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Watch: Inductive Biases, What Your Architecture Assumes
July 4, 2026

Watch: Inductive Biases, What Your Architecture Assumes

The inductive-biases series is now a ten-episode animated playlist: every architecture is a bet about the world, and the bet is the bias. No free lunch first, then each architecture read as its assumptions, graded on one scorecard.

Intelligence is a Shape, Not a Scalar
April 5, 2026

Intelligence is a Shape, Not a Scalar

Chollet says the intelligence ball is near-optimal. NFL says the bound is niche-specific. The bottleneck that makes us smart is the same bottleneck that prevents us from grokking what we build.

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