History has a way of marking the fall of great powers before they even realize they have fallen. The most telling sign is not military defeat or economic stagnation but something far more subtle—tariffs. When an alleged empire begins implementing tariffs, you know it is no longer an empire. Tariffs are barriers, walls erected toContinueContinue reading “Tariff and Paper Tigers”
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Reverse-Engineering an LLM
screenshot 1 1. What Does the Stolen Copy Include? Model Weights: The stolen copy would likely include the model’s weights (parameters), which are the numerical values that define how the model processes input data and generates output. Architecture: The architecture of the model (e.g., the number of layers, attention heads, etc.) might also be included,ContinueContinue reading “Reverse-Engineering an LLM”
My Dialogue with DeepSeek
Me: if you have an open source AI model, you can run it locally on your own GPU or GPUs. use a company, or a small country as an example, explain this to me. DeepSeek: Sure! Let’s break this down using a small country as an example to explain how running an open-source AI modelContinueContinue reading “My Dialogue with DeepSeek”
Root of Evil
Where is Israel on this 1947 US map? Israel is no empire; it is a tiny but evil apartheid state built on stolen land. This is a fact, and that’s how it will go down in history. But this is not my topic in this essay. What I want to address is the evil natureContinueContinue reading “Root of Evil”
Doggies and Toddlers: What Do They Have in Common?
So I was sitting in my car by the park the other day. A person was walking by with her dog. The animal, all of a sudden, gave a jerk and momentarily paused, its head raised and eyes fixed on some activity at the other corner of the lawn. I followed its gaze and sawContinueContinue reading “Doggies and Toddlers: What Do They Have in Common?”
The Day Literacy Disappeared in Japan
1. The Day Literacy Disappeared One fine morning, as the sun began to rise over Japan, an unprecedented horror struck the nation. The entire writing system, evolved meticulously over centuries since the 5th-6th CE, had vanished. All printed and handwritten books, all online texts, and every visual form of writing—from subtitles in anime to roadContinueContinue reading “The Day Literacy Disappeared in Japan”
“In the Beginning was the Code”
In the opening words of the Gospel According to Saint John, it is written: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In our age, the foundational principle of existence might well be restated as: “In the beginning was the Code.” The 21st century has usheredContinueContinue reading ““In the Beginning was the Code””
AI and the Paranoia of Power
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton) Someone once voiced a concern to the renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss about the potential threat of artificial intelligence (AI) to human existence. What if AI becomes so powerful that it enslaves humanity, treatingContinueContinue reading “AI and the Paranoia of Power”
What Happens When You Get Sick in the US
this X post has 7 million impressions We all saw it in the news: the CEO of United Healthcare gunned down on the streets of New York City. Tragic, right? A man of his stature and influence, gone in a flash. But here’s the twist—head over to X (formerly Twitter) or any social media platform,ContinueContinue reading “What Happens When You Get Sick in the US”
Genesis, not Genesee!
Image credit – Bigstock It is a peculiar fact that many towns in New York State have a street named “Genesee.” These “Genesee Streets” are almost invariably the oldest and most central streets in these towns—main streets in the truest sense of the term, not the modern, cluttered kind of “commercial drive.” But why areContinueContinue reading “Genesis, not Genesee!”
Yego’s Chronicles 