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βIn a recent article, Iyama and Marczinzik showed that a lattice is distributive if and only if the incidence algebra is Auslander regularβ
βa notion first introduced and studied in a work of Ajitabh, Smith and Zhangβ
βI actually looked back at the World Economic Forum's future of jobs report 2025, which surveys over 1,000 employers across 22 industries and 55 economies.β
βSo researchers at Stanford actually published what they call the Canaries paper.β
βNow, by Anthropic's own research published in March of 2026, this actually confirmed the pattern. Their labor market paper found that no systematic increase in unemployment for highly exposed workers β¦β
βBen Thompson of Stratecery has a recent piece out titled TSMC risk in which he calls out TSMC's conservatism has costing the American hyperscalers hundreds of billions in revenue.β
βlike there's some bench there's a benchmark called T2 bench that is very popular in the the eval world where it's about customer service agents involving a databaseβ
βthe folks at Arc Institute are just came out today with a paper we'll call about EVO 2 which is like a a genomic model.β
βthat's why I want to introduce you to this awesome research HubSpot did on the AI adoption in email marketing report. It is fascinating report for you to understand for a vertical like email marketingβ¦β
βTo address this, we propose Stage-aware Hierarchical Advantage via Potential Estimation (SHAPE), a framework that formalizes reasoning as a trajectory through a state space of empirical solvability.β
β# Marc Andreessen: Why Perfect Products Become Obsolete _Blog post by Marc Andreessen_β
βThis paper proposes {\sf TriDeliver}, the first hierarchical cooperative framework...β
βWe present LocateAnything3D, a VLM-native recipe that casts 3D detection as a next-token prediction problem.β
βThe whole breakthrough with Google and attention is all you need paper with transformers, a lot of it had to do with this.β
βSo in uh nature um nature neuroscience. So, pretty super credible uh publication. And the paper was published called adversarial AI reveals mechanisms and treatments for disorders of consciousness.β
βNow, let's come back to this article by Jyn. By the way, I recommend that you read it.β
βin 2015 in one of the shareholder letters that are by the way a phenomenal resource for everyone and you guys should read it.β
βJohn Huber, who's one of our favorite investors... he did a really great job in a series of blog posts back in 2016 explaining basically how to think about ROIC... I would encourage anyone wanting to β¦β
βOur work underscores the importance of rigorous harmonization efforts in large-scale studies, and we encourage future investigations of HBCD data to control for these effects.β
βWe study both domain-specific expert personas and low-knowledge personas, evaluating six models on GPQA Diamond (Rein et al. 2024) and MMLU-Pro (Wang et al. 2024), graduate-level questions spanning scβ¦β
βWe evaluate model performance on GPQA (Rein et al. 2024)β
βUsing the result of Burer (2009), we express the EV charging as a completely positive program (CPP), whose dual is a copositive program (COP).β
βI published this piece today in foreign affairs about how Iran's winning the escalation war. So it just came out just a few hours before we came on.β
βI posted an in-depth article about this... on our block at Weights & Biases one b.com, you can take a look and read exactly what is going on.β
βGarpathy had a blog post... It's called a digital hygiene where he goes through just some basic things that you and I can do to make sure we're more secure online.β
βWe'll include a link to the paper and the thread in the show notes. Simple economics of AGI.β
βyou alluded to a you're linked to a Tanner Greer post about sort of different factions in Trump's camp who think differently.β
βI encourage people to look at the copper plates uh that are dated. This is mainstream normal history. The uh Mississippi mound culture and the copper plates found in Cahokia.β
βthe current draft title is long timelines to advanced AI have gotten crazy short and hopefully by the time this comes out, it's publishedβ
βI liked ideas as well from Daniel Cocatello and Dean Ball had a, you know, a sort of joint piece on transparency. I thought some of the things they pointed out there...also makes sense to me to have tβ¦β
βhe's written about it for folks who want to go into that in more depth.β
βthis paper is a led by a colleague of mine called Emmy Pbasco...The paper is about what gets called decision support systems.β
βThe main paper was really interesting. Basically for folks who didn't read it they had a few different things in there but the key idea this MAME idea I think was like mutually assured AI malfunctionβ
βHarvard Business Review, they put out this article called AI doesn't reduce work, it intensifies it.β
βthis research paper came out from MIT here called Your Brain on Chat GPT, accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing tasks.β
βa research paper was published in the Journal of Futures Markets that basically nobody read. Its title was the dollar's double life. Not all dollar appreciations are born equal for the crosscurrency bβ¦β
βThere's a great essay written by Arthur Burns in 1979, the anguish of central banking, where he essentially says that because the politicians want to provide this free money... people need to read a lβ¦β
βI wrote an essay called 47. We and I talked about the bureaucratic mechanations on how Fed votes and how you get control of this board versus that board.β
βnotion capital did a study the negative split uh data framework around founder endurance. You contributed to that and and provide some very key insights here. So maybe share some of that with us hereβ
βwe introduce Multi-Region Latent Factor Analysis via Dynamical Systems (MR-LFADS), a sequential variational autoencoder designed to disentangle inter-regional communication, inputs from unobserved regβ¦β
βI would encourage anyone who wants to invest in this IPO or invest in this company pre-IPO to read this profile, because I think it's important to understand the management of a company that you're inβ¦β
βyou guys at Lazar do an annual report called the levelized cost of energy, right? Um where you basically compare all the different generations um and their cost. And so and the next one I think is comβ¦β
