April 02, 2026 ·
Lots happening in the world today. Some top hits for me: Google dropped a new local LLM. Separately, Vitalik Buterin blogged about running local LLMs. Marc Andreessen said that's hypocritical of Vitalik as he funds doomer organizations. Andrej Karpathy tweeted he's building a personal Wikipedia via Obsidian and markdown files. Cool! It’s also one of the reasons why I started blogging recently. Great minds. What else, let's see; people filing taxes using AI; Attorney General Pam Bondi got fired; Stripe’s joining Coinbase in x402 agentic commerce protocols stuff. Lots more stuff.
Yesterday I saw the first 30 minutes of this livestream between Stephen Wolfram and Michelle Gilmore-Grier which I thought was interesting. I did not know that a) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz thought there's no ultimate, objective physical reality (his monads concept were spiritual entities), and b) Immanuel Kant criticized Leibniz's ideas of space and time. How cool. Makes me curious about Kant.
Lots of eastern philosophies, too, have the same assumptions as Leibniz. The word maya comes to mind, which has multiple meanings most common of which reduces to illusion. I find it annoying when academics are too strict on what comes from where, and instead of understanding, it all becomes a game of who has read how many books. I just think the Leibniz view maps really well with eastern metaphysical assumptions, which out of intuition I would wager is wrong or primitive-sounding compared to what we know now. I need to look deeper into Kant.
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