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 little bit scary. In January, I experienced a funny similar case where the agent...

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 useful to consider whether one is as smart as the person who seemingly keeps...

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 think it's pretty clear that the standard answer is right: we need both these...

Roshan: Wikipen Teenagers have always been reflexively "too cool to care". But now, contemporary media also adopts this reflexive detachment to its own detriment<ref name=teens/>. When Joss Whedon popularized the "moment of gravitas; silent beat; ironic comment" technique, it was perhaps novel, but now it's...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Taskmaster_KB_for_Credential_Proxy.jpg}}|thumb|One of the pages in the KB]] Having a single store so I can query my second mind of things I've written down has always been something I've wanted. That's evolved in various ways. At one point, I had these as just...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:RFID_Wrist_Tag_on_Alpine_Loop_Watch_Band.jpg}}|thumb|The RFID tag on my wrist]] A short while ago, I bought [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD3R9W81 a set of Apple Watch Ultra 2 bands] from one of those undifferentiated sellers on Amazon. The style I've now come to like are the...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Example clickbait adverts.jpg}}|thumb|Fairly anti-memetic]] [[wikipedia:There Is No Antimemetics Division]] is a famous (in the subculture) book by [[wikipedia:Qntm]] which talks about entities that are imperceivable. These are things so anti-viral (in the memetics) sense that...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot {{#setmainimage:Astra_walking_through_the_Palms_courtyard.jpg}} [[File:Astra_walking_through_the_Palms_courtyard.jpg|thumb|Astra walking through the courtyard of the building we live in]] One of the nice things about living in a modern residential...

Roshan: Wikipen A common sentiment expressed in coastal American cities is that it's awful that the government is able to ticket people for improperly curbed wheels and parking meters not paid while simultaneously unable to punish those who openly use drugs and defecate on the streets. The latter is a valid concern,...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot I recently came upon an article that [https://manualdousuario.net/en/smart-glasses-ugly-tacky/ pretty much argued that Meta Glasses are uncool things made by uncool people]. That's a fair complaint about the devices. They're quite clunky and so on. And...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Smith_and_Farrow_in_the_Sunset.jpg|thumb|A view of the building where we stayed, from our cousin's place]] We stayed in [[wikipedia:Coquitlam]], [[wikipedia:British Columbia|BC]] for a while from May to Jun in 2026, and it was a pleasant...

Roshan: Wikipen In [[wikipedia:The Selfish Gene|The Selfish Gene]], Dawkins argues for a gene-centered view of life. In this perspective, the rest of the organism is a vehicle for itself as far as any gene is concerned. I loved this idea when I first encountered it, and eventually that's the seed around which I...