2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (803+ words) There is an interesting but criticized theory in linguistics: Grice's Maxims of Conversation. This theory, introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, attempts to explain how humans converse. That is, it provides a framework for understanding how effective communication between two…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1665+ words) Over the years, working with enterprise data, analytics, reporting, and production systems has made me increasingly cautious about one particular statement: “The system worked exactly as designed.” Sometimes, that is reassuring. Other times, it is the beginning of a much…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1513+ words) One of the most frustrating networking problems is a failure that disappears when you try to investigate it. I ran into this on a high-speed Ethernet platform that looked completely healthy in the lab. The link came up normally, traffic…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (285+ words) For a long time, the natural question in financial machine learning was: which model is better — gradient boosting, LSTM, Transformer, or something else? In 2026, more and more research is pushing toward a different question: can we actually trust the experiment…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (669+ words) After working in the same research area for a few years, I started running into a very mundane problem: I often remembered that I had read something relevant, but could no longer remember enough to search for it properly. So…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (966+ words) Every automated system that still has a human with override permissions is not an automated system. It is a hybrid, and the human half never gets profiled. None of that shows up in a trade log. A trade log records…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (518+ words) A position paper by Google DeepMind researcher Tom Zahavy, LLMs can't jump, makes a specific claim about the limits of current AI: models are good at induction (finding patterns in data), increasingly good at deduction (formal logic and proof), and…...