An incredible roller-coaster of a couple of weeks! Every time I think I’ve wrapped my head around the big storyline – the big breakthroughs, how they all connect together into a meaningful arc – every time I feel organized to write something – there’s a massive new breakthrough. These last two weeks topped everything. What… Continue reading The AGI Landscape Just Changed: SeedIQ, Active Inference, and What ARC-AGI 3 Actually Tells Us
Claude Projects: Week 1 – Tactics Learned
A week ago, everything shifted. I went from NOT using AI at all, in my daily life (except for brief, as-needed dabbles with MidJourney) to full-on immersion with Claude Projects. The reasons? Threefold, really: So – not knowing what to expect, having NO positive prior experience, but having heard good things about using Claude Projects… Continue reading Claude Projects: Week 1 – Tactics Learned
AI Is Tummy-Churning
I let AI make me sick this last week. To be more precise, I let my own interactions with AI make me sick – that is, a real tummy-churning episode. More than once. MULTIPLE times. And yeah, literally, multiple “where’s the antacid?” moments. And I handled it … BADLY. Various kinds of AI news finally… Continue reading AI Is Tummy-Churning
World Models: JEPA and VL-JEPA
This blogpost provides a more extensive summary of the JEPA (Jonit Embedding Predictive Architecture) and VL-JEPA (Vision-Language JEPA) architectures developed by Yann LeCun. An earlier world models overview blogpost gave an initial summary and preliminary resource set. This blogpost provides: VL-JEPA: Some Introductory YouTubes This YouTube by AI Revolution provides a very easy-to-understand contrast-and-compare between… Continue reading World Models: JEPA and VL-JEPA
World Models: Five Competing Approaches – Overview
As of late 2025, there are five different approaches to creating world models. Here, we do a contrast-and-compare, identifying not only the specific areas in which each is (or can be) useful, the companies and “Chief Magicians” (leading scientists) behind each, and – most importantly – the money. This blogpost is still under development; we’ll… Continue reading World Models: Five Competing Approaches – Overview
AI Misalignment: Anthropic’s Studies and More
Anthropic just released a study on AI misalignment that is even more chilling than what they found last week, when it became clear that a hacker group had used Claude Code blocks to hack at least thirty different organizations. In today’s study, Anthropic researchers M. MacDiarmid and others revealed the results of a study where… Continue reading AI Misalignment: Anthropic’s Studies and More
Self-Study Guide: Stat Mech and Gen AI
There are several different kinds of generative AI, but they all share three key elements. This may be surprising, since when we read some generative AI (Gen-AI) papers, we might find that one or another of these elements is not mentioned at all, or is hidden deep in the text. Some Gen-AI systems use neural… Continue reading Self-Study Guide: Stat Mech and Gen AI
Neural Net and Backpropagation Basics
If you’re new to neural networks and artificial intelligence, one of the first (and most essential) steps is to thoroughly (1) understand the architecture and processing of a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and to (2) master backpropagation. You can do this within a single weekend. Ideally, by the end of this weekend, you will have completed… Continue reading Neural Net and Backpropagation Basics
Get People to Read Your Paper: Five Vids and a Template
If you’re writing a research paper and you want to have the best possible professional style, these five YouTube vids and a free MS Wd (TM) .docx template will help you craft an outcome that helps you present yourself as a top-tier professional! The YouTubes presented here will give you essential tips and techniques that… Continue reading Get People to Read Your Paper: Five Vids and a Template
Three Strategies to Improve Job Search Success
Whether we have a safe, comfortable, and secure job – and just desire the next level, or absolutely NEED a job, as soon as possible – we need a job search strategy. In this post, we reveal three strategies that have worked for others, and it makes good sense to base our own job search… Continue reading Three Strategies to Improve Job Search Success