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The Lindahl Letter

Dr. Nels Lindahl

Thoughts about technology (AI/ML) in newsletter form every Friday www.nelsx.com

technology management

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7:34

Nested learning and the illusion of depth

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2025/12/20

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 paper. That is just a one button request these days. We have reached a point where we can easily listen

5:56

The great 2025 LLM vibe shift

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2025/12/13

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 newsletter wrote about a big silicon valley vibe shift in 2022 [1]. It was a big thing; until it wasn’t

9:46

The 5 biggest unsolved problems in quantum computing

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2025/12/06

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 stand between today’s prototypes and large scale, industrially relevant systems are now visible with unusual

4:19

Process capture and the future of knowledge management

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2025/11/29

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 and discarded as organizations change and people shift roles or exit. People within organizations learn

7:20

The great manufacturing reset

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2025/11/22

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 landscape, and new entrants continue to appear. A humanoid robot product from Russia built by the company Idol

5:42

Why a “combiner model” might someday work

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2025/11/15

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. Together, they form a kind of digital wasteland of stranded intelligence. These models aren’t all obsolete;

5:08

The edge of realized technology

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2025/11/08

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 about the intersection of technology and modernity until the singularity. For better or worse, modernity’s

6:56

Spooky Halloween edition: When Satoshi-Era Wallets...

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2025/10/31

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 third of all bitcoin has never moved [1].These dormant or maybe abandoned coins shape both the scarcity

5:04

AI Is Burning Through Graphics Cards

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2025/10/24

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 clock is ticking on graphics cards being used for AI inference. The current generation of GPUs was never

6:40

Social media stopped being social

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2025/10/17

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 up to par within the 208th Lindahl Letter publication. You have come to expect better from me and last

3:33

Building with constant model churn

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2025/10/10

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 Lindahl Letter publication. A new edition arrives every Friday. This week the topic under consideration for

5:52

Enforcing AI standards without exception

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2025/10/03

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 office that said, “We either have standards or we don’t.” It’s not a great mystery how that particular

7:13

The Great Tokenapocalypse

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2025/09/26

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. Almost as out of control as the sunk cost of data centers that will probably be regretted at some point

3:53

Apple’s Hidden AI Strategy

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2025/09/19

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 just the latest supply chain management initiative in terms of managing tokens. It may reflect a deliberate

5:43

Context window garbage collection

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2025/09/12

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 the point where we need to think about how context window garbage collection explores the deeper process

4:57

Portable knowledge sharding

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2025/09/05

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 receiving a prompt or a packaged transferable output. This week’s focus is on how knowledge can be broken

4:01

Personalized context bubbles

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2025/08/29

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; no foundation model pun intended. I even talked about it on YouTube during a recent Nelscast episode. It

3:02

Context window fragmentation

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2025/08/22

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. Something that would stand out and be interesting as a point of conjecture. Instead of just digging into the

5:00

My 200th Lindahl Letter Explained

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2025/08/15

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 topic under consideration for the Lindahl Letter is, “My 200th Lindahl Letter Explained.”My very first

5:32

Machines that build machines

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2025/08/01

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 computing, machines building machines, and agents taking action. We are now shifting from quantum related

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