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merkle sync
a from-scratch two-way file sync engine for two machines on one local network. no http, no json, no central server, just raw tcp, udp multicast and a merkle…
the training set was us
i went looking for something to watch a few weeks ago and ended up scrolling the list i keep of shows people have told me to get to, the type of list that only…
what constraints do to momentum
dynamical systems was the one course at uni that actually grabbed me, so on a slow afternoon last week i tried to see how much trouble i could get into. picked…
holding has no shape
i spent last tuesday doing nothing and came home knackered. well, not quite nothing. i had six agents going at once, with one claude rewriting a migration…
the $10b shortcut
we are currently witnessing a structural bifurcation in the global ai landscape. on one side, you have the closed-source giants (openai, anthropic, google)…
a small lit circle
i became a software engineer partly because i wanted to understand things. i like the feeling of taking something that looks like magic from the outside and…
the moonshot that leaked
i have been arguing for some time that the "capital moat" theory of ai, the idea that you need a gdp-sized budget and a nuclear power plant to train a frontier…
i have everything but nothing at all
i'm twenty-three. if you saw my life written down you'd probably think i had it figured out. good grades in school, then imperial, goldman after that, the job…
reading without reading
we have spent the last decade obsessed with scale. we want more parameters, more data and, perhaps most desperately, longer context windows. we went from…
two faces of desire
so, is a state of low desire actually a problem? from within, if i am truly content, resting in a quiet ease within my own skin, who can claim that i suffer?…
gold medal, one blind spot
if you have been following the breathless hype cycles of ai, you are likely exhausted. i know i am. but what happened in australia this year is different.…