When things finish up with TairAzuma, it feels so natural that you wonder how it could have been otherwise. Read more The post Seihantai na Kimi to Boku (You and I Are Polar Opposites) – 19 appeared first on Lost in Anime.
This builds on the ideas in my digital aura series, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have read it to follow along. I start by justifying why audiences want authentication of art and other cultural works, but AI detectors aren’t the best option — if you want to get straight to the theory, jump […]
Here are five free Mac applications you've most likely never come across. A project template/scaffolding automator, a local music player, resize batch images, a posture app that takes Advantage of the AirPods motion sensors, plus a financial calculator for cash flow simulation. • Prefab - Capture a folder structure as a reusable "blueprint," add...
Today's links Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture': The definitive textbook (with comics!). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Hair-gel bombers v bras; Hair-gel bombers v chemistry; AOL digs for spammer's platinum; Stross on infosec in 2061; In-game Ponzi; Snowden on Shadow Brokers hack; Life v...
At the very last minute, German national football coach Julian Nagelsmann dropped a world cup bombshell: Manuel Neuer, the 40-year-old, retired goalkeeper of legend, would return to grace the team with his presence once more. Neuer had withdrawn from the national team two years prior but agreed to play. The public didn’t think it was […]
There is certainly quite a bit more to optimise in local inference–Simon got around 72% more throughput from MTP speculative decoding–even if most readily available (and not hugely overpriced) consumer hardware still can’t quite get to the point where memory bandwidth makes dense models usable interactively. I can’t wait for an A3B or adaptive...
I usually do my bike tours after work or on the weekend during the day. Yesterday, I did it in the evening. It was very nice, and some views (sadly, the camera on my bike phone isn’t that great) felt quite epic. I also managed to drink enough carbohydrates to not feel weak, but unfortunately it made me sleep badly afterward.
It’s said that maths is not so much invented as it is discovered. I think the same thing could be said for most software. Sometimes a design is clear to everyone. You just need to “talk through” to the discovery.
This is the second part of a three-part series.
Listened to Only the Nicest of Proposals - Continue Post details Welcome to Continue: Go Proposals edition! Each edition of this show will handle a specific topic that can be covered continuously. This edition is for Go Proposals. Each week Kris and Matt will…
Harnesses manage the systems around agents, from the session, to the company, to the domain.
The folks at Microsoft Azure recently wrote up a post incident review for a networking issue in their West U.S region. From the included timeline, it looks like the impact was on the order of five hours. It’s a pretty short write-up, but let’s take a look at the contributors. On 23 July 2026, a … Continue reading Quick thoughts on Azure Regional...
Facing it head-on from the sidewalk, 1001 Fifth Avenue is impressive enough—a 23-story residential building clad in a limestone facade topped by what looks like a mansard roof that stretches into the sky. Viewed from the side, however, and this mansard roof is just a massive limestone slab supported by steel buttresses, creating no extra […]
A vaguely described UAE-owned satellite is likely to conduct remote sensing tasks following its orbital delivery.
# Due diligence for charitable giving Nonprofits in the United States disclose detailed information about their finances and operations to the public. These disclosures are stored in a searchable [government database](https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/), but I prefer ProPublica's [Nonprofit Explorer](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/)...
I’m in San Francisco staying with my friend Kevin Kelly. He and I have been having conversations about AI and writing for many moons, way back before ChatGPT was a thing. Last night, before heading off to bed, he told me he now thinks of himself as writing for AI. The LLMs are the audience. […] The post Meat (a short story) appeared first on Hugh...
It was today that I found out just how much I’ve contributed to various LLMs. If you hate the way AI writing sounds, you’ll probably hate my books. And the whole em dash thing is seriously my fault. Click here to see how much you taught AI to write! The post My bad. appeared first on Hugh Howey.
Just hearing about this upcoming 6-part series with Barack Obama discussing his favorite books! I’ll definitely listen. But sounds like the “podcast” will be exclusive to Audible, so not actually a podcast.
The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard matrix G, you can construct a sequence of Hadamard matrices by Hn+1 = G ⊗ Hn for […] The post Proportion of...
There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback.An anonymous Saxon poet known only as Poeta Saxo, writing in Annales de gestis Caroli magni imperatoris libri quinque ("Annals of the Deeds of Emperor Charlemagne in Five Books"; see the illustration), summed up...
There are some things you wouldn’t have thought you’d miss when you loose a contact that worked at a library. Access to old newspapers is one such thing. Now I’m calling branches saying things like “can I collect your old newspapers? I have a need for old newspapers. Can I have them?”
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 for drawing pelicans riding bicycles this is a problem that I needed to solve! The tool is...
In the late 80s, a manager at Microsoft named Paul Maritz sent an email to a colleague suggesting they “eat their own dogfood.” What he meant was that LAN Manager, a product he oversaw, should get more internal use. How could they build a tool that others trusted if they didn’t trust it themselves? The […] The post Dogshit appeared first on Hugh...
John Gruber blogged about X and using XCancel: I understand not wanting to visit Twitter/X. But if you feel that way, I do sympathize, but that’s your decision, and you should use tools to redirect Twitter/X links automatically. And if you’re wondering why I don’t just refuse to link to anything on Twitter/X, that just isn’t practical. I wish it...
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 laptop, and its predecessor Qwen 3.6 27B was impressive. Qwen's self-reported benchmarks for this model are...
Forget national service. Maybe what we need to introduce is that everyone is required to be a garbo for a month. That way, everyone will think better about throwing their litter on the ground.
