Week 24 (09-15/06/2025)

👾 IT

• Commentary from Garry Marcus on the latest criticism of LLMs “reasoning” from Apple (link).
  • Interesting notes:
    • LLM might fail from inference outside of training distribution (out-of-distribution), same problem as perceptron
    • The main take home is that LLMs are not thinking, at least based on puzzle examples in the paper
• OS for public sector by EU, currently POC (link).

🔬Science

• Focused ultrasound stimulation could be the alternative treatment in future (link).
  • Idea started with chronic inflammation; possible other candidates are diabetes (already tested on mice, pigs and was published)
  • Could be converted into wearable device in future, allowing easy access for anyone

🔗 Links

• Marco writes about his own experience with Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory / Aphantasia (link)
  • TL;DR: Difficulty to recall information through visualization
  • Youtube: Missing Mind’s Eye: Solving the Mystery of Aphantasia
• DIY budget server for AI/ML (link)
• Emerging Startup AheadComputing focuses on building the next new CPU (link)
• Apple really likes to make those API calls (link).

🔧 Tools

• resemble-ai/chatterbox: Resemble AI’s first production-grade open source TTS model.
• AasishPokhrel/shit: This is kinda funny 😅.