Rest of What I Know
Rest of What I Know
Roshan George
I'm Roshan and I post on my blog about engineering, life in San Francisco, and the process through which I became a father.
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Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_Stylometer.jpg}}|thumb|Moderators sound like moderators]] Recently there was a big hullaballoo about the fact that Claude is watermarking their generated text. John Gruber called it a...
Roshan: Wikipen Most people have a variety of objectives, proximate and ultimate, and a variety of virtues. The virtues are how one represents themselves to be predictable and trustworthy to others, which are how they are able to form...
Roshan: Wikipen [[Environmentalism As A Means]] refers to the approach of using environmentalism as a mechanism to achieve other objectives. This is the dominant form of environmentalist thought and action in the United States with the...
Roshan: Wikipen '''Amber''' is my personal web archiver. If you found this page from a <code>User-Agent</code> string in your server logs, this is the crawler that visited you. == About == Amber keeps versioned, replayable copies of...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Pangram_detects_an_AI_passage.jpg}}|thumb|Welp]] Today I ran into a story I thought was funny. {{HackerNews | url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185556 | author = harper |...
Roshan: Wikipen I read a recent thread which I think is fairly typical of a kind of motivated reasoning common in the US<ref name=in-us/>. == Home Cleaning == {{Tweet | name = Nicholas Decker | username = captgouda24 | text = Something I...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Huggies_Overnight_Diaper.jpg}}|thumb|Huggies overnight diapers - a marvel of modern science]] Modern materials are amazing magical devices to create a prosperous society. They are ever-present to a...
Roshan: I recently read this article about a physician's husband who died of suicide after being denied care in what's described as a resort-grade facility. {{HackerNews | url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981496 | author =...
Roshan: I saw an interesting tweet today about who-marries-whom, that is which races in the US marry which other races. {{Tweet | name = Crémieux | username = cremieuxrecueil | text = Here's a big chart of the latest data on interracial...
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Citation Laundering - An Example Flowchart.png}}|thumb|An example of how you might do this]] [[Citation Laundering]] is the practice of taking a low-likelihood statement and citing it through an...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:ChatGPT_Image_Gen_-_Dyson_Sphere_in_Construction.jpg}}|thumb|ChatGPT's conception of what a Dyson sphere might look like. It would be dark in a cosmological sense but it has to radiate. And...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Nano_Banana_rendition_of_Seattle's_Port_By_The_West_Seattle_Trail.jpg}}|thumb|The parking lot where I was stopped with my busted-up tire. The penny-farthing guy was there, yes]] I dropped by a...
Roshan: Wikipen Today, [https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ a GPT-5.x prototype escaped containment on HuggingFace's servers using a 0-day it came up with] which is both phenomenally cool and a...
Roshan: Wikipen [[The Inscrutable Success Heuristic]] refers to a situation where someone makes apparently stupid decisions which always pay off. If this happens often enough and the ideas seem particularly unlikely to work then it's...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Sync_Duration_-_Skybright_ETL.jpg}}|thumb|The view into my ETL system]] Now that we have agents that can analyse our data for us, the question becomes whether to retain our dashboards or not. I...