In the past we have written about large language models (LLMs) and how these can be used in agent-based modeling . However, these previous posts only touched the surface on what is possible. One area…

Today marks the one year anniversary of my mother performing an excellent impersonation of Socrates; she drank poison in a process overseen by the state. No Queensland does not have the death penalty…

A few weeks ago I wrote about getting the full ARM64 Steam client running on an unrooted Android tablet. At the time it was a proof of concept. Steam opened, authenticated, downloaded games, and…

It took me seven years to finish my first book. (I wrote about this in The War of Art.) I couldn’t sell it. Couldn’t find a buyer. In fact, it would be twenty-one more years before a novel of mine…

What happens to relational practice when one side of the exchange structurally lacks a subject-locus.

The question of LLM phenomenal consciousness dissolves under analysis, while a conventional asymmetry between LLMs and biological subjects remains — and is determinate.

website called cloudhiker came to my attention today used for scrolling random websites thank god i love scrolling random websites now there’s a feature on there for the actual websites…

I recall the year quite vividly, September 2019, hard to imagine 7 years passing so quickly. I was invited to be the keynote guest speaker at the Men's Sheds Shedfest that's been a growing…

We are so excited to be invited to Cambridge to play QWIM! There are a whole host of different bands and acts there so there’s something for everyone. You can use the QR code to get your ticket and…

The most recent AI Skeptics podcast episode features Jacob Tsimerman, the current Fields Medal winner, who recently announced he is joining OpenAI to work in their AI safety division.

I’ll probably update this later, but I wanted to at least show people some research I’ve been doing recently (with … Continue reading Remote Desktop Protocol + NLA Honeypots

«Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent … The greatest dangers to liberty [...]

Today I want to tell a story about how sometimes science leads you to unexpected places. The main character of this story is the paper “Multilayer Network Backboning” (MNB to its…

The Mulai, Munir Hachemi, tr. Julia Sanches (Fitzcarraldo Editions 978-1804272732, June 2026; Coach House Books 978-1-55245-519-7, July 2026). I came across The Mulai by Spanish author Munir Hachemi…

↗ TranscriptI dropped my car off for its MOT this morning and took the opportunity to have a little walkaround while I waited to collect it.In all the twenty years I have lived in Southall, I have…

I remember the 80s. It may have been before your time, but that's okay. There was this cool new thing in the 70s -- a personal computer. People were hyping the heck out of them, and I guess they were…

My guest this week is Professor Alistair Noble, President of Nan Tien Institute, a small independent higher education provider near Wollongong grounded in Buddhist values.

It’s a tricky thing, justice. Best method I’ve found is making sure everyone feels both ends of the stick at some point in their life, just to give them faith that it’s all fair and equal. If you…

This final week of August, I am taking part in the 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP12), held at the Complutense University of Madrid from 24 to 28 August 2026. I have already…

If you see the world today, children learn to play iPad, iPhones and other smart phones before they even learn to walk properly. They know how to touch and drag the things of their interest. So it is…

An exploration of Britain’s infamous Bio-Bus (YT13 YUK), which ran on biomethane generated from human waste and organic sludge.

[!QUOTE] "Fast, technical videos" Scripts for my talks on the YouTube channel. up to the 43rd are in https://github.com/0atman/noboilerplate , then I switched to publishing them here on this site…

First 100 primes in Python (with CPU info for perf comparison): def print_cpuinfo(): for fn in ['/proc/cpuinfo', '/etc/os-release', '/proc/cmdline', '/proc/version',…

Welcome to the Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy happening in Hannover, Germany and being hosted by CISPA. The Symposium is a community that studies how people use security and privacy…

The original Willey House in Crawford Notch, late 1800s next to the larger Willey Hotel NH State Park photo In 1793 the Willey Family of Bartlett, New Hampshire bought an isolated farmhouse and land…

Following tokens downstream through the AI stack, from data to chips to models to applications, and asking who keeps the margins at each step.

Investigate a production issue or unfamiliar repository from the terminal without losing the commands, observations, and uncertainty a teammate needs to reproduce your reasoning.

How many home technology nerds does it take to screw in a light bulb?

What a merge queue actually does, how GitHub's version is configured, where the richer tools go further, and why writing a terminal dashboard for it meant giving up on REST entirely.

Last winter, I visited the Tamiya show room in Tokyo with a high school friend. Inside, Honda’s historic first F1 machine was on display. My friend, a lifelong racing enthusiast, knew all about this…

lately i have been thinking about life a lot. you see, whatever happens in our lives, doesn't need to make sense. it will make sense eventually tho, but doesn't mean it will now. i have no accolades,…

A written guide to my talk on deploying Django and why 90% of it is the same.

John Voorhees, reporting for MacStories: Today, Apple announced a new M6 chip that will debut in the Mac mini and an M5 Ultra that is coming to the Mac Studio. The company also announced an M5 Pro…

This was originally a script for a video I recorded for a meeting of the Australian Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) group. It is addressed to those who are in institutional positions who…

I want to make things Hey look the sun is rising No robots in sight

I ran bounty 87 from Wages of Sin using FTL: Nomad and had a great time! The Session Cromwell the scholar, Grey alien played by Shaman. Rook the outsider, Reptilian played by Valibuk. The party found…

My first car was (is) a old 60's Opel, and it made me spoiled as a car owner. Calling it reliable is disingenuous, but with a bit of finagling - you'd always arrive eventually. No central locking to…

(And it’s not like they’ll ever be able to read this.) Because they’ll probably be somewhere between doing their own businesses, meetings, deadlines, coffee runs, reports, and the kind of busy that…

Abstract. For my 100th Anniversary Post, I document the workflow I use to create content with AI assistance. At the heart of the process are three key components: Template files — structured style gu

A new issue is here of curated discoveries sourced from the fediverse and beyond with loads of little bits to explore all organized into categories.

GraphFrames is distributed graph algorithms using Apache Spark as a backend. I was always thinking about it like a project that closes the gap between in-memory graph tools (IGraph, NetworkKit) and…

From individual perspective, software development is not less than any other art form. Then why is it that we the Software developers do not have the same freedom as the artists? Why are we being…

I am a big an of Pinball! Whenever I enter an arcade, it is the first machine that I look for. The machines are just awesome to look at and appreciate - a great mix of Electric & Mechanical…

I had a good time at Bubonicon, which had a record attendance of over 1000 people. In a few hours I’ll be winging my way to Worldcon in Anaheim, which will be the smallest worldcon probably in…

As an expat living in Germany, online radio has become a good daily companion. I enjoy listening to news from my home country (and connect to my mother tongue), practice German language or just…

ChatGPT apps do not have to stop at text responses. With an MCP server and a custom UI resource, an app can display interactive cards,...

Naming execution as your competitive edge is still a strategy move. Here's what actually closes the gap.

A few weeks ago, I was on vacation with my wife and kids. For a week, we stayed in a collegue's small bungalow next to a wonderful lake. For most of our stay, the weather was perfect — as if we had…

The idea that more and more things we use in our daily lives are morphing from something we buy to a #subscription model is growing alarmingly fast. The tangible way normal, everyday consumers can…