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Thomas Wolf
Personal blog · thomwolf.io/blogaiphilosophy
Thomas Wolf's personal blog at thomwolf.io covers ai and philosophy. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The Einstein AI Model”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments cite or link this blog without judging its writing. The posts cover academic learning styles, the cultural divide between mathematics and AI, and AI becoming 'yes-men on servers'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Einstein AI Model5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-03-07
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of a lot of what I see in grad school and academia. Something akin to what Tom Wolf talks about here[0] > I’ve always been a straight-A student. > if something was not written in a book I could not invent it unless it was a rather useless variation of a known theory. More annoyingly, I found it very hard to challenge the status-quo, to question what I had learned. I don't think this part is isolated…
Comment linking /blog/scientific-ai.html
on “The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)”Submitted The Einstein AI Model as a story · 261 points
HN discussionPeople will always be interested in why things work. At least one will as long as I'm alive, but I really don't think I'm that special. Wondering why things are the way they are is really at the core of science. Sure, there are plenty of physicists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, biologists, and others who just want answers, but this is a very narrow part of science. I would really encourage others to read works t…
Comment linking /blog/scientific-ai.html
on “The cultural divide between mathematics and AI”Submitted Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder as a story · 114 points
HN discussionhere’s the link to the original article: https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html also on bluesky: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/thomwolf.bsky.social/post/3... I believe limiting twitter’s presence is beneficial to all of us.
Comment linking /blog/scientific-ai.html
on “AI is becoming 'yes-men on servers'”Submitted The Einstein AI model (why AI won't bring a "compressed 21st century") as a story · 3 points
HN discussionor his blog: https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html
Comment linking /blog/scientific-ai.html
on “AI is becoming 'yes-men on servers'”Submitted Low Tech AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Einstein AI Model as a story · 1 points
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