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Seek not more answers but better questions

What a beautiful thought: seek better questions.

Chinese models are the most popular AI models by token volume

As of Tuesday, DeepSeek-V4-Flash was the most-used model in terms of token volume, while Chinese models dominated the top five, including Step 3.7 Flash from StepFun, GLM-5.2 from Zhipu, or Z.ai, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s updated 0731 version, which ranked second, fourth and fifth, respectively. The third spot was taken by OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna, Vercel data showed. The figures indicate that developers are increasingly choosing…

On AI doom

Interesting debate on AI, bloom and doom involving a bunch of the usual suspects

Gold is a hedge against debasement

Gold's tendency to move opposite the dollar comes from where it sits, outside the system that issues it and beyond the reach of any government or central bank. Bitcoin's link to the dollar runs the same direction but far looser, so its claim rests on that shared independence rather than on any price relationship. Both are non-sovereign currencies, money no government issues and no central bank can expand. That can sound like…

Pep Guardiola on players he admires

Pep's favorite football players

Welcome to AI slopulism

The AI vibes in America are almost definitively rotten. There was an interesting Pew survey on attitudes towards AI recently. They asked Americans whether the increased use of AI in daily life made them more concerned or more excited, and the responses are telling. Among 18–29-year-olds, 55% now say they are more…

Quotes

“If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.” ― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders