Libido Sciendi
The desire to understand the world deeply. Deep dives on AI & complex adaptive systems.
Essays
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Four Books, One Synthesis: Can We Power the Intelligence Revolution? Mar 2026 Energy, compute and the thermodynamic ceiling of AI scaling. · 18 min
Google AI: Mathematically Wrong, Empirically Right Jan 2026 Why Google's approach works despite breaking the rules. · 12 min
Top reads
Market Sizing for Founders A practical framework for sizing markets when you're building something new. · 10 min
On Systemic Errors: Probabilistic LLMs at Scale When your system is wrong 2% of the time but processes a billion requests. · 10 min
Surviving the Reset: A Framework for AI Competitive Advantage What separates the companies that will survive the correction. · 15 min
Journal
all → Mar 24, 2026 Q1 2026: AI's Industrialisation, VC Bifurcation, and the French Tech Paradox
The headline this quarter: AI's industrialisation is well underway, but the gap between what models can do and what enterprises actually deploy keeps widening. Capability accelerated roughly 2x in… read →
Mar 23, 2026 AI-Driven Drug Discovery: From Concept to Execution
The field crossed a critical threshold in June 2025: the first peer-reviewed Phase IIa results for a molecule where both target and compound were discovered entirely by generative AI. Insilico… read →
Mar 22, 2026 Molecular Farming and the Reinvention of Crop Protection
The crop protection market is undergoing a compulsory transformation. On one side, EU regulations increasingly cap active ingredient volumes per hectare (Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009), and farmers… read →
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