It is easy to dismiss it as ornament:…
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Grok-4 Shakes Up the AI Leaderboards – How Elon Musk’s AI Stacks Up and What’s Next
Artificial intelligence enthusiasts have been abuzz recently about Grok-4, the latest large language model (LLM) from Elon Musk’s startup xAI. Grok-4 is making headlines by topping some of the most challenging AI benchmarks, even edging out heavyweights like OpenAI’s GPT (ChatGPT) and Google’s Gemini on certain tests. But how big of a win is this…
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Europe’s Exascale Extravaganza: A Supercomputer Saga of Red Tape, Rivalry, and Reluctant Reliance
Ah, Europe—the land of fine wine, historic castles, and now, at long last, an exascale supercomputer named Jupiter. It’s like the continent finally showed up to the AI party after spending years debating the dress code. Housed in Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, this beast boasts over 90 exaflops of AI-crunching power, a quintillion operations per second…
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