The impact of AI on the future of mankind. For many weeks I’ve been resisting writing an article on the future of AI because I don’t feel like I can really do it justice. So many people talk about the future of AI citing the more recent technology that’s being…

Asking ChatGPT3 what the best emotional regulation methods are. ChatGPT3 has caught the public eye recently and has gained traction in a variety of domains. I plan on writing a separate article on the engine behind ChatGPT3 but for now this article is a discussion on the following idea: Can…

Diffusion part 2: A first principles approach. This article is the second in a multi-article series exploring the fundamentals of deep generative models where we discuss Hierarchical Markovian Variational Autoencoders (HMVAE). With advances in text-to-image generation (OpenAI’s DALL-E, Imagen, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, HuggingFace, etc.), text-to-text (ChatGPT, Chinchilla, Flamingo), speech-to-text (Assembly…

A First Principles approach. It’s useful to start from first principles and work our way up. In this article, we seek to understand where do variational autoencoders (VAE) come from and what are they trying to solve? This article is the first in a multi-article series exploring the fundamentals of…

Love lost, love learned, love found, rainy days, snowy days, sunny days. Her Looking into the sunset What a beautiful site 1 person among many people 1 life among many lifeforms 1 star among many stars 1 galaxy among many galaxies All interacting Infinitely complex Astronomically combinatorial How big the universe…

TL;DR: Humans are biased to perceive conversations and observed behaviors as accurate representations of another person even though these perceptions may be incorrect particularly with strangers. The takeaway is that it’s difficult to truly understand an individual and the best we can do is gather more data about that person…

A humble attempt at why we should read more. Everyone loves a captivating story. Whether it’s telling tales flowing from friends or unraveling mysteries from the backs of giants or discovering hidden tales wrapped in paper, the result is that same: visions only we can see unravel in our minds…

An interesting way to optimize your brain. TL;DR: Synesthesia is the fusion of any two perceptions elicited by a single stimulus. A good example is grapheme-color synesthesia where reading a word causes you to see that word in a particular color. In this article, I discuss the different types of…

What it means to be you. Meet Sammy. Sammy is the first human to try out a new teleportation device to Mars. When he’s “teleported” to the red planet his body is copied, and a copy of himself arrives on Mars while the original template remains on Earth. So which…