# karen hao (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover karen hao. Page: Feed: --- ## [How well does your AI know you? More than you think--not!](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/how-well-does-your-ai-know-you-more) _2026-07-24 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ Prompted AI to tell me everything it has figured out about me that I never actually stated and got the answers that surprised me. ## [Let Up Be Down](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/let-up-be-down) _2026-07-05 · James Tasse's Blog_ In Project Hail Mary, the main character Dr. Ryland Grace is on a mission to save the Sun (and by extension Earth) from the star-eating Astrophage microbe. Grace then meets Rocky, an alien who is try… ## [#BOOKREVIEW: Strangers and Silence: What Belle Burden’s Marriage Memoir Teaches Us About Telling the Truth](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/bookreview-strangers-and-silence) _2026-07-04 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ When Marriage Becomes a Memoir: Reading Belle Burden’s Strangers ## [#BOOKREVIEW: Educated and the Cost of Truth](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/bookreview-educated-and-the-cost) _2026-06-25 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ How Tara Westover’s Memoir Turns “Education” Into a Slow, Painful Reckoning ## [NEWSLETTER #41: Turned 53: Nineteen Reasons to Live](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/newsletter-41-53-nineteen-reasons) _2026-06-19 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ My standard, annual reflection of another year on this Earth. ## [#RANDOMTHOUGHTS: Surrendering to AI slop, and the end of human creativity, not!](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/randomthoughts-surrendering-to-ai) _2026-06-12 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ Lazy is what allowing AI do, what a human being can do better albeit mindful and with soul ## [Why We Write](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/why-we-write) _2026-05-26 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ My thoughts after a long lull of not writing. ## [Meowlin](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/meowlin) _2026-05-13 · James Tasse's Blog_ You may have heard of Merlin, a fantastic mobile app that can identify birds in real time. ## [Newsletter #40: Recent Realizations and Starting 2026](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/newsletter-40-recent-realizations) _2026-02-27 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ Writing my thoughts, so I don't forget them. ## [Abstraction — Part II: Gen AI and the WYSIWYG Revolution](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/abstraction-part-ii-gen-ai-and-the-wysiwyg-revolution) _2026-01-27 · James Tasse's Blog_ In the last post, I traced the path of abstraction from the days when machines were programmed with machine code (often represented in binary) to the dawn of Assembly code and even higher level langu… ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iWMT8zJl8CGx) _2026-01-26 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Abstraction—Part I: Road to the WYSIWYG](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/abstraction-part-i-road-to-the-WYSIWYG) _2026-01-23 · James Tasse's Blog_ \*Karen Thacker was looking at a Xerox Alto personal computer, which her husband Chuck had designed. The machine was running Bravo, a program that Chuck’s Xerox PARC colleagues Charles Simonyi and But… ## [Git and Backups](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/git-and-backups) _2026-01-02 · James Tasse's Blog_ Contents ## [Newsletter #39: The year 2025 was bitter and sweet and more](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/newsletter-39-the-year-2025-was-bitter) _2025-12-26 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ A year-end report, reflection of the year that was. ## [Newsletter #38: Going Gaga over Analog](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/newsletter-38-going-gaga-over-analog) _2025-12-21 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ Things that got my attention. ## [What Nvidia’s AI Revolution Really Teaches Us](https://erwinoliva.substack.com/p/what-nvidias-ai-revolution-really) _2025-11-26 · Erwin Oliva · Short Sentences_ How Jensen Huang and Nvidia turned suffering into the spark of AI innovation ## [Book Review: Empire of AI by Karen Hao](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/book-review-empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao) _2025-09-04 · James Tasse's Blog_ In her nonfiction book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, Karen Hao seeks to draw parallels between Old World empires like those of the British, French, & Spanish and the… ## [Em dashing](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/em-dashing) _2025-06-17 · James Tasse's Blog_ If you're like me, the em dash (—) represents an irresistible (lazy?) way to break up sentences. But, frustratingly, it's not super easy to use in every context. For example, MS Word and Google Docs… ## [Docs as Tests: Part II—The How](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/docs-as-tests-part-ii-the-how) _2025-06-02 · James Tasse's Blog_ This is part two in a series of posts describing the value and implementation of Docs as Tests. ## [Docs as Tests: Part I—On a High (Level)](https://jamestasse.tech/blog/posts/docs-as-tests-on-a-high-level) _2025-05-29 · James Tasse's Blog_ Docs as Tests: the series! OK the name needs work, but this is my first post in what I expect to be a series of \[at least 2\] Docs as Tests posts (and probably some videos as well).