Notes
All notes in the notebook.
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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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Inside the Dark Factory: Where AI Ships Software and Humans Fall Behind
Most developers are slower with AI. The gap between vibe coding and real Dark Factories is the most important organizational gap in software.
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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.