Writing
Artificial intelligence
17 September 2026
Jev matched a thinking model on a real data-interpretation task at 1% error, in seconds instead of minutes, but only after the questions were redesigned; the questions and the code did most of the work.
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16 September 2026
Typed, calibrated, parallel decisions at 100 milliseconds are a more natural unit of enterprise AI than generated prose, and they collapse the cost of intelligence inside a decision process by orders of magnitude.
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10 September 2026
The bar on Catholics and Jews advising the King on bishops is not an insult to Catholics and Jews. It is the seam that holds the established church apart from the state. If you want to unpick it, say so, and let us argue.
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8 September 2026
Apply your Moroccan standard, or your Turkish one, or your Crimean one, but apply one standard.
→ Artificial intelligence
1 September 2026
By treating frontier models as components to buy, benchmark and replace, Apple is betting its AI advantage will come from silicon, privacy and the integration layer.
→ Artificial intelligence
31 August 2026
Promise 4x, charge 2x, get ~1.5x — not a great way to get trust.
→ Community
30 August 2026
I would focus on the places where British Jews need practical change: workplaces, public institutions and universities.
→ Insurance & risk
30 August 2026
Three months after rejoining Swiss Re, some reflections on four years in a small company, what they taught me, and why an institution I already trusted was the right place to use it.
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28 August 2026
I want British Jews to do more than feel secure enough to endure. I want us to live openly, confidently and joyfully, as the whole Jewish tribe.
→ Insurance & risk
24 August 2026
If AI takes over routine underwriting, the answer is not to preserve a hand-underwriting quota: it is to route exceptions to humans and make replay the training ground.
→ Insurance & risk
21 August 2026
Firms never paid for junior training: it was a free byproduct of low-value work that AI has now taken, and no individual firm has an incentive to restart funding the talent pipeline.
→ Community
16 July 2026
I am not asking you to defend the Jews. I am asking you to defend the establishment, and the un-radical proposition that the church of the whole nation cannot pick which of the nation's minorities it will hear
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13 July 2026
As an Orthodox Jew I had to wait 18 minutes into the match before turning on the TV – but after that I was cheering just as loud as any other fan
→ Artificial intelligence
12 June 2026
Anyone trying to get something done inside a company faces an implicit choice: how much to settle before they start.
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28 May 2026
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11 May 2026
Anyone watching the UK bulk annuity market has been turning over the Standard Life carve-out for the past few weeks (I know, this is a mass appeal article).
→ Insurance & risk
7 May 2026
The migration of long-duration life insurance liabilities from listed insurers into private capital structures is one of the largest reallocations of financial capital underway in the developed world.
→ Artificial intelligence
5 May 2026
Anyone using AI – specifically, LLMs – eventually has to deal with the same question.
→ Community · Note
28 April 2026
Here's a timeline for you — from a Guardian column minimising hate crimes against a Jewish-linked bakery to 'Columnist of the Year' six weeks later.
→ Artificial intelligence
13 April 2026
Cursor's maker Anysphere announced a $2.3b Series D in November 2025 - $29.3b post-money valuation, past a billion in annualised revenue and accelerating. Bloomberg reported it topped $2b by February 2026.
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1 April 2026
Tonight we sit down to the Seder. We'll eat the matzah, dip the herbs, sing the songs.
→ Artificial intelligence
26 March 2026
Yesterday I posted about TurboQuant, a Google Research paper that compresses the main memory bottleneck in large language models by over 6x.
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23 March 2026
Every Sunday evening, between the ages of about eight and fifteen, I went to a Jewish youth group in west London.
→ Community · Note
12 November 2020
A mental image of the Jewish intellectual space — and what it meant to lose the person who stood by the open French window between Jewish and non-Jewish thought.
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