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Small language models are all we need

This is an interesting post on small language models, and I completely agree. For most tasks people have, whether in an organizational setting or in a personal capacity, frontier or large models are overkill. It's like using a chainsaw to slice a piece of bread. Most of our everyday use cases, inside a company or…

How does the preference for sons impact the mental well-being of women in rural India?

The researchers surveyed a sample of married women of reproductive age and their co-residing mother-in-law in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh. When there was more than one daughter-in-law in the household, they included the youngest woman. They collected socioeconomic and demographic data, as well as information on mental health using a survey that screens for the risk of depression and anxiety. They found the strongest…

Google’s Pragmatic Pivot?

GlucoFM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring Foundation Model) A lightweight, self-supervised model developed by Google Research for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Instead of treating glucose data as a single stream, it uses a dual-stream architecture that separates slow background metabolic baselines from short-term transient spikes (like meals, exercise, or sensor noise). This allows it to predict downstream metabolic…

Seek not more answers but better questions

What a beautiful thought: seek better questions.

Chinese models are the most popular AI models by token volume

As of Tuesday, DeepSeek-V4-Flash was the most-used model in terms of token volume, while Chinese models dominated the top five, including Step 3.7 Flash from StepFun, GLM-5.2 from Zhipu, or Z.ai, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s updated 0731 version, which ranked second, fourth and fifth, respectively. The third spot was taken by OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna, Vercel data showed. The figures indicate that developers are increasingly choosing…

On AI doom

Interesting debate on AI, bloom and doom involving a bunch of the usual suspects

Gold is a hedge against debasement

Gold's tendency to move opposite the dollar comes from where it sits, outside the system that issues it and beyond the reach of any government or central bank. Bitcoin's link to the dollar runs the same direction but far looser, so its claim rests on that shared independence rather than on any price relationship. Both are non-sovereign currencies, money no government issues and no central bank can expand. That can sound like…