Mark 13:32: Can We Choose What God Already Knows?
Jesus knew who would betray him and who would deny him, yet said he did not know the day or the hour. What that tells us about free will. Giotto di Bondone, Kiss of Judas, fresco, Scrovegni Chapel,…
Snowy Love.
I recently had the chance to see Nizhalkuthu (നിഴൽക്കുത്ത്, Shadow Kill); I think it’s my first movie in Malayalam, so I kept my linguist hat on as I watched, and one repeated word was സ്നേഹം…
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“Musical Chairs” to Receive Second Performance
Pianist and vocalist Shuo Zhai prepared a program entitled Musical Chairs on Willard Street for the afternoon of Saturday, October 24. This was arranged as a groupmuse event and quickly sold out. As…
Response to Paolo Pedercini's stance on AI usage
I'm stepping into Da Discourse again
Record: Omul Cu Șobolani - Distopia (Povești De Adormit Părinții)
2026 • LP, Red, Gatefold • Cassette • CD To see all 8 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at:…
Goodbye, Lara ★★★★☆
In the opening scene, when Lara is being born, her sisters already know that she’s going to be a princess, but argue about if she will be a blue or red, as if mermaid gender is colour-based, and her…
Experts: Before You Can Increase Revenue or Impact, Stop Making This Mistake
A few years ago, I was having coffee at a conference with a friend and fellow speaker, when someone approached with a question."Jay!" she said. (A fine opening, I thought. For that, dear reader, is…
On top of the world, III
Washington, September 2026. From the video I finally found the image I was looking for in the mountains of Washington.
Post-It Dungeon for October TWO !!!
WE'RE DOIN' IT AGAIN!!! This dungeon can be either standalone (in which case there is an area for a potential entrance marked with a large E on the map above) or it can serve as a lower dungeon level…
From the Human Gut Archaeome to Marine Salterns: A 0.21 Å Dark Proteome Structural Lock Across Halophilic Families
How pg_bio's autonomous Swarm expanded to 139,601 edges and uncovered a 0.207 Å RMSD (0.982 TM-score) DUF7538 structural ortholog shared between human gut archaeon Haloferax massiliensis and marine…
I finally found the image I was looking for in the mountains of Washington
After weeks chasing an idea, I finally make it happen. The mountains of Washington gave me what I was looking for.
Three things a run stopped doing
A fast run is mostly a run that skips work. Three jobs vx used to do on every run, and why each one went: housekeeping at exit, a walk of the shared store, and a "saved" figure that overstated what…
Marine Corps Marathon Coming Up
Austin running the Army 10-Miler in the pouring rain, October 11th. Marine Corps Marathon is on Sunday. From: Terrierman's Daily Dose To order the book. .
The Communist Network Burning Down France
France continues to burn, and it turns out that there are some familiar names behind the riots. Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, warns of rising violence in Europe as…
We took back a glob shortcut
vx once read [...] in a task glob literally, so a Next.js route like app/[id] needed no escape. It also meant src/*.[jt]s matched nothing, unlike Turbo, Nx and most glob tools. Why vx now reads…
Five World Series Pitching Predictions, Locked Before Game 1
Written down now, graded later, no edits allowed. The Brewers and the Rays open the World Series on 23 October 2026. Before the first pitch, I’m putting five predictions about the Series’…
Chase delight
Writing challenge: Week 11
The Real Lesson from a Flying Tesla: Derivative Doesn’t Mean Unoriginal
Tesla shows off a Roadster that can lift itself into the air, and somewhere an aspiring entrepreneur thinks “I need to invent something even more spectacular to be successful”. I admire the ambition…
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Sandboxing Ai Agents On Linux
Sandboxing untrusted AI agents on Linux
6FPS V8#1: My Year Without Chocolate
The January issue of my monthly newsletter is out!
6FPS V8#2: Not a Diet
The February issue of my monthly newsletter is out
Republicans secure Senate and the House to win Congress in a surprising Midterms victory? The Permanent Contrarian’s view on politics.
I admit, President Trump’s popularity has dropped significantly. I believe Paxton and Abbott’s victories in Texas victories are existential necessities for the Republican party and under the…
Why aren’t we talking about growing the economy?