βWe specifically consider Kantian ethics and present a multi-sorted quantified modal logic we call the Formula of the Universal Law Logic (FULL). The FULL formalizes Kant's f...β
βWe propose Bayesian Hybrid Shrinkage (BHS), an empirical Bayes (EB) framework that leverages data-driven priors to mitigate selection bias and provides accurate uncertainty quantification.β
βit is directed towards cryptocurrency. They go through specific solutions and problems for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a list of other chains as well... you guys can go through it, run it through your AI bβ¦β
βI highly encourage uh listeners and viewers of the podcast to go read it for yourself. Not that long, not that short either, perfect in length just to get the point homeβ
βAbout 10 years ago, he wrote a paper called the some simple economics of the blockchain. So, he was all over crypto when it was new.β
βTo help address this gap, we introduce COMPOSITE-STEM, a benchmark of 70 expert-written tasks in physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics, curated by doctoral-level researchers... All tasks are opβ¦β
βThe Google uh Dan Benet Justin Drake paper was pretty notable in that they didn't actually publish the circuit. They publish a ZK proof of the circuit.β
βmatching the algorithm of Karger and Levine for undirected graphs (SICOMP 2015)β
βSurprisingly, we can black box the dynamic data structure from the recent interior point method-based flow algorithm of van den Brand et al. (FOCS 2024).β
βmorphing circuits introduced in Refs. [1-3]β
βHe and Hua [Calc. Var. PDE, 2022] showed that $Ξ»_2(T) \leq 2/D$ for any tree of diameter $D$, with the even-diameter equality case fully characterized.β
βto do just that, Schollet created a special test. It's called the abstraction and reasoning corpus or arc for short. And the story behind this benchmark is fascinatingβ
βI think it it's worth reading because it kind of goes through the um you know, the kind of the history of organizations and how almost like I don't know if they mentioned like the joint stock corporatβ¦β
βmorphing circuits introduced in Refs. [1-3]β
βmorphing circuits introduced in Refs. [1-3]β
βhe recently put an article out that you may have seen uh called from hierarchy to intelligence and it's a manifesto on how to rethink basically rethink from the first principles how an organization woβ¦β
βA new report from the UK's AI safety institute talked to a bunch of AI experts to identify a list of things that today's AI fundamentally can't do and which of those things are probably necessary befoβ¦β
βTogether with the results of He-Hua and Lin-Zhao [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 2025] for even diameters and diameter three, this completes the geometric classification for every diameter.β
βThe inverse variational viewpoint may be regarded as a boundary analogue of the classical distance-matrix formalism for trees initiated by Graham and LovΓ‘sz [Adv. Math., 1978].β
βWe advocate for the alternative construction of the effective action and potential based on the Vilkovisky-DeWitt approachβ
βHow Code-Switching Explains The Worldβ
βNew Research Highlights Distinct Support for Immune-Balancing Activity in Lionβs Mane Mushroom Mycelium as Compared to Fruiting Body Extractsβ
βHow to Be Cultured https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/t-magazine/culture-guides-film-art-food-literature.html?smid=tw-shareβ
βI also have a weekly newsletter. So, even though I might be on a little break from the podcast, you can actually go to my weekly newsletter to get insights on what I think about the future of the creaβ¦β
βDr. Lichtenstein says the process for making these new guidelines was to dispense with politics and stick to the evidence. Well, I think there's no agenda behind these guidelines that they're evidenceβ¦β
βIf, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a βProfessionalβ CEOβ
β# The Singularity Is Not Coming _Blog post by FranΓ§ois Chollet_β
β# Productivity _Blog post by Sam Altman_β
βI encourage you to check it out. We will link it in the show notes.β
βFor more insights on the survey, check that out at the information.com.β
βyou mentioned later in this wired article that you stumbled upon the single algorithm Theory popularized by Jeff Hawkinsβ
βthe prevailing opinion was that human intelligence derived from thousands of simple agents working in concert this is what mit's Marvin Minsky called The Society of mindβ
βthere's also a recipe Pioneer by one of my friends Eric Bron and his collaborators sanit called a task-based analysis of jobs that I found to be very usefulβ
βBlog post by Naval Ravikantβ
βBlog post by Cohere https://cohere.com/blog/securing-ai-supply-chains-coheres-commitment-to-model-signingβ
βMy latest newsletter π https://briansolis.substack.com/p/why-some-ceos-know-the-next-chapterβ
βBlog post by Cohereβ
βFull debunk by @DrTechlash here: https://www.aipanic.news/p/ai-blackmail-fact-checking-a-misleadingβ
βShare this episode with friends and family and don't miss out on my newsletter wledger.substad.com for the latest updates.β
βThe Hatsugai-Kohmoto model thus emerges as a minimal, exactly solvable platform for interaction-mediated non-reciprocal many-body dynamics.β
βHow a Community Effort is Teaching AI to See Africa's Richnessβ
βWe recommend practitioners use these simple revised ResNets as baselines for future research.β
βAdding dynamic features to an aggressively cached websiteβ
β# Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think _Blog post by Google DeepMind_β
βHow to build AI product senseβ
β_Blog post by Mistral AI_ https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-vibe-2-0β
β# Running Pydantic's Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssemblyβ
β# D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions _Blog post by Google DeepMind_ https://deepmind.google/blog/d4rt-teaching-ai-to-see-the-world-in-four-dimensionsβ
βThe evolution of OpenAI's mission statementβ
βhttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-5-layer-cake/β
βNew post: Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyondβ
β# Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliableβ
βHow to use AI for your next job interviewβ
β_Blog post by Lenny Rachitsky_β
β_Blog post by Cohere_β
βhttps://anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-warβ
β# How to prompt Seedream 5.0β
β# Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills _Blog post by Simon Willison_ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/starlette/β