AI Cut Who?

Over 126,000 tech jobs didn’t quietly “transition” in 2025. They were cut. Data from layoffs.fyi and Crunchbase shows the pattern. It was a value audit. Companies and clients didn’t ask, “Who works hard?” They asked, “Who keeps the lights on?” Downtime and retraining is exceedingly costly. Be the lesser cost. The survivors and flourishers are those who understand how everything breaks. … Read more

VL-JEPA AI Abstraction

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The distinction between ‘describing’ and ‘understanding’ really hits home. We’ve been so focused on chatbots that can talk, but VLJ’s approach to actually comprehending temporal meaning feels like the missing piece for real-world AI. Descriptions up from atomic level is absurd for nearly everything, yet that is precisely how LLMs presently operate. Abstraction is key. … Read more

Beware Sam Altman over-exAIgerrations

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Docker pioneered but promptly lost control of containerization. I see the same happening to OpenAI / ChatGPT. “Eventually openai will be bought by Microsoft and that’ll be that.” “Cancer [cure] is 5% baking soda in water as revealed by Dr Simoncini (as ancient cure) before he was run aground…” “Data Center apocalypse in Northern Virginia … Read more

Re-examining RL and LLM Training

This is a classic numerical computation issue. The trade-offs are well documented in books like numerical recipes in c… particularly useful references are discussed in the chapters on and surrounding distribution sampling. Cold war error computation was highly constrained and inefficient so they had to solve many these problems to be able use them. Understanding … Read more

How to Feed Your Product Catalog to AI for Search, Merch and Purch

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If you mean ChatGPT’s “Instant Checkout” (buy inside chat), the most efficient path is not sitemap.xml. It’s: Below is the concrete “what data / what order / what format / what schema”. Step 0 — Confirm eligibility and apply Instant Checkout in ChatGPT is open to approved partners. The official “Get started” flow is: apply … Read more

ChatGPT Integrations — ShopGPT – a New Kind of online shopping experience – OpenAI as personal shopping agent – Instant Checkout

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“OpenAI recently announced a new feature that turns ChatGPT into a personal shopping assistant. You ask for something, and it doesn’t just recommend it. It finds it, prices it, and even helps you check out all in one chat. …a New Kind of Online Shopping Experience — one where everything from product discovery and research … Read more

AI Beyond LLM

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LLMs as we know them are already on their way out. In this video, I break down five breakthroughs that will redefine AI over the next 18 months: Diffusion LLMs (with Stanford’s Stefano Ermon), Power Attention for massive context, hidden/latent-space thinking and private chains of thought, Google’s Nested Learning for continual learning, and the most … Read more

Age Verification Digital ID Shadyness – “Age assurance” company “Persona” appears a Shell-game

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“…we are being basically extorted into giving them our biometric data if we want to use what we are paying for, and we now know some of what happens to the data after they collect it, none of which is ok with us.” SOURCEhttps://chemtrails.substack.com/p/substack-biometric-scans-new-us-identity WHO IS RUNNING THE BIOMETRICS PROGRAM? As I showed you in … Read more

Northern Virginia DataCenter Alley – 40% of Internet Traffic

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200 already built, 100 more already slated. Ashburn, Vigrinia (Loudoun County). Over 40% of Virginia power grid electricity feeds these monstrous facilities. GOOGLE MAPhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Ashburn,+VA/@39.0160549,-77.4632026,3485m WIKIPEDIAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor#Internet_infrastructure_and_data_centers Transcript