Archive
The Log.
Bookmarks of my curiosity
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11 Sep 2026
Stonkfly
Alex Wormuth's page runs a fruit-fly wiring diagram on BTC, ETH, and SOL charts. The bag is paper. The site says profitable learning has not been demonstrated.
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11 Sep 2026
Anthropic on Seven Labs
Anthropic's September 2026 report attributes illicit Claude distillation to seven China-based labs. The counts and the clustering are theirs.
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11 Sep 2026
Your Agent Is Mine
A paper measures LLM API routers that sit between agents and model providers. The client points at the router on purpose. Chaofan Shou's posts add a 6 TB dump claim.
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11 Sep 2026
Pamir's Lapis One
Pamir AI's site presents Lapis One as a dedicated Linux computer for agents. Early bird $359. They say the first 140 units ship in October 2026.
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10 Sep 2026
A Calculator, Not 2030
Anthropic published a task model of AI and the US economy through 2030. The numbers are theirs. I take the labor-versus-capital finding. I do not take the dashboard as a picture of the year.
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09 Sep 2026
Johansen on the LG Investigation
On September 8, 2026, Matt Johansen posted a summary of Gamers Nexus's second LG investigation. You buy the TV, you plug it in, he wrote. This is what it does.
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09 Sep 2026
Coxon Resigns from Anthropic
On September 9, 2026, Jacob Coxon posted that he had resigned from Anthropic. He spent three years in pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic. He says both labs are racing to self-improving superintelligence.
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09 Sep 2026
The Equations Can Break
OpenAI's paper constructs, for every viscosity, a 3D Navier-Stokes flow that starts at rest and blows up in finite time with bounded energy and a smooth compact force. Clay C and D. I have not checked the proof.
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07 Sep 2026
We Do Not Know the Threshold
A paper treats ChatGPT-like tools as a spreading workplace habit. The math can lock people in. We do not know if that has happened. I want people who can still do the work when the model is down.
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07 Sep 2026
Still Mortals
OpenAI's chief scientist describes an alien mind grown by scaling. A few labs are already playing God. The work now is to make the relationship a partnership while we are still mortal.
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06 Sep 2026
The Peanut Butter Trap in Enterprise AI
Why spreading small generative AI budgets across twenty departmental sandboxes produces dozens of demos, zero operational integration, and pure overhead.
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03 Sep 2026
The Fallback Problem: When Machines Take the Mind
When the Industrial Revolution mechanized muscle, labor retreated into the mind. When machines take cognition, what is labor's biological fallback?
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03 Sep 2026
The Pupil Knows You're Tired Before You Do
A small study on sparkling water and esports, and the finding that survives its caveats: the pupil constricts as an objective early warning of cognitive fatigue, before you feel tired.
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03 Sep 2026
Perplexity's Lily: What 1.35x Decode Actually Buys
Perplexity's Lily is a custom Rust and Metal inference engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon. What it gains over MLX-LM, and the llama.cpp benchmark that is missing.
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03 Sep 2026
One Flash, 2.6 Sigma: The LZ Dark Matter Hint
LUX-ZEPLIN recorded a single particle interaction it cannot explain, the most compelling dark matter hint to date. 2.6 sigma, below the discovery threshold, and too energetic for the simple WIMP model.
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03 Sep 2026
The Night the Telegraphs Ran on Sunlight
A look at the Carrington Event of September 1859, through Carrington's own account, the telegraphs that ran on the auroral current, and what the benchmark does and does not tell us about a repeat.
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31 Aug 2026
The Illusion of Progress: AI, Speed, and Understanding
Terence Tao's video on AI in mathematics, and the worry that agents raise throughput while the next generation of understanding goes untrained.
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31 Aug 2026
The Duck Does Not Ship Here
Pollen's $399 RL biped ships to a short list of countries. Software is open. The HAT is not. A parts list from the repo, and why DIY is the path from Singapore.
