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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

For ex - the memory system would ingest the raw turn, extract the state delta, reconcile the entity-constraint map, and throw the high token conversational fluff away. 10/10

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

would be interesting to see more efficient memory architectures for agents based on neuroscience primitives. 9/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

if biological organisms tried to hoard uncompressed sensory buffers the way general RAG systems hoard chat logs, one could presume that the sheer cognitive (and metabolic) overhead would collapse the organism within hours. 8/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

for episodic memory, you retain the geometric structure and causal gist of an event, while your cortex resynthesizes the surface details on the fly. intrinsically, episodic memory is reconstructive simulation - makes sense from a compute efficiency + generalization/transferability perspective 7/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

the hippocampus and entorhinal grid networks discard ~99% of the perceptual noise in real time, compiling raw experience into a compressed, topological belief graph: coordinate systems, relational invariants, and (updated) priors. 6/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

when you recall a conversation from last Wed, your brain isn't streaming an archived audio file or re-reading a transcript. 5/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

biological brains have zero tape-recorder machinery. human memory is an active simulation engine and not a ‘digital hard drive hoarding verbatim sensory bitstreams 4/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

But in Othello-GPT, the network never memorized move syntax. probing the residual stream revealed an emergent coordinate geometry of the actual board. Anthropic’s SAE work shows the same grammar - activations resolve into sparse, orthogonal feature subspaces, instead of messy string buffers 3/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

most memory harnesses today are just vector search over raw dialogue turns, dumping unparsed tokens into the prompt window. it is mostly ~noise: you are burning compute forcing the model to re-derive the semantic state from scratch on every single forward pass. 2/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 30/08/2026

the biggest mistake in building agents today is confusing conversation history with actual state. searching past chat logs is not memory, and building systems around transcript replay guarantees bloated, unreliable agents 1/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 24/02/2025

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 24/02/2025

Topic Research Overview by Nexus

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 24/02/2025

What differentiates Nexus is it offers new, interactive ways to engage with papers—from visualizing how research fields evolve and connect through our interactive Domain Evolution feature to distilling papers into clear, digestible insights with our Research Synthesis feature. 3/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 24/02/2025

No more are the days of oscillating between Google Search and academic databases to discover papers and learn about a topic. With Nexus’ Topic Research Overview, you can extract a summary, list of methodologies, insights, research gaps, and sub-domains on any topic. 2/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 24/02/2025

🔬 Introducing Nexus by Mylon: an AI-Native Research Discovery Platform. Nexus enables researchers to search over 250 million academic papers, using AI agents to find the most reputable and relevant research. 1/n

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 10/12/2024

I asked LuFlot (lucianofloridi.com/bot) to explain to me Floridi’s concept of the Levels of Abstraction. I then plugged in the answer into ElevenLabs to narrate LuFlot’s response, and overlayed the audio with video clips I created through Runway. See the result. Quite remarkable

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 19/11/2024

Happy Birthday Google Scholar 🎂🎉 🧪 Google Scholar, the largest scholarly search engine, marks 20 years as a key tool in science. But with AI-powered competitors like Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex emerging, its dominance faces new challenges. #AcademicSky

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Can Google Scholar survive the AI revolution?

The largest scholarly search engine is celebrating its 20th birthday, but AI-driven competitors offer advantages.

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 19/11/2024

Thanks for sharing this Nature article, @smcgrath.phd. It’ll be fascinating to see AI-powered tools augment the efficiency and perhaps even the seminality of the research process.

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 18/11/2024

Tomorrow, we at Encode Justice are hosting summit on ending deepfake sexual abuse in schools, alongside Francesca Mani, a student who was victimized by deepfake porn. Speakers: Sens. Cruz, Klobuchar, and Durbin + Snap’s Platform Safety Lead, RAINN’s VP of Public Policy, and more! Register below:

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 18/11/2024

Rhodes Scholars 2025 list just came out. Congratulations to all of the scholars. Great to see 2 Yale students on the list! www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media2/xipjs...

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Yale Digital Ethics Center (DEC) @yaledec.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 Congratulations to our Director's Fellow @nicolasgertler.com for being awarded the prestigious Slavin Fellowship! The Fellowship supports dedicated students in their entrepreneurial pursuits and has only been awarded to 54 students since 2015. Well done, Nicolas!

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Emmie Hine @emmiehine.com · 18/11/2024

Put together a couple of starter packs for the digital ethics/Internet research crowd! First up: Digital Ethics Center of the Universe feat. the brilliant researchers of the @yaledec.bsky.social (and friends): bsky.app/starter-pack... #philtech #philsci #AcademicSky #ai

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Nicolas Gertler @nicolasgertler.com · 17/11/2024

Thrilled to be awarded the Slavin Family Foundation fellowship, which provides mentorship and a grant of $5,000 to students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. A huge thank you to @floridi.bsky.social and @yaledec.bsky.social for their support.

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I just published "On number 100, or Claude’s homage to Queneau" (series: notes to myself) link.medium.com/nDETvGucAOb

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