Education, when done right, is the best way to learn that. Stanford has a half billion dollar machine under the freeway. What does it do? Help you create things. Which is why Stanford is one of those schools everyone wants to go to.
TECHNOLOGY
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Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Breakthroughs in Speed and Adoption
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Fully homomorphic encryption was invented in the 1980s.
— Cerebras (@cerebras) 6 mai 2026
Why wasn't it adopted sooner? A 100,000x slowdown, driven by memory boundedness. Ajay Joshi from @CipherSonicAI explains how his team got it down to less than 2x.
(if this pattern sounds familar… LLM inference is… pic.twitter.com/gBVRMCBhBRFully homomorphic encryption was invented in the 1980s. Why wasn't it adopted sooner? A 100,000x slowdown, driven by memory boundedness. Ajay Joshi from @CipherSonicAI explains how his team got it down to less than 2x. (if this pattern sounds familar… LLM inference is
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E-waste mining with robots: a sustainable technological approach
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Nearly every student at Stanford has to play some VR in Jeremy Bailenson's VR class. The future of education is already here, just not evenly distributed.
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Opinion on Full Self-Driving Technology and User Safety
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China is way ahead. They have electric rails that are far far superior to anything we have. I'd get depressed about it, but then that won't help anyone. We have invented amazing tools to help us learn to do anything. So we can catch up.
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Microsoft Research Paper on Agent-Based Interpretability for AI
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NEW paper from Microsoft Research. (bookmark it) The entire interpretability literature is built around human readers. As more analysis gets delegated to agents, the right target of interpretability shifts. This paper is a recipe for designing tools that agents can actually
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Hermes Now Creates Videos with Hyperframes: Full Automation Loop
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I saw a system that can teach anyone to read fast. I'm not too worried. One taught me to take apart an electric motor in real time on top of the motor. I didn't need to read a book, or watch a video. Times are a changing. We need new skills. I tell my kids "who will be
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AI Investor Mentioned in Relation to Book Launch
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Exactly. And the tools for learning will greatly improve next year.
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Device with Sensors to Interpret Emotions
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This is just a total lack of creativity on behalf of educators. Years ago when I was going to college my chemistry professor said, on her first day in class, "you are allowed to cheat in my class." "You can bring the books to my chemistry exams." "You can bring a
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AI Wearable Device Launch and Advantages Discussed
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Luckily I can open up Terminal mode and watch it work. 🙂