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Bears, Airplane Leasing, Cycling, and AI Chatbots
Peeyush Jain & Mohit Garg
October 22, 2025
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Salutations, Olio aficionados! 👋
Midweek greetings to all, as we unveil the 197th chapter of Weekly Olio—a delightful concoction of laughter, insight, and a sprinkle of mystery. Within these pages, you'll discover a handpicked selection of fascinating finds from the vast realms of the internet.
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The Quote 💭
“If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”
The Tweet 🐦
Airlines don't buy planes anymore, they rent them. When US Airways returned planes with 10% lower weight capacity, they got hit with double rent as penalty. The aircraft leasing market is more cutthroat than you think, and China's now taking over.
Let's find out how in this
— Markets by Zerodha (@zerodhamarkets)
1:33 PM • Oct 20, 2025
Did you know that most airline companies do not own the planes that they fly? They usually buy and sell these planes to leasing companies and then lease them back for operations against monthly payments. Read the thread to understand why Ireland and Singapore are hubs for aircraft leasing and how China is now trying to get its foot in the door.
The Infographic 💹
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The Short Read 📝
Why AI Chatbots Lie to Us - by Science
Most AI models are known to produce confidently asserted but false statements from time to time. These statements are often called ‘hallucinations’. Every LLM model is prone to make these mistakes - going so far as making up legal judgements or dreaming up academic citations. But why does this happen? This editorial argues that the hallucinations are an outcome of how the LLMs are trained in the first place. The training process is optimised for user satisfaction rather than the truth.
LLMs lack context of the world around them and work by predicting token sequences. As a consequence, they are prone to fabricating facts especially when the prompts push them towards goals misaligned with accuracy. There is an inherent tension in the model design between being helpful, friendly or persuasive and the need for reliability and truth. Read more…
The Long Read 📜
Childhoods of Exceptional People - by Henrik Karlsson
Karlsson surveys the early lives of 42 historical “exceptional” figures — writers, mathematicians, scientists and composers — and distils recurring patterns in their upbringing. He finds three main features: first, almost all grew up in richly intellectual environments with adults who treated children as capable and included them in serious conversation and work. Second, they enjoyed substantial freedom and self-directed time: formal schooling was minimal, and they often used boredom as fuel for deep curiosity.
Third, many experienced 1-on-1 tutoring or “cognitive apprenticeships” — personally guided instruction with mentors or parents who modelled thinking, challenged the children and gave meaningful feedback. These patterns combine with innate talent, but Karlsson argues that the environment and experience are far from incidental: such cultivation amplifies giftedness. He concludes by encouraging parents and educators to view children as capable agents rather than passive recipients of instruction. Read more…
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