The UK’s political conversation is almost entirely focused on how to find money and how to spend it. We debate taxes, borrowing and public service budgets while neglecting the economy that generates…
Tech People Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen Either
Why it's so hard to predict the AI future. The post Tech People Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen Either appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
The Second Explosion: Why Multi-Agent AI Defies Traditional Engineering
I have worked in software engineering for more than thirty years and witnessed several combinatorial explosions firsthand. The AI-driven explosion now under way is different, and that distinction…
Cocktails in Jaipur: The Good, the Bad and the Overpriced
Updated: 20 October 2026 From inventive Indian flavours to questionable service, a few years of Friday nights in Jaipur’s cocktail bars. My cocktail arrived in a delicate floral china cup. The…
Just a Lot of Multiplication: What's Actually Inside an LLM
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C.
Boredom
[YouTube embed] Kya writes: “Parents think this is boredom. Parents think infants need all the toys and colorful stimulation. They don’t. ” * This video was not created by me. It...
INtegrated New Mathematical Breakthroughs From Nuclear Force to Universe
When I worked at NSF (198-2015), my PhD in applied mathematics, in the school of Von Neumann, let me probe the front lines of more disciplines than anyone else there. But the NEW tools, from LLMs to…
GLM on an A100, in Vx
The decoder of GLM-5, a mixture-of-experts model of about 750 billion parameters with sparse attention and 256 experts per layer, runs on an NVIDIA A100 through 28 GPU kernels written in Vx and…
Optimizing for the common case, in language design
Hardware designers make the common case fast. A language can make the common case need no extra words. The most common parallel loop starts one task per index. Go, C# and JavaScript first made that…
DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Engine Behind Its Models
DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework it uses to serve its own models, under Apache 2.0. What it does, what it leaves out, and why it matters more than it looks.
Traveling for the First Time at 27
I know this might sound silly to some people, but in my 27 years of living in this world, I had never been on an airplane until this year (2026). And now, I've flown twice in the same year! I'm truly…
stagehand
Samson Dauda, 2026Just to start off with a concrete example, there was a disembodied stagehand’s hand backstage that reached up and helped the center stage doors close almost every time a…
AI can weaken relationships between people - and teams suffer as a result.
"When people see AI as a more competent, trustworthy, and preferable source of input than a colleague, they replace human interactions that otherwise would have built or maintained trust."
Researchers: We think we’ve found Amelia Earhart’s crash site. Everyone: Yay! Researchers: It’s on a…
Researchers: We think we’ve found Amelia Earhart’s crash site.Everyone: Yay!Researchers: It’s on a remote tropical island. If she survived the crash, she could have lived out her…
(18+) I played Saya no Uta for the first time
MASSIVE Content Warning. This is an adult visual novel with gruesome imagery, and mature and unsettling themes, including sexual violence and suicide. (Also, this review does not contain any major…
Overtime: When the Plan Runs Out, Credits Take Over
My harness stopped Claude Code and Codex at 95% of their plan windows, even when usage credits could have paid for more. Now it checks for usable credits first, keeps working until they run low, and…
I Don't Care.
Since the rise of trumpism aka the descent of decency I've been quick to notice how the corruption of amerikkka and the corruption of the holding-company dominated ad industry look shockingly…
Mitigating CVE-2026-111943 in OkHttp
I just learned that some private keys leaked for a widely-trusted certificate authority. This is bad: it makes it possible for attackers to impersonate HTTPS services.If you’re shipping a mobile app…
How Paris Is Hamas
Albania is Hamas
Second Violin Advisory
I'm trying something new:Second Violin Advisory | Engineering leadership coaching and advisoryCoaching and advisory for engineering leaders: executive coaching, engineering organization reviews…
The Shanghai Agents by Heather Salter
Heather Salter’s The Shanghai Agents – The Soviet Plot to Start a Revolution in Interwar China (Cambridge University Press) is an excellent addition to the Old Shanghai shelf……
#31daysofhalloween | New Orleans
Some photos of Lafayette Cemetery taken circa 2016.... <img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="2048" height="360"…
Woke Berkeley Bakery Nabolom Can’t Stick to One Closure Story
Anti-Israel Berkeley bakery Nabolom closes after 50 years, with its owners blaming political backlash among a host of other problems. Continue reading Woke Berkeley Bakery Nabolom Can’t Stick to One…
Home offices
A non-exhaustive list of home offices (hopefully still) available on the internet: Stefan Didak: https://www.stefandidak.com/wp/ and https://www.stefandidak.com/office/ Mitch's Crazy Office:…