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Why All Philosophers Ought To Be Radical Naturalists
My last blog posts calling for a scientific turn in philosophy and the abandonment of aprioristic philosophy largely resulted in three responses.
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Is Meta’s Muse secretly running an OpenAI model?
Is Meta’s Muse secretly running an OpenAI model? I found a model labeled azure/muse-special while Muse was building my website.
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I Look, if you are still stuck on “AI cannot really think, it’s just a stochastic parrot”, please snap out of it and lock in, or you’ll keep repeating that line until you find yourself sitting in the corner chair, watching as ChatGPT™ has sex with your wife.
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LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs
Diego Escalante argues that GNOME and KDE LLM-policy debates are really about whether open-source communities will accept “progress at all costs,” and what values get traded away when AI tooling is waved through.
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On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang
Zvi Mowshowitz annotates Ezra Klein’s interview with Jensen Huang: Huang downplays existential risk as “just software,” yet endorses safety standards that would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending.
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Friday Facts #447 - Factorio that you can touch
Factorio’s Friday Facts #447 covers a physical Factorio experience: how a playtesting event snowballed into a touchable factory build players can visit, with design notes from the Wube team.
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Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
Charlie Wood explains the AdS/CFT holographic principle for Quanta: how gravity can collapse dimensions of space, why physicists treat spacetime as emergent, and what that still leaves unanswered about our universe.
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I’m Tired of Being on the Network
Mat Duggan on smartphone fatigue: how always-on networks reshaped attention, relationships, and work, and why stepping back from the phone has become a practical form of self-preservation.
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John D. Cook explains dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbits: why satellites there stay in perpetual sunlight, and what that means for powering orbital compute servers.
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Why updatedInput in a PreToolUse Hook Doesn’t Rewrite the Command
A deep dive into Claude Code PreToolUse hooks: why returning updatedInput does not rewrite the shell command, and how permission decisions actually work.
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V-JEPA: Learning Video Representations by Feature Prediction
A hands-on walkthrough of Meta’s V-JEPA: video tubelets, feature prediction, pretrained encoder features, temporal tests, and a small action-classification experiment.
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“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure” – Goodhart’s law Current AI research, especially the frontier LLM research, is dominated by benchmarks. It is the first thing we look at when a new model comes out, it is the headline of each release, and they dominate the discourse when […]
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a hacky fucked up way to portably access errno from outside of c
sebsite shows a cursed but portable way to read errno from Hare without a C wrapper: redirect stderr to a temporary file, call perror, read back the message, and match it against a table of strerror strings to recover the error number.
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Alberto Denia argues that agentic coding has made code malleable like clay rather than stone, letting developers model software roughly and refine it, and contrasts two ways of working with the new material: the hands-on artisan and the automated factory, and when each fits.
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Stelios Petrakis describes building a C raycaster around the maze generation algorithm of the Atari 2600 game Entombed (1983), whose mysterious lookup table builds the maze one row at a time within 128 bytes of RAM, then reskinning it as a Backrooms-style game with a browser-playable Three.js version.
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Differences between foldl and foldr
The Haskell blog preserves Alexis King's widely used explanation that foldl and foldr differ in associativity rather than traversal direction, covering lazy versus strict folds, why foldl' is usually right for strict accumulation, when foldr suits lazy or short-circuiting work, and when foldMap is the better choice.
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L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages
Mark Jason Dominus explores Fibonacci words and L-systems—how the same rewrite rules generate rabbit genealogies, weevil patterns, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages.
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Your Body Of Work Thinks Back At You
A photographer revisits years of bench photos and finds hostile architecture emerging in the archive—arguing that a body of work can reveal patterns the maker only notices in retrospect.
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The next frontier in worm research is to be able to visualise (map) the locations of worms, in-situ, and if possible, at the paddock scale.
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CS 240 Spring 2026 AI Retrospective
Purdue CS 240 instructor Jeffrey Turkstra reflects on Spring 2026 AI-assisted cheating cases: what went wrong in enforcement, what students actually did, and how academic integrity policy should change.
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