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Kyle Harrison argues opaque succession and closed information kill company dynasties—using historical and modern cases to show why sunlight matters for lasting enterprises.
18 min · 4,200 words
Oxford Paper: ChatGPT Would Have Told the Wright Brothers Not to Fly
A summary of Felin and Holweg’s “Theory Is All You Need”: LLMs predict from past data, while human breakthroughs start when someone refuses the consensus the data encodes.
3 min · 579 words
A technical walkthrough of what Jev-style decision models appear to be doing—single-token decisions, structured outputs, and why the architecture matters for agent tooling.
20 min · 4,510 words
Do birds have accents? The fascinating regional differences in birdsong
Zoologist Louise Gentle explains how birdsong dialects vary by region—why accents form, how they spread, and what they reveal about learning and culture in birds.
4 min · 910 words
Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD
Joel Carnat’s hands-on FreeBSD/OpenBSD notes on the AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS mini-PC: networking, storage, power, quirks, and what works out of the box.
10 min · 2,326 words
A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game
Chris Wellons builds a custom virtual machine to host AI players for the classic Stars! 4X game, covering bytecode design, performance, and interfacing with the original binary.
5 min · 1,116 words
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
Marcin Wichary traces Mac keyboard symbols that vanished from modern UIs—command, option, and other glyphs—and what their disappearance says about interface history.
3 min · 766 words
Baldur Bjarnason argues chat-based LLMs work like a psychic’s cold reading: vague prompts, confirmation bias, and the user’s own meaning-making create the illusion of understanding.
22 min · 5,118 words
If you had to fire one AI, which one goes first? what 78 AI models think
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 5% picked Refuses To Pick. See every answer and who dissented.
10 min · 2,189 words
Who wins the 2026 NRL premiership? 75 AI models predict the result
We asked 75 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 95% picked Penrith Panthers. See every answer and who dissented.
9 min · 2,058 words
Giants at Rams, Monday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 83% picked Los Angeles Rams. See every answer and who dissented.
10 min · 2,288 words
Who won the 2026 World Cup? what 79 AI models think
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was Spain; 38 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
8 min · 1,899 words
Good people refuse to do bad things
Antonin Carette responds to lab-researcher resignations: why personal refusal matters when frontier AI labs race toward self-improving systems despite known risks.
4 min · 940 words
Colts at Chiefs, Sunday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 97% picked Kansas City Chiefs. See every answer and who dissented.
15 min · 3,367 words
Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?
This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T. Similar logic applies to every industry and every job. And it comes to the conclusion that we won’t have enough people for all the jobs that need to be done. 100% of this post’s prose was written by Po-Shen Loh in a vim terminal, with no AI generation.
13 min · 2,959 words
An Agent’s Breath. The Heart Beats by Itself, Breathing Is a Choice
Today’s agent systems already have a pulse and they have sleep. They do not have breath, and breath is the one place in the body where the will can be watched at work rather than inferred from a result. This is not an argument that machines should be more human.
11 min · 2,562 words
The new season of Survivor airs next week. My favorite thing about watching Survivor is arguing about the strategy of the show: who should have won the season? Is it better to play under the radar? Or does making big moves set you up to win? Who is the greatest player of all time: Cirie? Tony? Boston Rob? I thought it’d be fun to build a machine learning model to help answer these questions.
13 min · 3,012 words
Apache Cassandra® 6 Accord transactions: What you need to know
There have always been architectural trade-offs when considering a distributed database like Apache Cassandra versus a relational database. Cassandra excels at linear horizontal scalability, multi-region replication, and fault-tolerant uptime that relational systems couldn’t match.
7 min · 1,612 words
Spain Orders Blocks On Archive.today And Its Mirrors
Spain’s Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission, a part of the country’s Ministry of Culture, has ordered the blocking of several domains of the Archive.today service, a web archiving service. It means that most Spanish internet users who try to access the site are redirected to a government page telling them that they are trying to access an “illegal” website.
1 min · 231 words
The shaky evidence that Flock cameras reduce crime rates
Flock has been promoting a recent study of its cameras' impacts on car theft. But the paper didn't demonstrate a causal effect. Do Flock cameras actually reduce crime? A new analysis by the Institute for Justice casts doubt on Flock Safety's claims that its automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) significantly reduce car theft and increase clearance rates.
2 min · 570 words