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The cost of AI reasoning over time.
As time progresses, AI models are achieving higher reasoning accuracy while their associated costs continue to drastically decrease. What does it mean…
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Karina Nguyen
Tailoring taste.
Some reflections on building Inter Alia, a visual text-image fashion recommendation search.
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Cultures of writing.
It's hard not to notice the pivotal role that strong writing cultures play in enabling innovation.
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Hard truths.
being honest, while excruciatingly hard, is necessary for living authentically and without regret.
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Karina Nguyen
A lost study of subway construction
As someone who grew up in a city of Soviet-era subways, I have a nostalgia for the engineering innovations that shaped its unique infrastructure.
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Karina Nguyen
Principled progress.
A new design mandate for AGI, moral craftsmanship, and inhabiting contradiction.
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the future i want to be in
tiny life update: i am joining Anthropic, AI safety research lab.
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cyberwarcrime and punishment
sci-fi and reality, war and peace, airborne leaflets and a new paradigm in hybrid warfare.
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Karina Nguyen
ukraine is my home
the relationship with my home is like of origami - it shaped me, hurting my fingers and so equally adding new layers to my identity and bringing me true…
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virtual reality, emotionally and ethically
VR intensifies a set of debates about art— contagious and bad or imitative and good for society.
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Karina Nguyen
from social networks to machine learning harassment.
new tools, systems, and infrastructures have profound consequences on how we think of ourselves, relate to one another, organize collective life, and…
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Karina Nguyen
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