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A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter...
Ted Hope reached out to ask:What percentage of first-time feature filmmakers made a second film within five years?A damn fine question. Is it talent? Connections? Money? Luck? A famous parent and a good haircut? So I turned to the data....
Although my business is to “stop the madness” on the web, I can’t seem to stop myself from the quixotic madness of posting articles on the web criticizing Apple’s curation of the App Store. Can my little blog counteract the PR of one of...
Lee Harvey Oswald never stood trial for killing President Kennedy. Jack Ruby shot him dead in a Dallas police basement two days after the assassination, and the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone was delivered without...
I’ve been struggling a bit with two seemingly contradictory views that I hold: I hugely value AI-generated code, 3D models, and even mockups of my kitchen redecoration. I intensely dislike AI-generated posts, articles, documents, books,...
I let Claude log into my atproto PDS with a temporary password and fix my messy Bookhive reading data against my Obsidian vault. Ten minutes later, everything was in sync. Imagine what we could do if this was the standard way of...
A recent trip to San Francisco gave me an opportunity to visit a lesser-known landmark, the Hammersmith building. Located at 301 Sutter Street, it was built in 1907 just after the 1906 quake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco...
🎧TLDR; I'm doing a podcast episode a day. The podcast is called Daily(ish). You can check it out here, and subscribe in various apps here.When I coming to the end of my Selfie a Day project (debrief post here) I was honestly surprised by...
It’s been a bit since I was typing SQL into a REPL. One interface that didn’t come back to me right away is the percent character in a like or ilike query: select full_name from users where full_name ilike 'jake%'; Returns: full_name...
A few months back, we went to Costa Rica for my nephew André's Bar Mitzvah. I have no photos of André in this post, but rest assured we love him more than these birds. We just happened to spend a few days in Monteverde before the...
Dark Knights of Steel, Vol. 2 #2B Travis Moore Variant Release: Aug 19, 2026Cover: Oct 2026 THE HOUSE OF EL IN DANGER! A sickness has befallen the Els, sending the Kingdom of Metropolis into disarray. But what–or who–could bring true...
This month is the Hungry Ghost festival. The elderly would warn us not to go out late at night and be careful of ghost who lingers in the earth realm. I am afraid of ghost, but I am more afraid of human beings. Ghost may frighten us, but...
In November 1934, retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler sat down in front of a congressional committee and calmly explained that a group of wealthy businessmen had spent the previous year trying to recruit him to lead a...
There’s the safe way to write a novel, and then there’s Tim Pratt’s way to write a novel. Abandoning any worries of appealing to the masses, Pratt hit the gas on all of their most interesting ideas and crafted the newest addition to...