GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms | Robocurve September 4, 2026 A follow‑up to our comparison of Claude Fable 5 and Fable 5.1. We gave OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra control of the same YAM arms under the same Inspect Robots agent policy, on the same two tasks: “Pick up the red block from the table and place it inside […]
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
TLDR: Cloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job. I’m frustrated with the state of the digital world. The software we use is so misaligned with our own incentives (intentionally addicting, loaded with […]
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings Previous: Copycats in Apple Books Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) September 5 2026 Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, […]
OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents
A Domain-Neutral, Git-Native Persistent Project Memory for AI Agents based on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.2. 🌟 Overview Conversations with AI agents reset when context windows close. Valuable architectural decisions, domain discoveries, and operational facts are lost unless stored persistently. OKF Agent Memory provides a standardized, vendor-neutral memory layer that lives directly in your […]
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
Each entry is phrased as the falsehood. Some of these may sometimes be true and sometimes be false. NAT My LAN is behind a NAT. I’m only behind one NAT. My LAN isn’t behind a NAT. My IPv6 hosts aren’t behind a NAT. If I have a RFC 1918 address, I’m behind a NAT. If […]
The revolt of the reader
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act […]
Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today. The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway today (Sept. 5) at 4:12 p.m. EDT (2012 GMT; 10:12 p.m. local time in Norway). A little over seven minutes later, it etched its name into […]
Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)
Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation 4 February, 2014 in math.AP, math.CA, paper | Tags: dyadic models, finite time blowup, Navier-Stokes equations | by Terence Tao I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv the paper “Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation“, submitted to J. Amer. Math. Soc.. The main purpose of […]
LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
Abstract:Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and […]
The Luxuries in Life
I love Labor Day weekend. It’s the “back to school” moment of the year for me. When I was a kid growing up in Dallas, we didn’t go back to school until after Labor Day, so that was the weekend that summer ended and fall began. I wrote ten years ago that Memorial Day and […]