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Childhood and Education #16: Letting Kids Be Kids
The Revolution of Rising Requirements has many elements.
Dec 26
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AI #148: Christmas Break
Claude Opus 4.5 did so well on the METR task length graph they’re going to need longer tasks, and we still haven’t scored Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.2-Codex.
Dec 25
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Zvi's 2025 In Movies
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons…
Dec 24
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Keeping Up Against the Joneses: Balsa’s 2025 Fundraiser
Several years ago Zvi Mowshowitz founded Balsa Research, a tiny nonprofit research organization currently focused on quantifying the impact of the Jones…
Dec 23
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The Revolution of Rising Expectations
Internet arguments like the $140,000 Question incident keep happening.
Dec 22
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When Were Things The Best?
People remember their childhood world too fondly.
Dec 19
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AI #147: Flash Forward
This week I covered GPT 5.2, which I concluded is a frontier model only for the frontier.
Dec 18
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Zvi Mowshowitz
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The $140K Question: Cost Changes Over Time
In The $140,000 Question, I went over recent viral claims about poverty in America.
Dec 17
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Zvi Mowshowitz
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The $140,000 Question
There was a no good, quite bad article by Michael Green that went viral.
Dec 16
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Zvi Mowshowitz
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GPT-5.2 Is Frontier Only For The Frontier
Here we go again, only a few weeks after GPT-5.1 and a few more weeks after 5.0.
Dec 15
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Zvi Mowshowitz
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Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026
I’m doing the Monthly Roundup early this month so that next week can be GPT-5.2 and affordability of life week, assuming we are not overtaken by other…
Dec 12
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AI #146: Chipping In
It was touch and go, I’m worried GPT-5.2 is going to drop any minute now, but DeepSeek v3.2 was covered on Friday and after that we managed to get…
Dec 11
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