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i was addicted to instagram for about a month. it upended my life enough that i realized that i was living with something new-an undesirable habit. and once i realized this, it seemed like it would be wise to try to address it or at least think about it. easier said than done.
Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the geniu...
Olle's Web Ventures
Everything lives on a manifold
In a land bereft of a canonical "killer app" web framework or two, one must think about the what, why, how, where of all the moving parts. Out here, one must become a student of web framework architecture in addition to web application architecture. For here, in Clojure-land, the two are one. ☯
*if you include word2vec.
Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games
I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.
I recently went on a nice long SCUBA diving trip with my wife and daughters. Lots of diving implies lots of showers, and lots of showers means lots of shower-thoughts! [1] An especially interesting one I had turned into a nice way to visualize some aspects of the Collatz Conjecture.
💡Update May 21, 2025: I've written a new detailed analysis of the heap dump dataset itself: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool This morning,
This has been a very long time coming, but finally, after a marathon effort, the brand new Have I Been Pwned website is now live! Feb last year is when I made the first commit to the public repo for the rebranded service, and we soft-launched the new brand
ABOUT ME My name is Helmut and I was born in 1980 in Graz (Austria). Trains were my hobby since childhood. My 2nd hobby is travelling. Du...
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an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
Transformer-based large language models are relatively easy to understand. You break language down into a finite set of “tokens” (words or sub-word components…
In the 1960s, AI researchers tried - and failed - to deliver machine translation of Russian to English. Overly confident researchers, lazy journalists and far too optimistic tech utopianists all built expectations that couldn't be met. Eventually, the lack of results put a stop to the previously generous funding. The…
If you’re still using IP geolocation to decide what language to show, stop screwing around. It’s a broken assumption dressed up as a feature.
Side projects I have shipped, sold, or shut down, from modern.css to older WordPress experiments.
The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ...
What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset
I’ve been doing relatively frequent sight reading practice using an iPad app for four years. Here’s how I’ve automated some of the steps and what I’ve learned from the experience.
Every software project needs to represent the reality of the business he is embedded in. The way we can represent reality as limited rational beings is through propositions, i.e, declarative statements that affirm or deny something about reality. When a collection of such propositions is stored in a computer system…
I wrote an MCP server to give LLMs read-only access to my emails. Here is the chat log.
The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and more
In this article, I talk about an inherent trade-off in TypeScript's type system: stricter types are safer, but often more complex. I describe a phenomenon I call "hyper-typing", where libraries - in pursuit of perfect type safety - end up with overly complex types that are hard-to-understand, produce cryptic errors…
Well it happened. PG&E has dropped the facade of necessary rate increases because of system upgrades, and they have come out and said what…
