Dotan Di Castro
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Writings

Notes and thoughts on AI, robotics, and autonomous systems.

  • The Collapse and the Rise of the Stack: Why SMEs Are Becoming Vertical
    קריסתה ועלייתה של החברה הורטיקלית
    For fifty years, spanning the whole stack was the privilege of giants — because vertical integration required armies. AI is dissolving that constraint: the giants get leaner, small teams go vertical, and the vertical SME becomes the default shape of serious industry. (English and Hebrew.)
  • The Surgeon's New Hands: Autonomy, AI, and the Future of Medical Robotics
    הידיים החדשות של המנתח
    The slow climb from teleoperation to autonomy in the operating room — the surgical autonomy ladder, the leading robotics companies and where they sit on it, where venture money is flowing, and why the decisive asset is the surgical-data corpus, not the hardware. (English and Hebrew.)
  • Analogies of AI: the Final Ring of AI?
    אנלוגיות של AI: השלב האחרון?
    Stefan Banach's ladder of mathematical seeing — analogies between theorems, proofs, theories, and finally between analogies — read against the kinds of patterns modern AI now finds at scale. (English and Hebrew.)
  • What Kolmogorov Saw: On Compression, LLMs, and the Length of Understanding
    מה שקולמוגורוב ראה
    A short biography of Andrey Kolmogorov, the intuition behind Kolmogorov complexity, its connection to the universal Turing machine, and why it gives the cleanest frame we have for talking about both LLMs and human minds. (English and Hebrew.)
  • What Mr. Kidder Knew: A 1941 Story and the Shape of Agentic AI
    מה שמר קידר ידע
    Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God" (1941) already imagined the shape of agentic AI — and one or two other things besides. (English and Hebrew.)
  • The Transformation of the Social Graph
    התמורה בגרף החברתי
    From tribes to corporations to fleets of agents — how the social structure of cooperative work is quietly inverting. (English and Hebrew.)
  • Memory Between Ears and Stone: The Evolutionary Story of External Memory
    זכרון בין אוזניים לאבן
    The evolutionary story of external memory — from cave paintings and broken branches to language models and robotics. (English and Hebrew.)
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