I’ve been wanting to reflect of the past 2 years and 2 months I spent not working, but it never felt urgent or important (to anyone else) so I kept postponing it. But today is merely the third day I’m officially back employed and I still have 3.25 hours before a meeting, so I decide…
I was listening to this interview of Iain McGilchrist. He was explaining how the mechanistic metaphors that we often use in our daily lives could be more harmful than they are helpful. When we think of our bodies in terms of machines, it will consequently trickle down to our reductionistic approach in problem solving. We’re…
Story 1: Who plans better? You or LLM? I was watching this interview on Machine Learning Street Talk where Prof Subbarao Kambhapati argued that LLMs don’t have reasoning capability and therefore can’t generate a stylistically correct, reasonable, and executable plan. He shared an example of planning a trip to Vienna from India (transcript slightly rearranged…
I’m having a little celebration moment right now for my information detective skill. Allow me to share it with you. Earlier this week I saw a story of one of my IG acquaintances. it was a picture of a page shown on Kindle (see the passage at the end of this post). it looked interesting…