Notes
All notes in the notebook.
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Small Models, Serious Work
Why smaller language models are quietly reshaping AI in 2026. The most interesting trend is not scale. It is restraint.
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Why Latin Isn't Called Roman
What the name of a language tells us about history and identity. Latin points to the people of Latium, not the empire that spread it.
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Only One-Third of Universal Grammar Rules Survived Testing
Why language is both structured and unpredictable. A large empirical test found most proposed universal grammar rules did not hold across languages.
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The Dark Factory Problem: Why AI Is Writing All the Code and Most Developers Are Still Slower
Why most developers are slower with AI, and why the future belongs to Dark Factories, not copilots.