Hi! I play drums.
Craig Mod describes using AI to piece together the history of his biological family, file his taxes, a whole bunch of stuff. It makes me happy that he has to hold himself back from vibe-coding too much, because I do too. He “lets himself” do it after a healthy diet of reading and writing (also fun, but in a different way, and more sustaining). He writes about recent incidents where LLM agents in…
Google, in 2016: Within a single group, we see a sentence with the same meaning but from three different languages. This means the network must be encoding something about the semantics of the sentence rather than simply memorizing phrase-to-phrase translations. We interpret this as a sign of existence of an interlingua in the network. Exsqueeze me? But, Gedalyah Reback explains that Google’s…
I’m excited to hear it.
It’s Susie Tweedy’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom! I love you!
Do you think 730turk would be mad at me if I called this song SpongeBob-core? I ain’t the best at this shit / n***a I’m doing what I can
Robin Sloan : Yet we should never forget that the product of work isn’t only the work — it’s also the worker. Doing the work changes you; the up-close experience transforms your capabilities and even your desires. Insights and ideas emerge from that interface, and I believe the agent maestros lose a lot — too much — when they take their big step back. … I don’t merely want things done; I…
This is so, so cool. Also: kinda similar, but trains .
Japan has been good at computers for a long time. In 1954, Eiichi Goto invented the parametron, a logic device leveraging nonlinear parametric oscillation with two ferrite cores [and] in 1957, Goto led the development of the PC-1, a pioneering fully programmable stored-program computer powered by 4,200 parametrons. … Unlike the complex, maintenance-intensive vacuum tube computers of the era…
Fuck this.
Casey and I got caught in a tornado warning on our way home from Michigan today. In regular heavy rain we’d keep driving, but after a “Watch,” a “Warning,” and finally an “IMMINENT THREAT” alert screeched out of our phones, we stopped. We pulled off in Gary and drove for the sturdiest building we could see, a combination Department of Motor Vehicles and Child Services. The glass doors were locked…
“The best way to prevent a rogue AGI from processing the Earth into maximum paperclips is to unleash a second AGI that will work to stop it,” Matt Webb says . Sounds scary to me, but I’m ultimately convinced that having a lot of somewhat-powerful super-machines around, in contest and sometimes in cooperation, is a lot better than having just one uncontestedly super-powerful machine around. Much…
Revisiting Planet Waves .
Via SimpleBits . A selection of 20th-century matchbox labels from a collection of over 5,000 of them.
I love that, in the year of our lord 2026, Micro Center still attracts freaks of the classical variety to its staff.
So many adorable babies and their parents showed up to the Finom show at the MCA last night. Our front row was a dancing cherub fest.