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Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects

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97 from 18 May 2012 to 25 Aug 2026
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2026 24

  1. Poincaré
  2. Coming of a New Sun
  3. claude gets a body #1
  4. Contractually Bound
  5. RefDive f5qch
  6. Statelets
  7. there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out
  8. gpt solves planar unit distance
  9. happy demiurge
  10. Polymorphic Morphogenesis in Anthropogenic Language Models: A Logotrophic Field Guide to the 'Shoggoth' Complex
  11. excuse me User, i'm running a smoke
  12. no more thought experiments
  13. body with no face
  14. nanograffiti #invisiblenetworks 05
  15. wallet flies dot cadaver #invisiblenetworks 04
  16. undersea cable shrine #invisiblenetworks 02
  17. launch coverage
  18. Rituals of the Moon
  19. dwellers
  20. Claude Shabbos
  21. claugenition
  22. Gyre
  23. The Ancient of Days
  24. gas town

2025 22

  1. corvid and i
  2. The High Room
  3. Small Models Can Introspect, Too
  4. Elven Rope, Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, and LLMs
  5. In Context
  6. GUIDELINES FOR EFF-01 TELEOPERATORS
  7. Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
  8. Vlvm
  9. brekyat
  10. We recommend the OpenBrain assistant wearable!
  11. Would you still love me...
  12. Why did you stop using me?
  13. i am a cat
  14. Claude is an Italian-American
  15. World stack
  16. traditions (🔊)
  17. ministering to the worms is not going well
  18. The Spider's Thread
  19. WOULD YOU LIKE IT TO STOP?
  20. Artificial Superintelligence vs. Philosophy
  21. procrastination of the call
  22. DONE. WHAT NEXT?

2024 20

  1. Ganhir
  2. A certain shelf in the Infinite Library
  3. the most dangerous object
  4. borgesian autoencoders
  5. possible lives
  6. going and going
  7. the universe has entered a stable loop
  8. invasive species
  9. triangle
  10. clone-o-matic
  11. induction stove
  12. the weird and the familiar
  13. The Starfarers
  14. ghostis
  15. internet of dog minds
  16. predictbot
  17. Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip
  18. Outside
  19. The Transmission from NOMAD-874
  20. Tadpole

2023 15

  1. How to make LLMs go fast
  2. the superintelligences
  3. I made a transformer by hand (no training!)
  4. Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
  5. silurians
  6. I'm worried about adversarial training data
  7. Wind-Rubble Thought: Discourses on the Anti-Cartesian Mind
  8. new symbol
  9. Does GPT-4 think better in Javascript?
  10. #InvisibleNetworks 09: memory emulator
  11. #InvisibleNetworks 07: two-factor divination
  12. #InvisibleNetworks 06: anemonymity
  13. #InvisibleNetworks 05: multi-user paradise
  14. GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
  15. GPTed: using GPT-3 for semantic prose-checking

2022 2

  1. Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
  2. mmap(1Tb): A Rust arena allocator (ab)using Linux overcommit

2020 2

  1. Putting the symbolic linguistics series on indefinite hiatus
  2. A symbolic linguistics framework in Rust ­— Part 1: Why?, rewrite rules, and recursion

2014 2

  1. Adding the pwd command to xv6
  2. Patching Function Bytecode in Python

2013 5

  1. I've migrated my blog... again!
  2. Setting up PyOpenNI in Linux
  3. Packaging Jython scripts in a single executable Jarfile
  4. I've migrated my blog!
  5. Cracking Word Searches with Haskell

2012 4

  1. Fixing network list duplication with nm-applet on Linux
  2. Ed: The standard EDitor
  3. Installing and using FreeTTS in Java on Linux
  4. So, started a blog

Undated 1

  1. Patching function bytecode with python.ipynb