Rahul Raghavan

Singapore’s obsession with AI is hitting a new peak. 🇸🇬 🤖 Today, 4 of the top 5 most downloaded apps in SG are AI chatbots. Both the tech migrants and the aunties in hawkers are doing it. And what’s with this vpn at number 4.

The recent Sindarov interview in El Pais is great. I think elite young players have a more practical approach to chess training than past generations. They don't seem to view books and rigorous absorption of chess "culture" to be prerequisites for success at the top level.

This problem of extracting explanations from large models is interesting. Magnus Carlsen's team seems to have benefited (a lot) from some phenomenology of AlphaZero

The public benefitted from huge arbitrage during the decades when school teacher was one of the only professions into which women were permitted. All of the predecessors of the highly intelligent career-oriented women who now serve as lawyers and corporate executives were once teachers. Their career ambitions were artificially capped and routed into the formation of the minds of the next generation. All that residual female brilliance is now fully washed out of the system, which is now populated by the lowest performers among college graduates, with exactly the results in student performance you would expect.