what happens when u give today's frontier AI models a standardized test designed for 17 year olds? i tested **20 AI models** from US and Chinese providers on the official SAT Practice Test #10 from College Board. **spoiler**: they're all above averag...
> "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" > — some cereal company marketing department, probably spoiler alert: i didn't die. ive been doing [OMAD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAD_diet) (one meal a day) since covid. the [science](https:/...
*DALL-E 3 prompt: the thinker statue composed of circuit boards and glowing neural pathways, contemplating existence, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting* > **tldr:** i gave 22 frontier AI models (16 western, 6 chinese) from 5 providers the 30-question Phi...
ok so ive been trying to get [back to reality](#back-to-reality) for a while now. # back to reality 6 months ago i bought a [flip phone](https://vincentwi.com/blog/project_dumbphone). and a month ago i bought a [ai wearable](https://bee.computer). im...
> A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. hi zane. tbh i havent had a resume since my junior year internship (2019); i went to straight into grad school and then got wine'd and...
>All media are extensions of some human faculty. The wheel is an extension of the foot. The book is an extension of the eye. The extension of any one sense reshapes how we live — and how we think. — Marshall McLuhan **your brain processes 10 trillion...
## Current rotation of plants. | Common Name | Image | Latin Name | Light | Watering Frequency | Soil Type | Humidity | Fertilizer | Pot Requirement | Common Issues | Pests | Maintenance | Propagation | Special Notes | Good Indoors? | Companion Plant...
# solutions **i dont know what the solutions are.** they will emerge over time. nothing is certain from the onset. [Bell, Lee and Zuck](https://vincentwi.com/blog/future_3#trends) couldn't have fathomed what their innovations would become. I wont pre...
# where to next? ok so **the economic model of the internet is broken**. #genz yay 🙄 [the incentives](https://vincentwi.com/blog/future_2#problem-3-the-incentives) of publishers are no longer to produce high quality content, unless they want to [game...
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# why now > It was a symbiotic relationship. Google benefited from being on THE place to find information. Users benefited by quickly finding what they needed. Websites and content creators benefited with larger audiences, focused and happy users, an...
> my goal with this (now 125+ page!) schpeel was to say that **the economic covenant of the internet is breaking**. we're witnessing the end of a 30-year handshake deal that built the modern web. there's a [$316B](#quick-math) search advertising bubb...
> my goal with this (now 125+ page!) schpeel was to say that **the economic covenant of the internet is breaking**. we're witnessing the end of a 30-year handshake deal that built the modern web. there's a [$316B](https://vincentwi.com/blog/future_2#...
the way most ppl do startups is *fundamentally flawed*. heres what i've learrned to try to not make the same mistakes. the **Product Development** process goes as follows: 1. Decide u wanna single-handedly **change the world** bc ur special like that...
We’re seeing the subtle infiltration of fascist ideology into the public subconscious through aesthetic ideas. [Looksmaxxing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looksmaxxing), [features vs facial harmony](https://www.tiktok.com/@qovesstudio/video/72628059...
The **CAT S22 Flip Phone** is __AWESOME__. It's exactly what you'd want in a dumb phone. It's got everything you need, and nothing more. It's pragmatic, [$80](https://www.amazon.com/Cat-S22-Flip-16GB-Touchscreen/product-reviews/B0BTTTXP6M/), and not ...
## I'm gonna try to make this real clear  my goal is simple. **identify a basket of foods i can eat ad infinitum.** I've tried just about every food texture on the planet: from **kangaroo** to **aligator**, **bland bi...
When did i get cooties? supposedly **70% of america has cooties** - aka oral herpes aka HSV-1. I know i do. when did i get it? who poisoned me >:( # Estimate for Teenagers with Oral Herpes (Ages 13-18) Ok so the [CDC's National Health and Nutrition E...
The best you can do is (to) try your best “Care what other people think and you will always be their prisoner” - Lao Tzu “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which has never happened” - Mark Twain You cannot become happy, you can only be ha...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are traditionally trained by **randomly sampling data** blocks from massive datasets. However, this way to learn **is probably dumb af**. Humans don't learn effectively by randomly reviewing information -> LLMs might bene...
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The Know All - Ramifications Pivotal pioneers and inflection points T&GR: pg20 Where does the original music come from? - Natural rhythm of heartbeat (Ooga Chaka) - What about the euphoric /stank face? The invention of time: clocks, dials, adoption T...
The Know All - Wisdom Wisdom skills (and meaning making maturity) involve the application of cognitive or reasoning capacities to the domains of human life Attributes: * critical thinking; * creativity, * self-understanding, * abstract reasoning, * s...
Vincent W thoughts What is the point of ML? What is it learning? Based on a fixed set of training data, learn to predict the label of unseen test data. They learn this by assuming this information is in a vacuum and nothing outside (unpredictable) ca...
Philosophy is full of irrelevant old dead white dudes. They’re all just conservative white males who write to further the ideological aims of a repressive Anglo-hegemony. Anything they say should be disregarded because they were so far removed from t...
OK so basically the year is bumblefuck middle age crusade shit and the catholic church has a cuckhold white knuckle grip on the nut sack of every living being bc of like Augustine’s philosophies from the 4th century. Tldr they’re the reason why catho...
# The Know All: Philosophy ## Pre-Socratic Philosophers ### Thales of Miletus (c. 624/623 – c. 548/545 BC) - Recognized by most (especially Aristotle) as the first philosopher in Greek / Western Tradition - The founder of the Ionian School - The Gree...