Nathan Mai

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  • BARKING | Jim HarrisonThe moon comes up.The moon goes down.This is to inform youthat I didn’t die young.Age swept past mebut I caught up.Spring has begun here and each daybrings new birds up from Mexico.Yesterday I got a call from the outsideworld but I said no in thunder.I was a dog on a short chainand…

  • product inspo

    Research:  Local-First Software Graphs are not the thing, they’re the thing that gets us to the thing How can we develop transformative tools for thought? On the Biology of a Large Language Model Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress Generative agent-based modeling with actions grounded in physical, social, or digital space using Concordia Reclaiming…

  • abstract

    We foresee on-device inference leveraging local models to architect the next generation of consumer AI applications. The three main advantages these applications would have are:  1) Access to local context 2) Data privacy and visibility 3) Reducing the cost of compute to near-zero This provides a complement to the two great risks we believe artificial…

  • sample

    All we have is our history — it does not belong to us, but we belong to it. It is our fate to disappear into the ordinary instant, and what seems to us so serious, significant, will one day be forgotten. Our dictionary of words between cradle and deathbed, returned to earth.  It is merely…

  • Two olive trees sprung up by the sea,At first slender and satin skinned, then tufted and heavy with fruit.They dropped their olives like beads in a ring,And children came to collect them.And to sit underneath the boughs with a book or a song,Sucking the green jewels and tossing the pits over their shoulders onto the…