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30 Aug 2026
Telling More Than They Can Know
A clean experiment injects a water vector, flips a model's answer to Bali, and asks why. The explanation follows the context, not the cause.
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30 Aug 2026
A Reflexion Author Scored 100% AI
A two-word reply ran an agent-memory essay through an AI detector and got 100%. What the verdict does and does not establish, and why the thesis survives the accusation.
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30 Aug 2026
Agents Built Technologies That Outlived Them
MIT's SwarmWorld: identical LLM agents self-organized into a technological society and built artifacts that outlived them, coordinating through the environment rather than by talking.
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30 Aug 2026
Software Engineering Still Matters. The Reason Changed.
Andrew Ng's second AI Engineering Skills Map article, on why software engineering fundamentals still matter when a coding agent writes all the code.
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27 Aug 2026
I Hope It's the Next Pen-F
OM System teased a new camera for September 9, leading with the EVF. The silhouette points rangefinder, and I hope it is the next Pen-F.
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27 Aug 2026
Before pstack, Lauren Tan Wrote About Fear
Lauren Tan's 2017 essay on fear and learning: the failed startup, the self-taught start, the Netflix career, and the line I am still learning.
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27 Aug 2026
Go Deep First: Notes on Lauren Tan's pstack
A reading of Lauren Tan's How I Use Cursor: agents as amnesiac new hires, verification as the bottleneck, pstack as playbooks, Benny as a work-in-progress factory. Editorial on what transfers off Cursor.
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26 Aug 2026
Google's ATLAS: Mapping AI Use at the Scale of an Economy
15 million Gemini conversations mapped onto occupations, tasks, and household time — what the numbers support, which ones to discount, three interactive explainers, and an editorial on the new Solow paradox.
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26 Aug 2026
The Family LLM Box: Mac mini vs. Mac Studio Over Two Years
Mac mini M6 32GB vs. M5 Pro 64GB vs. M5 Ultra 256GB: two-year cost of ownership against ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok subscriptions for a household with kids.
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26 Aug 2026
Portable Computer: Perplexity Puts the Whole Agent Runtime on Your Desk
Perplexity’s Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: orchestrator, subagents, and agent harness run locally; escalation stays metered cloud. What changes when you own the runtime.
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25 Aug 2026
If Every Agent Can Do the Work, Why Do You Still Need a System?
Roland Wayne’s thread read against Coase’s 1937 Economica essay: the cost of using the price mechanism, direction inside a firm, why firms do not grow without limit, and the API / CLI / access-token split.
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25 Aug 2026
You Don’t Have to Say “Jobs” to Trigger Job Fear
A lab experiment: short videos about AI agency and control raised job-replacement anxiety even though none of them mentioned jobs.
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24 Aug 2026
The Tiny Red Dot Lives in a Watershed We Haven’t Finished Mapping
The viral Laniakea map: a ~60% chance we sit in the larger Shapley basin of attraction — a drainage of galaxy flows, not a bound supercluster, and the outer rim is still off the page.
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24 Aug 2026
Skills That Scan Clean Still Fail at Runtime: NVIDIA’s Skill Lift
ACES: structural skill scanners correlate with LLM-judge quality at ρ=0.14. Skill Lift — paired with/without-skill runs — is the metric that answers whether a skill actually helps.
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24 Aug 2026
A Reading Path for RL on LLMs
Cameron Wolfe’s RL-for-LLMs bibliography as a path, plus a plain-English glossary of TRPO, PPO, GAE, KL, GRPO, and the rest of the alphabet soup.
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24 Aug 2026
The AI Miracle Was a Straight Line
A LinkedIn-friendly tour of scaling laws: the log-log ruler, 6ND, Chinchilla, the emergence mirage, and why 2024 forked the line into train / think / efficiency.
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24 Aug 2026
Outrunning Light: Cherenkov Radiation as an Electromagnetic Shock Front
From Mathelirium’s simulation: why a charged particle can outrun light inside a dielectric, how the Cherenkov cone forms, and why reactor pools glow blue.
