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AI is a tool that doesn’t come with an instruction manual.
The habits we develop using these tools in the early days of its adoption are pivotal to how it will shape the evolution of our species moving forward.

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‘Recognizing the disparity in the facts, both within and outside the tech community, was a formative moment. It highlighted the way we’ve been talking about these tools: there are disagreements about the facts, and without first understanding them, it’s difficult to have higher-level discussions or build any real consensus.’

Thoughts from Steve Klabnik, known for authoring The Rust programming book on the Practical AI podcast
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By the time the developing world has pianos in public hospital foyers, the developed world will have eradicated the need for hospitals.
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My life is…
Mathematics for Computer Science.
Information Theory.
Computer Networks.
Computer Programming.
And I’m loving every second of it.
Everything is computer now. ❤️
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“Healthcare is still deeply siloed, both within organizations and across the many tools they rely on.

AI has mostly been used as isolated point solutions, but growing connectivity between analog and digital systems, structured and unstructured data, and decentralized platforms is creating a path toward unified AI layers.

The real opportunity is to connect these fragmented systems so patients and critical information no longer fall through the cracks. It’s a difficult problem and far from solved, but advances in healthcare focused AI tools, APIs, models and agents are opening the door to far greater impact across the healthcare system.”

Thoughts from Dr. Nate Gross on The OpenAI Podcast: Building AI for better healthcare
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“When I was in medical school, the newsfeed came out, the iPhone came out, Twitter came out, the App Store came out. And so comparing the technology that we had as doctors, which was fax machine, clipboard, paper binder, the beginnings of electronic health records to like what my friends had or what the patients had in the waiting room was pretty profound.”

Thoughts from Dr. Nate Gross on The OpenAI Podcast: Building AI for better healthcare
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Journal Entry
2026/03/16

I’ve made up my mind. Long term plan is to emigrate to 🇵🇹 . Finish my computer science degree and specialize in AI engineering.
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‘Physics advances through a productive tension between theory and experiment. Theorists and experimentalists often frustrate each other—experimental results can ruin elegant theories, while theorists can annoy experimentalists—but that conflict is actually valuable. Even wrong theories can push experimentalists to build new experiments, sometimes leading to discoveries they would never have made otherwise. Progress in physics depends on this rough back-and-forth: theory challenges experiment, experiment tests theory, and both sides keep each other skeptical. That is why there’s a healthy distrust on both sides, captured in the jokes that a theorist is the only one who believes their paper, while an experimentalist is the only one who doesn’t believe theirs, and that people should not trust an experimental result until theory can explain it.’

Thoughts from Prof Max Tegmark on The Into The Impossible podcast with host Prof Brian Keating