There’s been an unsolved mystery for a while that I want to solve in public. I didn’t solve it. It’s been solved. But few people know the answer. The mystery is: Why do so many people pay so much for elite college educations when the actual education they receive isn’t that much better than online courses or state schools? And a second mystery is: And if the education is so similar, why do so many of the most successful people come from those elite schools. Paul Graham solved this for me in a number of his essays. Basically it comes down to relationships. Associations. Connections ..read more

? Continue reading online to avoid the email cutoff issue ? Unsupervised Learning is about the transition from Human 2.0 to Human 3.0 in order to survive and thrive in a post-AI world. It combines original ideas and analysis to provide not just the most important stories and trends—but why they matter, and how to respond. TOC NOTES MY WORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGY HUMANS IDEAS & ANALYSIS RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK APHORISM OF THE WEEK NOTES Hey there, So Llama3 came out last week, and it’s really impressive. I’ve been playing with this new AI UI called Bolt.ai, which is quit ..read more

I see a lot of people who want to work in cybersecurity. I said the same when I got started, but now I think this is the wrong way to frame things, especially because of AI. My thinking now is that working in an “industry” is too vague and unfocused to give you any stability in a world where AI can do most jobs. I think the only way to get stability in this future—or at least as much as possible—is to be very talented at working on really hard problems. Crucially, that requires that you can clearly articulate those problems, and describe how your approach and results are superior to alterna ..read more

? Continue reading online to avoid the email cutoff issue ? Unsupervised Learning is a security, AI, and meaning-focused newsletter that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a world that’s changing faster than ever. It combines original ideas and analysis to bring you not just what’s happening—but why it matters, and how to respond. TOC NOTES MY WORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGY HUMANS IDEAS & ANALYSIS DISCOVERY RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK APHORISM OF THE WEEK NOTES Hey there, Crazy week. Sorry for the late episode; a bit over-exposed to travel/humans and needed a couple ..read more

? Continue reading online to avoid the email cutoff issue ? Unsupervised Learning is a security, AI, and meaning-focused newsletter that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a world that’s changing faster than ever. It combines original ideas and analysis to bring you not just what’s happening—but why it matters, and how to respond. TOC NOTES MY WORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGY HUMANS IDEAS & ANALYSIS DISCOVERY RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK APHORISM OF THE WEEK NOTES Hey there, Going to keynote a conference in NYC this week! Excited to talk about AI, security, and hope for ..read more

? Continue reading online to avoid the email cutoff issue ? Unsupervised Learning is a security, AI, and meaning-focused newsletter that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a world that’s changing faster than ever. It combines original ideas and analysis to bring you not just what’s happening—but why it matters, and how to respond. TOC MY WORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGY HUMANS IDEAS & ANALYSIS NOTES DISCOVERY RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK APHORISM OF THE WEEK Hey there, Ok, probably the coolest thing I’ve seen this week is this video of Chris Cappetta having deep philosoph ..read more

? Continue reading online to avoid the email cutoff issue ? Unsupervised Learning is a security, AI, and meaning-focused newsletter that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a world that’s changing faster than ever. It combines original ideas and analysis to bring you not just what’s happening—but why it matters, and how to respond. TOC MY WORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGY HUMANS IDEAS & ANALYSIS NOTES DISCOVERY RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK APHORISM OF THE WEEK Hey there! Tons going on this week. Prepping for some paid talks, some travel, a product launch, and working on a w ..read more

One of the hardest things about being in information security is the frustration. The longer you’re in the field the more you’re exposed to ridiculously insecure systems that nobody seems to want to fix. We know how to fix them. We often have the money. And security people are explaining—at maximum volume—exactly how to do it. But it doesn’t happen. I’d like to propose an explanation and name for this phenomenon—the Efficient Security Principle (ESP). In other words, the way we know something has the “right” amount of security —acceptable, not ethically or morally—is when people just keep u ..read more

I’ve had this analogy in my mind for a while for AI. Specifically, neural nets. Imagine a coin sorter with a flat surface the size of the sun. So the idea for sorting coins is that you just throw random coins at it, and they fall into the system and bounce around and get filtered into certain paths. But in this system, the openings on the surface don’t just have a few sizes of openings, but billions. All different shapes and sizes of slots. And there are also billions of different sizes of coins. And when you throw coins (data) at the surface of the sun, that’s what changes the shapes of th ..read more

? Continue reading online to avoid the email cutoff issue ? Unsupervised Learning is a security, AI, and meaning-focused newsletter that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a world that’s changing faster than ever. It combines original ideas and analysis to bring you not just what’s happening—but why it matters, and how to respond. TOC MY WORK SECURITY TECHNOLOGY HUMANS IDEAS & ANALYSIS NOTES DISCOVERY RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK APHORISM OF THE WEEK Hey there! Added some really sick Patterns to Fabric this week! ⚙️create_better_frame: Takes any type of input wh ..read more