Mentorship

You’re Overthinking Your RL Research Direction. Here’s the Only Thing That Matters.

📅 July 26, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Stop asking which RL subfield is ‘most promising.’ The real answer isn’t a topic — it’s a mentor, compute access, and your own obsession. The biggest unsolved problem in AI isn’t picking a field; it’s handling unverifiable tasks. Your research career depends on local constraints, not global trends.

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The Fields Medal Celebrates Genius. It’s Also Hiding a Dirty Secret.

📅 July 23, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

The Fields Medal celebrates four young mathematicians, but the real story isn’t their brilliance — it’s the invisible infrastructure that made them possible and the systemic blind spots that make us lose countless others. The under-40 age limit creates perverse incentives, and the global talent pipeline is shockingly uneven. For anyone in tech, these winners are your upstream — and we’re squandering the source.

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