A significant component of intelligence is compression.
- A significant component of intelligence is compression.
- A distilled, predictive model of a much larger, more complex thing.
- The higher the leverage, and the more predictive, the better.
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- A rule of thumb: spend 80% of time in fast execution, and 20% in synthesis.2026-03-09
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- For a tool to feel like an extension of you you must have a nearly fully predictive model of what it will do.2025-08-18
- This week I learned about a simple model that predicted the path of the ancestral migrations in Australia.2025-06-16
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