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A good first read · about 5 minutesWhat work should you hand over to an AI?

A practical question that introduces Vastkind’s way of looking at technology.

01 / Work · 3 articles · about 13 min

What can you hand over?

Start with the boundaries of an AI assignment. Then see what happens when an agent meets a physical mistake.

  1. Give an agent a clear briefA practical assignment template
  2. Follow the bubbles in the labA small failure with a larger lesson
  3. See how a robot recoversUseful work includes failed attempts
02 / Infrastructure · 3 articles · about 14 min

Where does the waiting happen?

Follow an AI answer through its hardware, try a simple speedup model, then trace the electricity behind the computation.

  1. Inside the wait for an AI answerTwo different stages of computation
  2. A speedup between calculationsTry the whole-job calculator
  3. From power agreement to power plantFollow the next milestones
03 / Health · 2 articles · about 10 min

What does a promising result prove?

Examine the experiment behind the headline, then see how different study designs answer different questions.

  1. Read the mouse study carefullySeparate experiments, separate conclusions
  2. Understand the cancer-trial evidenceResponse, comparison and time

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