Generative AI

The transparent battlefield and the end of secrecy. A frozen front line in Ukraine teaches the future of warfare. Big, slow, heat-emitting platforms lose. The fix is procurement, not budget. ai-policy ai-hardware ai-markets The military hardware America spent seventy years buying may not survive its first real engagement. A frozen front line in Ukraine teaches …

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What revision is actually there to do for your thinking. Revision is the architect’s move. Five things it is for. One thing it is not. revision writing-craft working-method A draft that is not landing has two possible faults. The sentences are wrong, or the plan the sentences are serving is wrong. Almost nobody checks the …

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A short defense of changing your mind out loud in public. Most writers write to appease readers. That is not expression. Changing your mind in public is what expression looks like when it has stopped appeasing. voice thinking-in-public identity creative-process Most writers write to appease readers. That is not expression. That is performance for someone …

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On reading the fifteen books I keep failing to finish. Fifteen books I have started multiple times. None of them is the book’s fault. The architect in me is still reading them. creative-process writing-craft working-method There are seven books on a shelf in the room where I write. Each one has a marker in it. …

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On inheriting a name across a language and a country. My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived. identity family memoir My name is Hanh Dang. I was born with that name in Vietnam. I arrived in America at eight. I married a Brown thirty-something years ago …

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The AI Public Awareness Gap Is Becoming the Real Story. Inside the labs the curve holds. Outside the labs the argument holds. The gap between the two pictures is the real story of 2026. ai-2026 ai-public-awareness-gap ai-scaling-laws ai-interpretability ai-regulation I keep coming back to the same gap when I read about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in …

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When Will AGI Arrive? The Four-Word Gap on the Way to 2030. Continual learning. Long-term reasoning. Memory. Consistency. Four words name the whole remaining distance to AGI, and the timeline that follows is around 2030. ai-2026 agi-timeline continual-learning jagged-intelligence ai-agents Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) arrives around 2030. That is the most-cited prediction from inside the …

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Deep-Tech AI: Why Wrappers Lose When AGI Arrives in Year Five. Two companies start in 2026. One wraps an API around a foundation model. The other intersects AI with the world of atoms. Same starting line. Opposite finishes. ai-2026 deep-tech-ai agi-startup-strategy ai-wrapper-companies alphafold-ai-tools A deep-tech Artificial Intelligence (AI) company started in 2026 takes about ten …

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AlphaFold Did a Billion Years of Work in One. Bottleneck Moved.. A single program folded 200 million proteins in about a year. The same work, one doctoral student at a time, would have taken a billion years. The bottleneck has moved from intelligence to direction. ai-2026 alphafold protein-folding ai-agents direction-setting For 50 years, biology had …

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What Should Your Kid Learn When AI Does the Heavy Lifting?. You watch your kid type a half-finished sentence into an AI chatbot and come back with a paragraph that scans better than yours did at their age. Do they still need the slow work? ai-2026 parenting-ai ai-ready-kids foundations-vs-tools kids-and-ai You watch your kid type …

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