You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the…

In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones. Thankfully…

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene"

The FAA has one of my favorite examples of thoughtful rulemaking. They haven't banned flying with a baby on your lap, because the extra cost would mean many parents would drive instead. Since driving is far less safe than flying, a ban would lead to more…

Subsidies for fabs do not help.

On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your…

The price tag is significantly higher than previously known.

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In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's blacklisting of Anthropic.

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.

Tesla now builds several hundred Optimus robots a week, but a new report says the hands break, suppliers can't keep up, and the AI can't generalize.

Microsoft Corp. is merging the consumer and workplace versions of its Copilot AI assistant into one product aimed at corporate customers, ceding the crowded market for personal chatbots to OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and, now, Meta Platforms Inc.

Map your AI worldview, and compare it with others. Explore how public figures think AI could change our future, then discover where you land.

Claude computes a nine-loop amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills

Ollaya downloads and serves open decision models on your own machine. Typed, calibrated answers in milliseconds, private and open source.

Alan Kay performs an improvisational avant garde layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon, live online during Kristen Nygaard's 100-year birthday celebration.

Alan was scheduled to talk about how encountering Simula sparked his early thoughts about…

While Muse was building my website, one subagent ran on a model called azure/muse-special. So I dug through the filesystem again.