Val's Tech Blog

Sunday papers; tech's bitter lesson

Read your heart out

Oct 26 • 

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Machines of loving taste

Music and media streaming is an economically, ethically complex problem

Oct 23 • 

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September 2025

We're speeding directly into the AI of the hurricane

Claude Sonnet 4.5, Microsoft Agent Mode, and ChatGPT Instant Checkout

Sep 30 • 

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All the world's a stage, and all the humans and machines merely players

Is chasing order in an increasingly tumultuous world a Sisyphean or Herculean task?

Sep 28 • 

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Polymarket, Kalshi, and the Wild West of prediction markets

Event contracts put literal bull-riders in bull markets

Sep 14 • 

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August 2025

Scaling laws for personalized recommendation models

Why we need to put the personal back into personalization

Aug 7 • 

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July 2025

The life-changing Sarah Paine framework

This is super unedited!

Jul 31 • 

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May 2025

The Potato Chip Model

On this Memorial Day and one-year mark of starting this blog, I’m taking some time to recap how the tech landscape changed in the last year, explore…

May 26 • 

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March 2025

Alignment in recommender systems

Over the span of any given Monday you likely interact with at least three different recommender systems. If you’re like me and actively avoid most forms…

Mar 26 • 

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The Anthropic Economic Index is a microscopic lens with incredible potential

Every economist should be on this, stat

Mar 15 • 

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February 2025

Agentic economics

a crash course

Feb 22 • 

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hybrid consumption; generative media

Instead of deleting and/or apologizing for the short length and lack of editing and energy that went into my blog post last Sunday (2024 me would…

Feb 9 • 

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