I saw a graph recently (see here, source: exponential view via Ethan Mollick) of the research capabilities (as measured using the GPQA Diamond metric) of A.I. models. At the moment OpenAI’s o3 model is about at the level of recent PhD graduates answering questions in their own field. The improvement in these models shows no…

Why bother striving for the best? Why not just settle for ‘good enough’? For me, ‘good enough’ is rarely satisfying. If I’m already putting in effort, why not push to make something great? This applies to everything—from cooking to coffee, from cocktails to finance. I find that seeking the best possible result makes the process…

I’ve been working on making some improvements to the gin and tonic recipe in liquid intelligence. The recipe in liquid intelligence is very delicious but it’s a little bit impractical to make the best version since you need to clarify lime juice for it and either extract quinine from cinchona bark or buy medical grade…

I live in a hard water area and so filter my water using a Brita filter for coffee. In the UK for Brita filters there is a company called Phox who make a refillable cartridge, with their advertising suggesting that using their refillable cartridge is more environmentally friendly than Brita. Their claim that the water…

I’ve been writing notes using the Zettelkasten method for the past 6 months or so. The Zettelkasten method is a way of organizing your notes where for each idea you have or want to note down you make a small note. You then link these ideas together to generate a network of notes. Here are…