Destroying libertarian free will
Against creating free will as a cause area.
osmarks' website
Wheels are turning. Wheels within wheels within wheels.
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London should be a cube
A new vision for housing in Great Britain.
On Graphcore
Trying exotic parallel processing hardware which is dead for fairly good reasons.
AI companion futures
Chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers.
Replacing tag systems
Also note-taking applications again, embeddings, and blog organization.
Genie Story
A short story about the importance of robust invariants.
DIYPC and server bifurcation
The many technologies modern servers have which your desktop doesn't.
So you want a cheap ML workstation
How to run local AI slightly more cheaply than with a prebuilt system. Somewhat opinionated.
Autocrafting algorithms
How it's made (automatically) (in computer games with Minecraft-like recipe systems).
On the empirical distribution of numbers
At last, data-driven numerology.
Site tech stack
Learn about how osmarks.net works internally! Spoiler warning if you wanted to reverse-engineer it yourself.
A modest proposal: Abstract Concept Georgism
Generalize land value tax to short names.
Consumer AR glasses
Why I think they're not popular, and what they need.
Against some assumed limits on superintelligence
The TAM for God is very large.
Lessons learned from Maghammer
I got annoyed and rewrote everything.
Linux on the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall F380 Revision B
My new main router.
The economics of heavenbanning
Predicting the post-social world.
Scaling meme search to 230 million images
Downloading and indexing everything* on Reddit on one computer.
Bitter-lesson computer algebra
Computer algebra systems leave lots to the user and require task-specific manual design. Can we do better?
Modded Minecraft power creep trends
Has Minecraft become easier?
Price discrimination by cognitive load
A slightly odd pattern I've observed.
Deep learning accelerator architecture
Or: why most AI hardware startups are lying.
Sparse autoencoders for meme retrieval
As ever, AI safety becomes AI capabilities.
Other things you may like
A nonexhaustive list of media which I like and which you may also be interested in.
Maghammer: my personal data warehouse
Powerful search tools as externalized cognition, and how mine work.
Thoughts on fictional magic systems
What exactly is "magic" anyway?
AI interface design
Please stop making chatbots.
MemeThresher: efficient semiautomated meme acquisition with AI
Absurd technical solutions for problems which did not particularly need solving are one of life's greatest joys.
Site tech stack 2: the unfathomed depths
RSAPI and the rest of my infrastructure.
Stop having political opinions
This is, of course, all part of my evil plan to drive site activity through systematically generating (meta)political outrage.
Minoteaur
The history of the feared note-taking application.
Programming education, tacit knowledge and LLMs
Why programming education isn't very good, and my thoughts on AI code generation.
Against being against rote memorization
A common criticism of school is that it focuses overmuch on rote memorization. While I don't endorse school, I think this argument is wrong.
RSS: good and useful
RSS/Atom are protocols for Internet-based newsletter/feed services. They're surprisingly well-supported and you should consider using them.
Against the "Online Safety Bill"
In which I get annoyed at yet more misguided UK government behaviour.
'Problem solving' tasks and computer science
Is solving Sudoku and similar puzzles by hand really useful in building computer science ability? We don't think so.
FTL tips
We are not responsible if these tips cause your ship to implode/explode. Contains spoilers in vast quantities.
Not everyone must "code"
Why I think that government programs telling everyone to "code" are pointless.
New site design!
It's slightly different now!
On phones
My (probably unpopular in general but... actually likely fairly popular amongst this site's intended audience) opinions on smartphones today.