Essays

For a long time, I assumed self help books were simply motivational advice repackaged for different generations, but the more I looked at them, the more I began to see something else: Self help literature is less about individuals and more about civilizations, and every era produces its own version of the ideal human that society is trying to manufacture at scale and a lot of it can be tied to finding meaning across different periods in history (will write about it soon) ...

A commonly shared image online (not attached here) compares the number of parameters in a large language model to the number of neurons in the human brain i.e 86 billion. While the intent is to illustrate scale, the analogy is fundamentally flawed A parameter is just a weight, a number stored in a neural network that remains static during inference. A neuron, on the other hand, is a processor in itself ...