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In contrast to intensional type theory, which is a type theory containing an identity type x=yx=y whose elements are identifications of xx and yy, unintentional type theory has a mistaken identity type x≈?yx \overset{?}{\approx} y whose elements are inadverten…
Changelog 32 - Slick Seventeen, Awesome Applications, Universal USB Tools
You know what's funnier than 24?
Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group. We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working to improve the IRC protocol.
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When you disagree with someone, there are two paths forward. The first is to try to engage with what they’re saying: what their reasons are, whether their…
Build your own decision model
"System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer. Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Output to constrain the output to guarantee…
A city-building game about trying to get housing built in San Francisco. By Oliver Sin.
I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control. That fact has been lodged in my head, because given its inherent complexity I have trouble imagining …
Bit of a niche link, but I've been waiting for this for a couple of days - I even told ChatGPT to check for it: Clone https://github.com/actions/python-versions and git pull …
this is kinda a sequel-ish to my previous post, in which i go over the math_errhandling macro, and how math error handling is done in glibc and musl (as well as how it's specified in the standard).
Two megabytes can still mean slow downloads, expensive JavaScript, wasted mobile data, and a page that depends on ideal conditions.
Introducing BreadBowl-Embed, a new late-interaction architecture for embeddings: 16 routing–value slots per passage, so the same index can retrieve and rerank, with no cross-encoder and no second pass over the text.
Pushing Parquet and ClickHouse to their limits to minimize bytes/row on trillions of GPS pings
Mocks encode our assumptions, which might differ from reality.
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Let an LLM generate the questions to ask Jev for a given query. See how well that works as a reranker.
Why a load exclusive (ldaxr) raised a Data Abort on real Raspberry Pi 5 hardware but not in QEMU, and what cacheability has to do with AArch64 exclusive accesses.
In our previous article, we trained a small selector for a single decision inside dksplit, our word splitter for domain names, and tested Jev on the same task: it does...
In contrast to intensional type theory, which is a type theory containing an identity type x=yx=y whose elements are identifications of xx and yy, unintentional type theory has a mistaken identity type x≈?yx \overset{?}{\approx} y whose elements are inadverten…
I’ve been hiring software engineers for the last 8 years. I’ve reviewed hundreds of home assignments as part of hiring process. In the recently introduced AI era, it is more and more believed that hiring assignments are useless because candidate can just feed …
How frontier labs, neolabs, and investors can all win
I cancelled my Claude subscription today because I can't use my purchased tokens in my harness of choice. I also couldn't use them with an LLM proxy server, either. Sure, I can do some hacky things to make it work, but it's not supported and I risk
In the last few years I've seen people struggling to offer some value through the use of AI Agents. Across examples I noticed a common shape in them, a...
The website for deadSimpleTech, a human-centric tech consultancy based in Wellington
How every 3B workflow step gets a durable, versioned filesystem, from a gVisor gofer that hands the sandbox a local file to a storage engine with snapshots, forks, an LSM index, and S3 as a cold tier.
A look inside the per-language scores of the MTEB leaderboard, with Indic languages as the test case.
Two ways to put Jev inside an agent harness: checking step completion and making bounded business decisions. Experiments with Proceda cut main-LLM calls by almost a third.
A load balancer forgets an idle connection, a connection pool remembers it, and the first request after a quiet stretch gets a TCP reset the client logs as a 502 from a service that never saw it. AWS documents the behavior at 350 seconds, without a FIN. We rep…
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Can LLMs make decisions without extra fine-tuning? Local tests of Qwen, Gemma, Jeff, and Laya explore whether a workflow needs a dedicated decision model.
I got curious about how Octopath Traveler calculates Therion's steal rates, so I dug into the game's code to find out exactly what's going on behind the scenes.
On the Nature of the Swarm
Why scaling inference ends in many agents.
We ran Claude Code and Codex against the same ten MCP servers at pinned versions. Five features split them, and they never failed the same one.
The checkable rules each AI host applies to an MCP server, from tool-name length to mandatory annotations and timeouts, where they conflict, and which tools validate against them. As of 1 October 2026.
[6 min read] A couple of weeks ago, I gave my keynote, “The Most Valuable Engineer Isn’t Shipping Features,” at Rails World 2026 in Austin, Texas. If you ...
New users don't churn like your total user base: they leave FAST, and early. So "early" is where most of your activation leverage lives.