education
The Future of Education
The half-life of a learned skill is shrinking; adaptability is the only safety.
Yan Nuriyev
I'm a CTO based in New York City. My background is in banking, trading, fintech, renewable energy and engineering.
crypto
Why Banks Need to Worry About Crypto Again
After a decade of mutual suspicion, traditional finance and crypto are converging. Stablecoins reached $33T in volume, major banks have embraced blockchain, and DeFi is quietly building the rails that will reshape lending and payments. A banker's perspective on what's next.
ai
Scaling Your Thinking with Korum
Korum is an experimental app that transforms solitary AI chats into group debates where dissent is expected and objectivity is forged through friction.
ai
How "Vibe Coding" is Rewriting Software Development
The 'build vs. buy' debate is changing. Vibe Coding introduces a third option: Generate. AI is making it economically viable to solve niche business problems in-house with custom point solutions, rather than buying expensive enterprise platforms.
Humanoid Robots
Are Humanoid Robots the Answer to the Global Worker Shortage?
A perfect storm of AI advancement, deglobalization, & an aging workforce creates a critical worker shortage. Humanoid robots are no longer sci-fi, but an essential solution to this unprecedented economic challenge. I examine the leading contenders in the field and their cutting-edge technology.
AI
LLMs Were Just the Warm-Up. AI's Next Revolution is World Models
While today's Large Language Models learn statistical patterns from text, World Models are designed to understand the underlying physics and causal relationships of the real world. We make a case for World Models and look at cutting edge research from Meta, NVIDIA and Google.
ai
The Acceleration of AI Timelines: Mapping the New Exponential
The uncomfortable truth: if we transported someone from 2020 to witness today's AI systems, they would think we've achieved AGI. Yet we keep moving the goalposts, blind to the acceleration happening right before our eyes. We cover 6 trends that are shaping AI in 2025.
AI Reasoning
AI Reasoning, Inference-Time Scaling and DeepSeek R1
How do we teach machines to truly think? Recent breakthroughs in AI reasoning - exemplified by DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI's o1 - show how models can now tackle complex problems through step-by-step deliberation. Explore how this cognitive shift is transforming the future of artificial intelligence.
artificial intelligence
Reasoning Without Words
Chain of Continuous Thought approach solves complex problems faster and more efficiently than traditional, language based AI.
agentics
AI Agents: The Future of Software
The economic impact of AI agents will be transformative. By automating complex tasks, enhancing productivity, and enabling new business models, AI agents have the potential to create a new wave of technological innovation and reshape the global economy.
ai
Bringing the World to Your Ears
AIVision is an example of multi-modal AI applied to the real-world use-case of visual accessibility. It narrates day-to-day experiences, describing what is around in near real-time with a human voice. AIVision runs in a web browser on any device, without the need to install an app.
research paper
Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
Google DeepMind proposes a new method to induce reasoning in AI without complex prompt engineering.