mm-machine
Local AI or Frontier LLM Cloud? The Real Economics for Professional Work
An India-focused comparison of Apple Mac mini, NVIDIA DGX Spark, AI subscriptions, and metered APIs — September 2026
mm-machine
mm-machine
The Retrenchment Trap: Why “AI Lets Us Cut Engineers” Is the Wrong Sentence
AI coding tools cost less than the engineers they're replacing" — the math looks simple until you build it line by line. The honest answer isn't one number; it's a range, and the cut deep enough to pay for itself is the same cut modelled to hurt your customers.
mm-machine
Open-Weight AI for the Enterprise: API, Amazon Cloud, or On-Premises?
Should enterprises access open-weight AI through APIs, deploy it on AWS, or operate local GPU infrastructure?
Mind & Machine
We Have Been Here Before
The technology is different. The drama is identical. We lived through this story before — we called it the personal computer.
Mind & Machine
The Dopamine of Artificial Intelligence: Why LLMs Are Making Us Hooked to Our Computers
Why does one AI prompt always lead to ten more? I explore the science of AI's strange pull — and how to stay in control. What's your longest AI rabbit hole?
Policy Lab
What Happens After Intelligence Is Enhanced? The Real Challenge After AI
After AI enhances decision-making at the top, the real bottleneck emerges below: execution. The next challenge is implementation intelligence. Smarter secretariats, same hands. Why the AI age will be won by institutions that redesign execution, not just adopt dashboards.
AI
Why India Needs Its Own Foundational AI Models: A Cost-Benefit Case for Public-Private Investment
India should build its own foundational AI models through public-private investment—keeping money, data, and intelligence at home rather than perpetually renting them abroad.
Information theory
How Do You Preserve a Message Across Millennia?
Echoes of the Vedas in Everyday India A few months ago, I was walking through one of those busy market lanes in Rishikesh — the kind where incense smoke mixes with river air, and every third shop is selling something you did not know you needed. I was not looking for
Information theory
You Are Not Alone. You were Decoded
What Information Theory Reveals About the Loneliness of Men in Their Forties Today I came across a tweet from a man in his forties. His story felt familiar, almost as if I could have written it myself. "I am 42, senior IT job, house in Chennai, supportive wife, two
llm-wiki
The LLM Wiki for Governments Working Primarily with English-Language Files
How Andrej Karpathy's idea can become an English-language knowledge infrastructure for governance Prepared as a concept note and implementation guide Governments do not suffer from a shortage of documents. They suffer from a shortage of compounding memory. Orders accumulate, circulars overlap, minutes are written and forgotten, clarifications modify
joseph-tainter
The Complexity Trap: Why Bigger Isn't Always Better
When More Features, More Choices, and More Information Stop Making Things Better Recently, I wrote a post on my blog, darkorange-squirrel-769791.hostingersite.com, about the growth and limits of Artificial Intelligence. I explored the idea that AI, despite its incredible speed right now, might eventually hit a ceiling and slow
markov-chain
The Serenity Prayer Is a Math Equation (And Your Brain Already Knows It)
Explained by Markov Chains: A Mathematical Model of How We Move Through Life I used to think the Serenity Prayer was just something people recited for comfort — a gentle reminder to stay patient. Then I stumbled across a mathematical idea called a Markov chain, and I couldn't believe