9 June 2026

24 links · Tuesday

The Future Is Undecidable. Duty Is Not.

A follow-up to the India 2047 song essay, moving from Godel, Turing, and the halting problem toward anxiety, controllability, the Gita, Stoicism, and the old problem of duty.

SQL

SQL is the language for databases. A SQL program is also called a query. Each query takes one or more tables as input, and produces one table as output. A table is a collection of rows, where each row has the same number of columns. Each column has a name and …

Reading of OpenAI's Self-Improving Tax Agents | Daniel Olshansky

When I first saw the title of OpenAI’s blog, I wasn’t too excited. Here it is: Building self-improving tax agents with Codex. Tax agents don’t sound exciting. Everything is self-improving. I got it. But this short post is a masterclass in practical, hands-on l…

Fixing a stuck Ollama runner and building a GPU watchdog – blog

If you self-host LLMs, at some point, you’ll likely experience a stuck GPU consuming significant electricity for long periods of time. This is my summary of discovering the problem & then implementing automation that corrects the issue. I want automation to …

invlpg – Premature Optimization is Fun Sometimes

A colleague of mine was recently discussing a connectivity monitoring system he is working on with me. It’s nothing fancy, just sending ICMP Echo Requests to a couple of different servers, and monitoring latency and dropped packet averages over 1-minute, 5-min…

The process was the point

I have been feeling that I am not enjoying the process lately, I am not having fun while I am working, previously I used to think about the problems even on weekends while out with friends, because they were my problems and I used to own them end to end, solvi…

Performance mantras

Most advice on performance will only help you to get better incrementally. Here are some mantras I think are undervalued for true breakthroughs 🧘.

The economics of speculative decoding

Two underexplored axes: what MoE routing does to the decode roofline, and how compressed attention takes away the slack that used to make speculated tokens free.

Cannibalism

For a long time the tech industry revelled in the distruption of what it saw as old, legacy industries. But now, as AI takes over tech, we’re now starting to eat our own, and it’s dark and ironic.