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  • July 7, 2026
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In the 1980s, Japan led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware, the industries everyone assumed would decide the next phase of economic power. Japan won them and still did not overtake the United States in the information revolution that followed. Jeff Ding, a political scientist at George Washington University, opens his book […]

New Zealand’s direct-to-cell revolution

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  • August 8, 2026
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Space-based cellular networks are reshaping Aotearoa’s market. Bill Bennett interviewed Khurram Shahzad, Gartner senior director analyst to get the big picture. Also this week: Chorus launches TimeSync and the ComCom moves on with its fibre review.

AI Enthusiasts Are in a Race Against Time, AI Skeptics Are in a Race Against Entropy

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  • July 9, 2026
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The following article originally appeared on Charity Majors’s Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I recently attended a talk where one of the presenters made some pretty…astonishing claims about what they had achieved by the pure, uncut power of vibe coding. Difficult engineering problems solved, backlogs cleared. Rewrites that would have […]

Build Your Own Post-training Pipeline

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  • October 7, 2026
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This is the final post in a four-part series about post-training. If you missed them, check out part 1, part 2, and part 3. Time to get your hands dirty! I’ll take you through implementing the key pieces of the classic ChatGPT pipeline: SFT, then reward model training, then PPO. The goal isn’t to reproduce […]