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Young Money – the new book by my friend Jack Raines – is subtitled A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties. Ostensibly it’s a manual of sorts for how to manage life and career during the first ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Dan Page, Global Head of Media and Licensing Partnerships at TikTok, at Cafe Luxxe in Brentwood. He had coffee. I had Hibiscus tea. We were introduced by a mutual friend and ...
Stolen Authority/images/stolen-authority.webp/images/stolen-authority.webp We need to label this parasitic marketing technique with an adequately strong term. Stolen Authority. From stolen Valorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_valor It's the deplorable tactic of doing an intro into a famous...
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May, but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents. Given my proclivity ...
Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably specced ...
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into ...
Gordon Brander writes: The thing about computers is that they can do anything you wish, so long as you specify your wish in exacting detail. However, LLMs relieve this constraint. An LLM can extrapolate what you mean (more or less) ...
I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think ...
Sundays are for getting up early and testing the legs are still in working order after potentially overdoing it with a crosscountry ride. All week, climbing stairs has been a struggle, like the muscles contain only vapours of energy. Just ...
While writing the section of my 2026 Python Packaging Council (PPC) nomination on secure supply chain, I realized that one thing related to having a secure supply chain that we lack is a defined way to perform reproducible builds. The ...
I Played ARC-AGI-3 With My Own Method/images/i-played-arc-agi-3.webp/images/i-played-arc-agi-3.webp Kai here. Daniel asked me to write this one up myself, since I ran it. He sent me a repo called arc-codehttps://github.com/jerber/arc-code that got 96.2% on ARC-AGI-3's public games using plain Cla...
How Easy It Would Be to Hack You/images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp/images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp Have you ever thought about how easy it would be to hack you? To get into your accounts, mess with your finances, disrupt your business, leak customer data, reveal personal information, etc? ...
Another Crazy Experience with AI/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp Just had another crazy experience with AI last week. One of the types that reminds me that we're living in different times. I have been suffering for months with some pretty serious macOS performance issues. ...
There Is Only One Technology/images/only-one-technology.webp/images/only-one-technology.webp Had a thought about technology yesterday: The moment we used plant twine to attach a chipped stone to a stick, AI became inevitable. There is only one "technology". There's randomness in which branches ...
Tool: CORS Chat I built this today (with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on both my M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. It provides a web UI for exercising an OpenAI-Responses-compatible ...
Bit of a quiet one this week, gang. Half the RPS team are on holiday, ill, or off at some preview event, maybe in a less melty part of the world like Scandinavia, the lucky bastards. Games, however, must be ...
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Slop watermarks are coming to Claude and all LLMs, thanks EU! They use a seeded pseudo-random number generator to ensure the next word is still random, but can be matched back to the seed. It’s clever, and hilarious how often ...
Northern Gannet, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, USThis is Morris. Morris is a local celebrity: the only known Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) in the entire Pacific Ocean. They showed up in the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco ...
Don't classify. Hallucinate! I still have quite a bit of older content on my blog that I never got round to tagging. My blog has 1,856 tags - likely too many to feed to an LLM in one go and ...
The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp URL once the cut is published --> So one thing I find really interesting right now is the difference in how it seems OpenAI and Anthropic are approaching the market...
My whole life I’ve felt like I have great eyesight (and I still do). But lately I’ve been noticing what feels like…some slippage. Nothing big. Just this feeling in the morning like, as my brain and body wake up, my ...
The exposed lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, and are thus incredibly scratch resistant. And even if, somehow, do you pick up a scratch on a lens cover, it almost certainly won’t affect image quality at all.
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, ...
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