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Thoughts on AI, NLP, and building things

How to grow a rock

March 1, 2026

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How to grow a rock

Scaling laws, the compute arms race, and the quadratic wall — how the AI industry learned that bigger models need bigger appetites.

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How to teach a rock to see

March 1, 2026

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How to teach a rock to see

From pixels to poetry — how one architecture learned to see, hear, and dream.

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How to teach a rock to understand

March 1, 2026

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How to teach a rock to understand

From short-term amnesia to Attention — how Transformers broke the AI industry wide open.

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How to teach a rock to write

March 1, 2026

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How to teach a rock to write

GPT-3, hallucinations, and the art of whispering to a calculator — how the infinite autocomplete changed everything.

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When the Machines Came for the Farmers

March 1, 2026

AI & Economy

When the Machines Came for the Farmers

What the Agricultural Revolution teaches us about AI's impact on the global workforce — with interactive data visualizations.

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Can AI Help Design Our Mascot?

March 1, 2021

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Can AI Help Design Our Mascot?

We ordered designs from freelancers and compared them to what AI could generate. The results were surprising.

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An AI-Generated Art Experience

February 28, 2021

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An AI-Generated Art Experience

How far has AI (deep learning) come? We tested creating a fully AI-generated experience.

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What is "Narrow AI part 1"

January 11, 2021

Archived from Labelf

What is "Narrow AI part 1"

The type of AI we currently have is Narrow AI. I will with two posts try to explain what that means in practice for someone wishing to utilize deep learning.

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AI Surpasses The Human Baselines on SuperGLUE

December 31, 2020

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AI Surpasses The Human Baselines on SuperGLUE

Understanding AI progress and its current capabilities through the SuperGLUE benchmark.

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Training a Transformer

June 15, 2020

Training a Transformer

Some advice for training a Transformer in a new language

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What does this new language understanding mean for us?

March 10, 2020

What does this new language understanding mean for us?

AI gets a better score than 80% of Swedes on our advanced test for language understanding

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