AI Strategy in 2024 for the Rest of Us

Marton Trencseni - Fri 04 October 2024 • Tagged with meta

My review of the AI landscape in late 2024, and what the road ahead looks like for those of us not building foundational models.

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200 articles

Marton Trencseni - Sat 28 September 2024 • Tagged with meta

A review and introspect on the second 100 articles written on Bytepawn.

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ChatGPT's critique of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's vision of the AI future

Marton Trencseni - Fri 27 September 2024 • Tagged with openai, chatgpt, sam, altman

A few days ago OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published an article titled The Intelligence Age. I used OpenAI's new o1-mini model to critique Sam Altman's writing of its own future.

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Why I don't live in Hungary

Marton Trencseni - Wed 07 August 2024 • Tagged with hungary, politics, orban, dubai

In February 2016, I made a life-changing decision to leave Hungary and seek opportunities abroad, starting in London and later moving to Dubai. This essay explores the multitude of reasons behind my choice and why I have no immediate plans to return to Hungary.

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How to solve it

Marton Trencseni - Thu 01 August 2024 • Tagged with polya, problem, solving

I discuss Polya's How to Solve it approach to mathematical problem solving and the 2010 paper Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math.

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Peak personal computing, or, my current workstation setup

Marton Trencseni - Mon 08 April 2024 • Tagged with computer, workstation, cpu, gpu, ram, monitor, nvidia, razer

Even since I've had a 386 in my room as a teenager, I've taken computers apart and modified and upgraded them. When getting a new workstation computer, I have never bought a pre-assembled one (like a Dell or HP), I always buy the components and build it myself. I've been doing this for 30+ years, so I'm used to it, it's part of my lifecycle. I built my current workstation in 2022, but due to reasons I describe in this post, I've been making a fair amount of modifications to it ever since. Finally, now in 2024 April, I feel that the system has come together and is perfect — I don't want to or plan to make any more changes to it.

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100 articles

Marton Trencseni - Mon 18 October 2021 • Tagged with meta

A review and introspect on the first 100 articles written on Bytepawn.

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How to make a blog like this

Marton Trencseni - Thu 07 January 2016 • Tagged with blog, pelican

Make a simple blog with Github Pages and Pelican.

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