Maia Talks About AI
Welcome to my AI blog where I aim to explore the geopolitical implications, mathematical foundations, and technological implementations of AI! I hope you enjoy.
Latest Posts
Attention Is Still All You Need
2026-07-29
Kimi K3, the Peter Diamandis Moonshots podcast, and the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter.
The J-Space: How I Learned To Read An LLM's Mind
2026-07-14
Anthropic discovered a small section of Claude's internal reasoning they call the "J-space." I explore what it is, and why it's so damn cool.
The Idiot Index of Tokens
2026-07-08
Elon Musk coined the 'Idiot Index' to decide what SpaceX should build in-house. Applied to AI tokens, it explains why every frontier model launches at a markup that eventually collapses — and why it keeps happening again.
The AI Scaling Law and DeepSeek
2026-06-18
Why DeepSeek's launch wiped $589B off NVIDIA, what a scaling law actually is, and how compute scarcity forced the efficiency that moved the AI frontier.
LLMs: An Attempt To Explain Them
2026-05-25
A non-technical guide to how Large Language Models actually work — tokens, embeddings, attention, and training. With optional math for the curious.
The Price of Waiting
2025-11-25
How Much is Your Future Self Paying For Your Present Self's Procrastination?
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Super Bowl XLIX: The Math Behind the Interception
2025-10-03
Analyzing Whether Pete Carroll's Decision Was The Statistically Correct One
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Do AI Models Have Their Own Personalities?
2025-09-20
A linguistic analysis of how the big three AI models express themselves differently.
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Stick Season: How The Weather Influences Our Music Taste
2025-09-13
Analyzing how weather shifts our Spotify listening habits.
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