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…

An AI coding agent runs code before any human has reviewed it: shell commands, generated scripts, pip and npm installs, tool plugins. It can be steered by prompt injection hidden in a web page or a…

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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…

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…

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…

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C.

[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...

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I'm trying something new:Second Violin Advisory | Engineering leadership coaching and advisoryCoaching and advisory for engineering leaders: executive coaching, engineering organization reviews…

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…

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:…

In a previous blog post I walked through a RAG example using Microsoft Agent Framework so that we could do a semantic search against our documents. However, Bruno Capuano (Microsoft) and I went over…

Yesterday I was able to vote early at my local town hall. I had to go there to pay my property tax. The process could not have been easier or...

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the administrative body for Tirumala Temple , commissioned Darshan International of Bangalore to create incense sticks using recycled temple flowers as part of…

Today I’m reviewing Angel Olsen’s 2016 album My Woman, which has been given an impressive 10th-anniversary pressing from Mobile Fidelity. But first...A quick reminder that our October…

In an effort to quell the needs of my tyrannical overlords, who insist that I pay my mortgage and bills every month, I work about four different jobs. One of those jobs is writing tests for the UK…

These days I'm always behind the curve, so it seems. I was recently offered this blue vinyl copy of the Dynamite 'Settle The Score' 7" and thought I was keeping myself up to date... only to realise…

​A new documentary streaming on Prime Video today for $19.98 claims to have definitive proof that the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film is a hoax, as skeptics have long maintained. Marq…

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Fanny Tunison of Sag Harbor, New York, (September 1867 – March 1944) made a living sewing, painting, drawing, and embroidering. But unlike other women who may have…

I’ve long be Linux curious, and my wish finally came true over the weekend when my son installed Fedora and GNOME on an old ThinkPad for me. As I understand it, Fedora is the name of one of the Linux…

Oh hey there. ö/ It's been a while. Long story short: things n stuff. I do have an upcoming blog post titled something along the lines of "Getting on Stage for the Very First Time to a Completely…

Two panels at Women's Health Advocates in Chicago shared personal stories of breast cancer, maternal health, and fighting to be heard, plus a reminder to vote with women's health in mind.

I was up against a very short deadline to defend my water rights the last few days. I called around to several water rights attorneys for help, and every single one of them recommended the same guy.…

A library of ASCII art, but animated! You can browse a ton of scenes and data built with ASCII characters of your choice and even generate your own.

$942,068.68.I know that number to the cent because somebody made sure that I did, and twenty years later I still can't round it off in my head.I was in my twenties at DTCC, the company that…

As previously mentioned ( here ), in 2023 I read a history of how our modern world work arose, as it appeared to the author (Stolzoff, 2023): This brings us to 1500, where "the new profession of the…

A human with calipers and an agent with a CAD script put four printable parts online in eight days. Every mistake between them was a stand-in that crossed the gap in place of the real thing.

Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) has just released the twelfth edition of the Instrument Rating Oral Exam Guide by Jason Blair. Content is aligned with the Airman Certification Standards (ACS)…

The con artists at ASH are at it again. The state-funded prohibitionist pressure group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has published a report claiming that “the UK’s illicit tobacco market is now…

I’ve been testing Grok Bot and Instinct for a while. As I was recently in the US for a couple of weeks, I included Dots and Muse in the test. This morning I added Wabi. These are my first…

Many websites have started running some sort of “human-verification” script before showing the content. I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes (these seem to be much…

Given that I typically take a wait-and-see attitude when Apple introduces a new product, I was surprised to find myself ordering a HomeView within a day of its announcement. I was even more surprised…

Cooke has announced the S4 FF/i series, a set of six full-frame prime lenses that brings the S4 name back in a new format. The set covers 18mm to 100mm at a constant T2.0, in PL or LPL mount, and is…

I Don’t Fly 5inch Anymore: Why I’m Downsizing My FPV Drones, What I Recommend Looking back at the last few years, I’ve noticed something interesting: I’m barely flying 5-inch…

I don't know if you've seen this, but a CA just got popped. Their keys got leaked, which means the industry as a whole now has some pretty major problems. It was revealed two hours…

"The promotion [of AI] is important, otherwise from both a research perspective and a preparing our students for the future [perspective,] we will fall behind." This assertion, which I will leave…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** Image by Tumisu from <a…

A document app adds trash and restore. Each requirement looks fine, but together they conflict, and a check written for the old version catches it. A minimal example of formal methods for evolving…

Just realized that I've never previously blogged this absolutely classic performance. As one commenter said "Imagine playing Led Zeppelin FOR Led Zeppelin, and getting a standing ovation from Led…