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Ben Rechtarg min: a blog of minimum value. on the history, foundations, and validity of "optimally" automated decision making.
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Open and Shut
I hope the intent of my call on Monday was clear: we should strive for something that any team can build from scratch as long as they have access to the training corpus, the software, and computing resources. We want something open to the p...
Public Intelligence
I applaud Jensen Huang and industry leaders for coming out in support of open large language models. The entire tech sector minus Anthropic has now signed on. Now that the movement has momentum, I urge the signatories to endorse something e...
Science-based Shredding
I’ve been obsessed with playing guitar and making music since I was thirteen. Obviously, as a giant nerd, I approach this in the nerdiest way possible. So much of my playing is thinking about the mathematical relationships in patterns of in...
Dietary Shapes
Last week in Zócalo Public Square, I wrote a piece on optimizing diets, adapted from the second chapter of The Irrational Decision.1 It’s one of my favorite stories in the book. Though it predates computers by several years, it’s a microcos...
Methods to Madness
In the noisy chaos of science-based wellness on social media, there are a few reasonable voices. One of my favorites1 is Greg Nuckols, a champion powerlifter who has been blogging about the science of strength training for well over a decad...
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