Imagine you’re at an auction. Maybe it’s in person, maybe it’s ebay, whatever. There are 10 people each with 10 dollars/Euros/pesos. There are 10 items for sale. What’s the maximum price an item will fetch? 10, assuming that no one cooperates/pools their money. Now, suppose the government announces mid-auction that the 10 dollar bill is
A gentle reminder that the only GUARANTEED private AI is with models you are hosting yourself, on your machine or your infrastructure. Every cloud provider, without exception, will have somewhere in their Terms of Service that they will comply with lawful requests for data from the government of their jurisdiction. For example, this is inference
Of all the models DeepSeek has released lately, none is more interesting to me than DeepSeek Math V2. Not because I have a particular affinity for math. I really don’t. It was the subject I did worst in school. (I credit my 5th grade teacher for instilling a deep seated lack of confidence in me
Right problem, wrong solution. This is one of the most manipulative tricks we have at our disposal today, and you see it everywhere – in sales techniques (the Challenger Sales ‘reframe’), in politics, in media. It’s a brain hijack, and it’s one you have to be super careful of because it’s so effective. Here’s how
Kimi K2 Instruct. Deepseek. Alibaba Qwen. Three of the world’s best AI model families. Financed and supported in part by the People’s Republic of China. World class coding and tool handling. I read the new paper from Anthropic about Chinese hackers supposedly using Claude Code to try breaking into different systems. The paper is very
WARNING: Politics and economics! Let’s dig into the H1B thing. If you missed the news, the US government has announced that it is increasing the fee for the H1B visa from around US 2500 to US 100000, a 39x increase in cost. According to Reuters, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said “All the major companies
“Every lie incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.” – Valery Legasov Warning: politics ahead! Changing data does not change reality. For analytics professionals, analytics is all about explaining what happened. That’s literally the purpose of analytics, so we can understand what happened and then make decisions about how
