A “read it, but didn’t fully get it” column.

A “read it, but didn’t fully get it” column.
1/ I’m so damn tired of the whole agents-and-their-omnipotent-power topic, blasting from every iron. Even found a paper like this, (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.01489) which is like yeah, this is not a panacea. Also an Anthropic piece (https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents) says agents are needed in very few places and classic automation algorithms actually handle things just fine.
2/ liked this article (https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2025-january-01/) on predicting AI trends. Just entertaining and very clearly written.
3/ was checking out (https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings.jsp) which of our cities are expensive to live in and which aren’t, didn’t know about this site before, and do you have any cool resources like that—share plz
4/ learned what an invective is (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0)
5/ while I was riding I finished Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0) recommend it to sci-fi fans
6/ watched two interviews, one with Chollet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9WE1aOPjHc&t=753s) who’s a very cool dude in AI and launched the ARC Prize, and my favorite modern physicist Roger Penrose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQM0OtxvZ-Y)
7/ found my first lecture (https://youtu.be/pg1AMCNcmAs?si=bSx9kIZLuDoCbKUN) at MIPT, back in 2016 I think