The main thing this week has been GopherCon UK - an expensive week, and unfortunately not as good as previous years - but you can see my writeup for more info On Tuesday night when I got in, I went over to Monohon Ramen which was nice Met some nice folks and had some good chats Went up to Smithfields Market to get a view of the eclipse, but as we...
Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize that she’s helping to organize an exciting CS conference called Mind-IL at Tel Aviv University on October 26, in memory of the Israeli-American Turing Award winner Michael O. Rabin, who passed away in April. Please note that October 26 is the day before […]
Yesterday I went to the beach. Water is always in motion. I have many opinions and intuitions about the motion of water. I go to the beach when I am likely to be able to ride waves. I make myself aware of time and tide, wind and the size and shape of water. James mentioned...
Inspired by old crime TV, British designer Alex Carpenter's Drop Dead Rug was such a hit at the London Design Festival in 2005 that he took it into production.Mimicking the shape of "an unfortunate soul which may have come to pass right there on your living room floor with their silhouette remaining as evidence," the throw is a dark red felt with...
Tiangong TV: August 16th 2026.
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 the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.
😩 Sometimes there’s an app you actually like, but there’s something about the developer that you can’t stand. I just came upon another of those apps.
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) from just a few words. So computers can do vibes now. It used to be that computers could only ever do exactly what...
It’s popular for certain news organizations to have their reporters ask politicians how many genders there are. The “right” answer, apparently, is two. But a question like this is not fair to the politician or to voters. A politician’s opinion about the number of genders is irrelevant. The number is what it is, and their opinion changes nothing....
“(…) you should blog about that shallow, uninteresting stuff anyway. Write your point of view on whatever. It’s your blog, do what you feel like.” #blogging 🍜 What should you...
Speaking of user interface guidelines, developer Matt Sephton and others compiled many of Apple’s human interface guidelines, starting from 1980, all the way to 2014, including some goodies like early drafts, NeXT, Newton, and so on. = 2x) and (width >= 700px)"...
After several months of dealing with Indian netizens, I discovered that India's 'win narrative' is far more complex than imagined. After careful study, I believe the underlying code of India's win narrative is the word 'contentment' (安分), but it is precisely because of the dual meanings of this word in Chinese that we often have biases when...
I've been watching this HBO (I say "haytch-bo") show The Newsroom. It's a fantastic show, written by Aaron Sorkin, and he is the news anchor in the show. I believe the first season was filmed in 2012, and it is set from 2010-2011. You may have seen a clip of this show online, where a college student asks "Why is America the best country in the...
⚙️ Needed a bookmarklet to add blogs to my FreshRSS account. I now have a bookmarklet to add blogs to my FreshRSS account.
This was a different week, partly because we decided to watch the eclipse from a Spanish beachfront and partly because I actually read three books. There is an entire sub-thread around my back and neck aching worse than ever and my sleep patterns looking like a game of Splatoon that I will spare my readership, though. I do think that this week’s...
Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin, and Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information: As Amodei has hopscotched the globe to preach about the potential and risks of AI — from New Delhi to Davos to Sun Valley — Clark has almost always been near his side. Several people who know the couple...
I like learning new things, and I like learning new old things. I was looking at Apple Human Interface Guidelines from 1987 and this passage caught my attention: The most common use of double-clicking is as a shortcut way to perform an action. For example, clicking twice on an icon is a faster way to open it than clicking once to select it, then...
I realise you’re sick of hearing about this, but I’m sick of experiencing it, so take it: I hate the heat. I can’t sleep, I can’t think straight, my brain doesn’t work properly in general. I’m flustered and irritable and short-tempered. At least I have an office to go to, which I did every day this week. It’s slightly too cold in there but...
James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had their outputs revealed themselves through artefacts. Thankfully, a sum borne of the brain is treated no differently from one produced by a...
Medications, transactional email, home battery, a skip, ‘Mission: Impossible 5’, ‘White Lotus’ season three, ‘True Detective’ season four.
There’s a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I’ve been trying to put my finger on, and I think it’s this: you can basically just decide how many bugs you want your software to have now. We discovered this first with security, because of course security bugs are the most non-negotiable ones. But I think […]
Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code. If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own – granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc – it’s 51kloc total. (Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.) I’m not really proud of this, or embarrassed. Just wanted to put it out there for anyone who […]
The Wall Street Journal (gift link): To help alleviate the supply crunch, Apple is looking to Chinese manufacturers. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said in an interview after touring an Apple manufacturing facility in Houston. There have to be “other solutions to the memory issue, but it’s not great American...
Mom always said to leave them out to cool to room temperature before putting them in the fridge.Mom also said that reading in bad light would hurt your eyes.Mom was wrong both times.Maybe more — but let's not be haters: after all, look how well you turned out.Erm... maybe it's time to move on.Okay then, on to Anahad O'Connor's "Really?"...
What should you blog about when nothing feels interesting enough, too shallow, or already covered way better by others? Answer: you should blog about that shallow, uninteresting stuff anyway. Write your point of view on whatever. It's your blog, do what you feel like. Post photos of your cute cat, write 1,700 words about wasps, or share your...
Computer History in ChatGPT is blowing my mind. It’s basically a note-taker for what I’m working on. Here’s a screenshot of my work so far this morning. I’m still fine-tuning what apps should be included… No chat, and will likely exclude some specific websites too.
Earlier this summer, my wife and I adopted a dog. We live downtown, which seems to be a new environment to the dog. She’s only been interested in walking around our building: any further, and the stress becomes too much for her to tolerate. These walks have been short; five or ten minutes at most. […] The post A gentle slip out of the comfort...
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 it is fundamentally a crisis of trust. I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are...
XCancel: XCancel is an instance of Nitter. Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [...] Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your...
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