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Why Model Distillation Matters - Part 2: When It Became Geopolitical
In Part 1, we covered what model distillation is, how OpenAI’s tools work, and what teams learned from a year of implementation.
Nov 26
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Serge Bulaev
Why Model Distillation Matters (And How It’s Playing Out One Year Later) - Part 1
A year ago, at OpenAI DevDay 2024, they announced tools for model distillation that seemed like they’d change how people build AI products.
Nov 24
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Serge Bulaev
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Simon Eskildsen: Building a Learning Machine in the Age of AI
I recently watched another podcast about what I love most: memory, learning, AI, and how these things are reshaping our brains.
Nov 21
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Serge Bulaev
When Three AIs Spent a Week Building Minecraft Civilizations (And One Jumped Off a Cliff)
What happens when you give three of the world’s most advanced AI models virtual bodies and set them loose in Minecraft?
Nov 10
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Serge Bulaev
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Can AI Predict Human Behavior? Stanford Proved It Can
Researchers at Stanford ran one of the biggest tests ever of whether AI can predict how real people will behave.
Nov 7
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Serge Bulaev
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October 2025
Random Walk and the Arcsine Law: Why Extremes Are More Common Than You Think
Have you heard of a random walk (in English they even say “drunkard’s walk”) and the arcsine law? These concepts mess with your head because they…
Oct 13
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Serge Bulaev
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Peering Inside the AI Mind: What’s Really Happening in LLM’s “Brain”
Anthropic has finally lifted the veil on how large language models actually “think”
Oct 3
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Serge Bulaev
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September 2025
The Dead Internet Theory: When Algorithms Replace Humans
How the internet is quietly transforming into a network of bots and algorithmic interactions
Sep 25
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Serge Bulaev
Duolingo’s AI-First Shift: Growth, Jobs, and the Future of Learning
When Duolingo announced its move to an “AI-first” strategy, the online reaction was immediate and filled with assumptions of mass layoffs.
Sep 24
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Serge Bulaev
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The Borrowed Mind: Are We Outsourcing Our Capacity to Think?
There's a moment that's becoming disturbingly familiar - when you're mid-sentence and suddenly can't tell if that insight you just shared came from your…
Sep 16
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Serge Bulaev
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When Jung Meets Machine Learning: Making the Digital Unconscious Conscious
Sometimes you read a line that hits harder than expected.
Sep 10
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Serge Bulaev
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𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞: 𝐀 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
If you’re still wondering whether employees posting content actually moves the needle, the latest data makes it hard to argue otherwise.
Sep 4
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Serge Bulaev
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