Archive - networked

Context in LLMs and the blockchain

Large language models confront superficially similar challenges to those encountered by blockchains, but big differences emerge the closer you look.

Jul 16 •

April 2025

Move fast and break things

The trouble with 'everything-bagel' Abundance is the gaping hole right in the center of it.

Apr 2 •

July 2024

When political polling and betting odds diverge

I've created a new tool to correlate pairs of time-series datasets. So now you can measure just how much Thursday's debacle split the presidential…

Jul 1, 2024 •

August 2023

A smarter way to measure transcript accuracy

TLDR: I've built a Transcript Accuracy Analyzer app to evaluate accuracy in speech-to-text ASR models. (Warning: this gets pretty in the weeds.)

Aug 9, 2023 •

July 2023

Careless Whisper (Usage Can Blow Out Your API Limits)

Fun new experiments with cost savings on OpenAI.

Jul 7, 2023 •

June 2023

A.G. Sulzberger vs. The New York Times

The man has a lot of good ideas about journalism. If only he were in a position of authority to do something about it.

Jun 26, 2023 •

March 2023

And AI took that personally

My early (late?) thoughts on the enormous promise of AI, and whether some solutions are still in search of a problem.

Mar 22, 2023 •

January 2023

Introducing the Tether Insolvency Calculator

Is Tether solvent? Play around with my new calculator app to find out.

Jan 4, 2023 •

November 2022

Elon Musk: "We're aspirationally not dumb"

But what about non-aspirationally?

Nov 10, 2022 •

August 2022

The con is coming from inside the house

It's reassuring to assume that scammers are confined to the fringes of the crypto ecosystem. They're not.

Aug 23, 2022 •

The endless search for a crypto use case

Are we there yet?

Aug 2, 2022 •

June 2022

If Tether falls, FTX and Coinbase will let their users pay the price

That price is unlikely to be $1.

Jun 23, 2022 •

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