analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

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  • ai and task fragmentation 4 Jun 2026 [marginalium] AI and task fragmentation. A while back I came across the time-horizon model of AI task automation. It was a somewhat reassuring piece for p...
  • ai productivity 22 May 2026 [marginalium] AI productivity. I’m pretty skeptical about AI enhancing productivity (see e.g. AI isn’t changing anything yet and the slow gains despite ap...
  • digital personhood 1 Jul 2025 [marginalium] On the possibilities for secure digital personhood. I am fairly obsessed with this, but my first project on it isn’t very user-friendly. Nor...
  • seo for ai 23 May 2025 [marginalium] SEO for AI: While the number of consumers using AI in lieu of Google is still small, it’s growing quickly. A 2024 survey estimated that 13...
  • newsfeed vulnerabilities 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Newsfeed vulnerabilities: Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, blocked news from its apps in Canada in 2023 after a new law required th...
  • slow fade of the formatting fetish 4 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Slow Fade Of The Formatting Fetish. This is a great article that explains why word processors like Microsoft Word are ridiculous, and that w...
  • inside arxiv 31 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science. This is paywalled, so use your favourite paywall buster. A hit on academic...
  • everyone knows your location 1 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Everyone knows your location—an informal exploration of how much data is harvested from your phone. Interesting and fun, on top of the usual...
  • open source gpt-o1 23 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Open source GPT-o1. DeepSeek R1 matches OpenAIs GPT-o1 for performance, but DeepSeek is an open source model. Didn’t take that long to devol...
  • thoughts on ai use-cases. 23 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Thoughts on AI use-cases. Whole AI update is interesting, if fragmentary. See also the bit about use-case limitations, lower down. Also the...
  • storing data generationally 17 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Storing data generationally—how to store for 100 years. I found it interesting because I’m very into data preservation, but also, it frames...
  • encyclopaedia brittania is a profitable ai company 3 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Encyclopaedia Brittania is a profitable AI company now. Paywalled, so need a paywall remover like archive.ph. But interesting not just for t...
  • ai model efficiency improvements may make them tiny 13 Dec 2024 [marginalium] AI model capabilities don’t just scale with size, but with efficiency. I don’t pretend to understand lots of this but I did see: In other w...
  • a linkless internet 6 Dec 2024 [marginalium] A linkless internet. In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out the architectures of thought that unites the internet. Certainly anyon...
  • is surveillance capitalism not that bad? 23 Oct 2024 [marginalium] Is surveillance capitalism not that bad? The value in monetising user data, or at least a critique of the dangers. Largely, the argument is...
  • anchoring digital sovereignty 16 Oct 2024 [marginalium] Anchoring Digital Sovereignty. Should cyberspace be more like maritime law?
  • ai and intelligence analysis 10 Oct 2024 [marginalium] AI and Intelligence Analysis. Generally interesting, though they point out the data issue. And also suggest it’ll help avoid cognitive bias,...
  • lots of fun updates on the state of ai 4 Oct 2024 [marginalium] Lots of fun updates on the state of AI. My favourite: [I asked an AI with command prompt access] “can you ssh with the username buck to the...
  • ai obstacles---there's no data. 18 Sep 2024 [marginalium] AI obstacles—there’s no data: In order to get a nice standardized dataset that you can “do AI to” (or even “do basic statistics/data analys...
  • shadow prompting---how your ai prompts are altered 10 Sep 2024 [marginalium] Shadow Prompting—how your AI prompts are altered: When you type a prompt into an AI image model, you might expect that what you type has a...

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