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At the heart of both philosophy and computer science lies a single, crucial question: How do we build a model of the world? Plato and Aristotle approached this question from completely opposite directions, and their answers map almost perfectly onto modern programming and machine learning approaches. Plato’s Perfect Forms in Your Code Plato believed everything we see is an imperfect copy of a perfect, unchanging form. Take a circle you draw on paper, according to Plato, it’s just an imperfect representation of a perfect circle that exists as an abstract form, with exact mathematical properties no physical circle can fully achieve. ...

OpenAI recently released the GPT-5 family, introducing three distinct options for Pro users: GPT-5 Fast, GPT-5 Thinking, and GPT-5 Pro. While it’s common knowledge that GPT-5 Fast handles simple tasks and GPT-5 Pro tackles complex ones, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear to many users. This post provides a concise explanation of how each variant operates and when to use them effectively. GPT-5 Fast For the context of this article, we will use GPT-5 Fast as our base model, think of it as a black box optimized for speed, good old LLM. When you submit a query, it processes the request and delivers an answer quickly without extensive deliberation. ...