Featured post what's this? ✨ When the Aliens Finally Came to Visit First contact failed because aliens couldn't prove they weren't robots. A reCAPTCHA sent them back to the stars. Cloudflare has blocked every other attempts.
Joining Cursor I’m joining Cursor (soon to be part of SpaceX) to work on Cloud Agents. I’ll still be managing state, only agents this time instead of databases.
The joy of simple computing Progress, these days, seems to be equivalent to ever-more polished interfaces; more whitespace around buttons, glow, glassy, or frosty effects; smooth animations even on websites. For a long time, I appreciated this: using a sleek, pretty (in modern terms...
I Benchmarked Local LLMs on the Laptop I Already Have Local-model benchmarks all seem to run on 128GB Macs I don't own. I ran five current open models on my 16GB M1 Pro against 21 real tasks, SQL and bug fixes and quick lookups, and priced the same work at API rates. The models did better than I expected, bu...
Dark mode toggles: two states are enough • Lea Verou Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards two-state toggles is based on poor implementations.
The dumbest ransomware I've ever seen | Mr.UNIX A few days ago, I saw a Facebook post from an anonymous person who shared an APK for an app they claimed was an AI teaching app for high school students. The …
The Norway Problem in Yaml Norway's ISO country code is NO. Under the YAML 1.1 spec, unquoted no (case-insensitive, along with yes, on, off, y, n, true, false) is treated as a boolean and not a string. You can see the problem h
Distorted Reality When you divide performance by salary, being expensive looks like underperforming. The metric quietly shifts from impact to intelligence per dollar, and everyone reading it ends up believing something that is not true.
Continual Learning Needs More Nuance (This blog post is derived from this video response on my YouTube channel.) Dwarkesh Patel has been making the case for continual learning for a while, both with guests on his podcast and, most recently, in a blog post and an accompanying vi...
No, local models will not win Every time a new open-weight AI model is released, people say that local models are the future. Why spend billions of dollars building out datacenters when everyone will just be able to run AI models on their laptops or phones? I think this idea is doomed...
Claude Code self-improved on business workflows through conversation, not memories Told only to get better, Claude Code raised held-out success from 34% to 44%. Ablations locate the improvement in the conversation, not the memory files it wrote.
Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect data on sex and gender, and it causes huge practical pro...
When longing becomes hate the author muddles throught thoughts about having lost something they never had, what could have been and how disappointment can lead to deep frustration
Patrick Colm Audley — Hacker · Full-Spectrum Technologist · Polymath Seasoned technologist. AI/ML, security architecture, and capital markets. Thirty years of international startup experience.
Humanity renamed genes because of Excel Science adapted to the program: gene symbols were renamed so Excel would stop turning them into dates.
Illinois HB5511: What It Means for Linux and Open Source Illinois signed HB5511 on July 31. Past the TikTok and Instagram headlines is a mandate for operating systems, with no exemption for open source.
Escaping the LLM Coding Rat Race There's only one winner in the AI coding rat race: your inference provider.
Agents remind me of sculpting Imagine taking a big rock and slowly removing pieces from it until it becomes something meaningful or useful.
Tokenisation: Who decides what a token is anyway? — idlemachines How does a neural network understand text? It's a question so basic, you can be forgiven for forgetting about it. Words and letters are human-readable, but are discrete (even if infinite in combination) and not compatible with the continuous representatio...
Watch out for cache read costs For long agentic sessions cache reads are most of the bill, not input or output tokens. KV caches have shrunk dramatically while cache read pricing has barely moved.
With Flying Pen, When Mortals Sleep It was in that moment, reading those words, that I had a new quest. I needed to see this letter. Not a translation on a page, but the real thing.
How I explored Tokyo and found peace there 🇯🇵 On my second trip to Japan, I left Tokyo's tourist trail behind and found calm in daily rituals, quiet neighbourhoods and unexpected encounters.
I Used an LLM to Quit Vaping | samscript Summarising the books didn't work. Having something to argue with at midnight did. What LLMs were actually useful for when I quit nicotine.
Drive, meaning and status in the face of ASI abundance What happens to human life when economic necessity disappears?
ChatGPT Already Knows Who It'll Recommend Before It Searches — Suganthan ChatGPT writes brand names into its own search query before it fetches a single page. I read the traffic across 60 conversations to work out when it happens, what being named is worth, and what actually gets you onto that list.
every company needs a cassandra an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
I've vibe coded an application to see what it's like I’ve always wanted to write a simple, custom CLI application that would let me log amateur radio contacts quickly and easily. The focus was on logging satellite contacts and the desire to avoid using a database. Instead, the log entries should be edited, ...
How I built a private travel journal for iPhone How Travel Log turns occasional location updates and photo metadata into places, trips, and an exploration map completely on device.
Catching lightning in a VM — Peter Graugaard How we built an open-source deterministic hypervisor in four months on a $200 budget.
We're not done with point clouds If you wait long enough to solve a problem, someone else might just solve it for you.
Agents Can Talk, But They Can't Commit MCP, A2A, and AP2 standardized how agents find each other and speak. None of them standardize what happens when step four fails and steps one through three already happened.
tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.
Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open agentic model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, optimized for always-on local workflows on consumer hardware.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans | Claude by Anthropic Claude Code will soon run auto mode by default for Pro, Max, and Team plans, enabling longer-running autonomous work, and catching more dangerous commands.
When the Aliens Finally Came to Visit First contact failed because aliens couldn't prove they weren't robots. A reCAPTCHA sent them back to the stars. Cloudflare has blocked every other attempts.
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
Failing after Success What are you supposed to do after you've created the most successful product? Not just successful, but the most useful. In an ideal world, you would sail into the sunset and enjoy your riches. In this
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | TechCrunch On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
