Month: January 2026
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Thoughts on Venezuela and the Shadow Fleet
I wanted to add a brief explainer on this post that may be perceived to be cryptic. It follows a chain of posts. The first time I was working on shadow fleets was in 2011/2012, at the time the Iran sanctions were constraining Irans crude oil export and the country resorted to an age old…
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Shocking thoughts
One of the most shocking things somebody that is very “successful” in life on some metrics was the following: I really hope none of my kids are stupid. I found this insanely irritating and shocking in so many ways. It spoke of the parental anxiety and fear that suggests that lives of children with less…
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Human embeddings
I wanted to share a new project or experiment, or, in the least, lets call it a method to explain AI to folks. I am working on that I broadly call and is broadly linked to the idea of human embeddings — I had mentally deposited that idea on my social media ledger and discussed…