A collection of notes about physics, programming and personal thoughts.

My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere I don’t expect.

Fergus Murray with Sonny Hallett (2023) Monotropism was formulated as a theory of autism. It seeks to explain the experiences and traits of autistic people in terms of a tendency for resources like…

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Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

Append-only log as database. No UPDATE, no DELETE. Complete audit trail built-in.

The state aims to give children a better start, but faces supply and staffing concerns.

If you were worried about tracking cookies, you really don’t want to know about browser fingerprinting.

The brand, which evokes nostalgia and pride, hit its €5m fundraising target within hours and orders have soared

Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally with language...

The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

Actual, complete solution for Linux audio on the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 (16IAX10H) - nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga

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Two twin spacecraft are on their way to study the effects of space weather on the planet Mars, adorned by “easter eggs” including a couple of kiwis.

A retinal implant designer must decide if translating mourning into light is progress or a refusal to let go.

Oscar Wilde’s novel, published in 1891, speaks to a modern culture obsessed with youth.

Apple researchers have published a study that looks into how LLMs can analyze audio and motion data to get a better overview of the user’s activities.

Real-time news. Delayed forty years.

First ultrasound olfactory stimulation in humans! We reliably induced distinct smells like campfire and fresh air. A nose BCI breakthrough.