The Lindahl Letter

Thank you for tuning in to week 220 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Welcome to 2026 and beyond.” This last week has been about being a reflective practitioner and thinking about where we have been throughout the last year of the Lindahl Letter. This last year we covered research notes numbere...

Thank you for tuning in to week 219 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “2025 End of Year Recap.” Thank you for being here! The Lindahl Letter this week started out as a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays post and ended up just being an end of year recap. As the year comes to a close, I am taking...

Thank you for tuning in to week 218 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Nested learning and the illusion of depth.” Just for fun with this nested learning paper we are evaluating today, I downloaded the 52 page PDF and uploaded it to my Google Drive to have Gemini create an audio overview of the...

Thank you for tuning in to week 217 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “The great 2025 LLM vibe shift.” Vibe shifts came and went. People are certainly adding the word vibe to all sorts of things as the initial meaning has ironically faded. Casey Newton in the industry standard setting Platformer...

Thank you for tuning in to week 216 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “The biggest unsolved problems in quantum computing.” The field of quantum computing has accelerated rapidly during the last decade, yet its most important breakthroughs remain incomplete. The core research challenges that sta...

Thank you for tuning in to week 215 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Process capture and the future of knowledge management.” The history of knowledge management has been shaped by repeated attempts to store, retrieve, and reuse organizational insight. So much institutional knowledge gets lost...

Thank you for tuning in to week 214 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “The great manufacturing reset.” Boston Dynamics captured public imagination when they introduced Spot the dog-like robot back in 2016. Things have changed. Robots that walk around are beginning to enter the commercial landsca...

Thank you for tuning in to week 213 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Why a “combiner model” might someday work.” Open models abound. Every week, new open-weight large language models appear on Hugging Face, adding to a massive archive of fine-tuned variants and experimental checkpoints. Togeth...

Thank you for tuning in to week 212 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “The edge of realized technology.” Welcome to the start of season 5. Don’t panic, we are still covering advancing technology including quantum, robotics, and artificial intelligence within the Lindahl Letter. I’ll be writing a...

Happy Halloween everybody! Thank you for tuning in to week 211 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “When Satoshi-Era Wallets Wake Up.” Seriously, Bitcoin is weird. It has an enigmatic and anonymous founder. The origin story of how this cryptocurrency came to be is pretty much ineffable. Roughly a...

Thank you for tuning in to week 210 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “AI Is Burning Through Graphics Cards.” Generational wealth is being invested into data centers for AI. It’s so prevalent that you hear about it on the nightly news and municipalities are dealing with the power demands. The cl...

Thank you for tuning in to week 209 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Social media stopped being social.” Before we get going this week. I need to provide an update about last week’s post. I take full responsibility, as the principal writer here, that last week my writing efforts were just not...

Day after release update: I guess it was the 208th post where we hit the proverbial wall with a dud of a post. This post in retrospect turned out to be one of my weaker efforts. I thought it was a strong take about dealing with the rate of change in model development, but it was just not focused and targeted based on delivering quality and insights. Thank you for tuning in to week 208 of the Linda...

Thank you for tuning in to week 207 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Enforcing AI standards without exception.” Standards are something we need to spend more time talking about. That is a general statement and not a special argument. Years ago, I actually witnessed a physical desk sign at an o...

Thank you for tuning in to week 206 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration is “The Great Tokenapocalypse.” As large language models reach deeper into consumer devices, the cost of running them becomes the real bottleneck. So many tokens get burned with no ROI or use case for the company burning them; it's really out of control...

Thank you for tuning in to week 205 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Apple’s Hidden AI Strategy: Waiting it out with token avoidance as a first principle.” Apple’s relative restraint in deploying large-scale generative AI isn’t just about privacy posturing or design philosophy. Maybe it is jus...

Thank you for tuning in to week 204 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Context window garbage collection.” Here we are this week contemplating how to clean up the mess from all these celebrated LLM chat sessions. It’s a disjointed mess that lacks federation or dare we say portability. We are at...

Thank you for tuning in to week 203 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Portable knowledge sharding.” The shards of knowledge that we need are everywhere. They are just not portable and all packaged up. You open an interaction with an LLM based on a prompt, but you don’t really close it out by re...

Thank you for tuning into the podcast. This is week 202 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Personalized context bubbles.” Last week we took a deeper look into content window fragmentation. That is just the right amount of foundation to start to consider personalized content bubbles. Don’t panic;...

Thank you for being a part of the adventure. This is week 201 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Context window fragmentation.” Exactly. You are either aware of or have felt the effects of context window fragmentation. I thought this topic would be a really sharp angle for consideration. Somethi...

Thank you for tuning in this week. Not only will this not be an audio only presentation this week and you will have to check YouTube at some point in the not so distant future for more details on that, but also I have tweaked the noise gate in GarageBand to improve the overall audio quality. This is week 200 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week, the topi...

Thank you for tuning in to this audio only podcast presentation. This is week 198 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Machines that build machines.” As we embarked on this new season of the Lindahl Letter, I signaled that we would focus on three content themes. These themes included quantum compu...

Thank you for tuning in to this audio-only podcast presentation. This is week 197 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week, the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Magic state distillation explained.” We have spent the last 3 weeks digging into quantum computing. That journey involved looking at the top 10 quantum computer leaderboard, anne...

Thank you for tuning in to this audio-only podcast presentation. This is week 196 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week, the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Is quantum computing becoming an establishment play?” You probably have heard of IBM, Google, and Microsoft. They are a pretty big deal in the technology world. IBM has a really...

Thank you for tuning in to this audio only podcast presentation. This is week 195 of the Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “Annealing vs. gate based quantum computing.” You may have picked up from the last edition of the Lindahl Letter that I’m more focused on gate based quantum computing than I am con...