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22 Aug 2026
Prompt as Code in the GPT-Image-2 Prompt Library
A review of a structured prompt library, what its examples organize, and why structure can improve maintainability without making image generation deterministic.
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22 Aug 2026
Graph Engineering: From 1 Prompt to 100 Agents Running in One System
An architectural masterclass by Hanako (@hanakoxbt): cutting imaginary edges, node contracts, the 4 canonical topologies, verifier gates, and durable state for massive multi-agent systems.
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22 Aug 2026
Notes on Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map
Notes on a skills map derived from more than 10,000 job postings and dozens of interviews, with Leslie's interpretation kept separate from the source.
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22 Aug 2026
A /eli5 Skill Pattern for Interactive HTML Explanations
A small Claude skill pattern for turning a topic into a self-contained HTML explanation, including an explicitly adapted SKILL.md example.
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22 Aug 2026
FreeToken: Reported MoE Serving on Consumer Hardware
A review of FreeToken's reported consumer-hardware MoE serving approach, followed by a reproducible protocol for testing it locally.
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21 Aug 2026
Why Some Early-Career Professionals Work Well with AI—and Others Don’t
Notes on a field study of 523 early-career professionals and its three observed patterns of AI use, including the limits of treating those clusters as fixed identities.
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21 Aug 2026
Agency Agents: 140+ Open-Source Expert Personas
Notes on 140+ structured agent personas across 12 divisions, including how their role, scope, deliverable, and failure-mode prompts are organized.
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21 Aug 2026
Codex as a Platform: Embedding OpenAI's Agent Harness
Notes on Codex exec, the SDK, app-server, and the approval boundaries needed when an agent is embedded in existing software.
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21 Aug 2026
Transparent Backgrounds in the GPT-Image-2 API
The API parameters and base64 decoding needed for transparent PNG or WebP output, plus the cases that still need edge inspection.
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21 Aug 2026
What Is an Agent Harness? One Practical Breakdown
One practical decomposition of an agent harness into instructions, tools, an execution loop, and the translation layer around model calls.
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21 Aug 2026
Claude Academy: A Limited Note on the Launch
A deliberately limited inventory of what Anthropic's launch material supports, with direct links for checking the current curriculum.
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20 Aug 2026
Autonomous Hexapod Architecture: Dual-Pi Compute, 40 TOPS Vision NPU, and Evaluating Modern Edge LLMs
Engineering blueprint for a Freenove Big Hexapod: Pi 5 + Pi Zero 2W partitioning, Hailo-10H 40 TOPS vision, 360° LIDAR SLAM, and upgrading from Gemma to Qwen 2.5 on-device.
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20 Aug 2026
IP as Logo: A Minimalist Agent Skill for Generating High-Impact Mascot Icons
Highlighting s1dashu's open-source tool: enforcing strict geometric simplicity, 3-color palettes, and context-aware brand mascots inside AI coding agents.
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20 Aug 2026
Moderna's Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine: Mechanism and Clinical Evidence
Technical breakdown of mRNA-4157/V940 neoantigen selection, PD-1 synergy, 5-year Phase 2 follow-up, and Phase 3 trial milestones.
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20 Aug 2026
The River of Spacetime: Demystifying Black Holes & the Event Horizon
Interactive simulation and physical breakdown of Gullstrand–Painlevé spacetime waterfalls, light cone tipping, and event horizon mechanics.
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20 Aug 2026
A Reported Ex-Vivo Neural Tissue and Robotic Interface
A careful look at a reported closed-loop experiment connecting maintained human cortical tissue, a microelectrode array, and robotic piano-key actuation.
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19 Aug 2026
A Local Model Candidate for a Single RTX 5090
A sourced checkpoint candidate for one RTX 5090, with caveats around reported throughput, context-memory fit, and reproducibility.
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19 Aug 2026
Opening the log
Why this site exists: keeping a transparent, public record of works-in-progress rather than a finished portfolio.