DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and novel strategies has been a refreshing eye-opener. GPT AI improvement was starting to show signs
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence has been going through a phase of democratization to the point that in recent years the…
… Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?” asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe,” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?” asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how
