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- Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom upMay 22, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.
- The mistake of conflating intelligence and powerMay 16, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
f this is your definition of intelligence is the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains, then Stalin was the most intelligent person who ever lived.
- Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.May 16, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Deeply researched interviews
- RLVR might be disproportionately bad at scienceMay 16, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually make worse predictions
- Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratchMay 15, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.
- David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolutionMay 08, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
- Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and servedApr 29, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard
- More open questions about AIApr 27, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Hodge podge of things I was thinking about this weekend.
- Blog prize for the big questions about AIApr 24, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a researcher
- Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moatApr 15, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
- What I learned this week - Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RLApr 15, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
April 15, 2025
- Michael Nielsen – How science actually progressesApr 07, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin
- Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discoveryMar 20, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”
- Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI computeMar 13, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago
- The most important question nobody's asking about AIMar 11, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
- Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada PalmerMar 06, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."
- Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"Feb 13, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
- Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”Feb 05, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“Those who live in software land are about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”
- Hiring scouts to help me find guestsJan 15, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
$100/hour, fully remote. Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of: bio, history, econ, math/physics, AI/hardware.