How to Turn Anything into a Router
I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models. This is ridiculous for many reasons, but if this does indeed come to pass it may be beneficial to learn how to “homebrew” a router. Fortunately, you can […]
Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass
I was doomscrolling Reddit at 1am (as you do) and someone had posted a video from the New Zealand Transport Agency. Road workers near a tunnel by Milford Sound kept finding their traffic cones in weird places. Dragged into the road, rearranged, sometimes actively rerouting traffic. Nobody could figure out what was going on, so […]
Do your own writing
When you write a document or essay, you are posing a question and then answering it. For example, a PRD answers the question, “What should we build?” A technical spec answers, “How should we build it?” Sometimes the question is more difficult to answer—“What are we even trying to accomplish?” And with every attempt at […]
Intuiting Pratt Parsing
2026-03-26 You already know that a + b * c + d is calculated as a + (b * c) + d. But how do you encode that knowledge precisely enough for a machine to act on it? The most common solution employed by compilers is to make use of a tree known as an […]
How the AI Bubble Bursts
The catalysts for a crash are already laid out, and it can happen sooner than most expect. AI is here to stay. If used right, chances are it will make us all more productive. That, on the other hand, does not mean it will be a good investment. Big tech doesn’t need to win, just […]
Set the Line Before It’s Crossed
Be prepared to act when the time comes. Lines Will Move Further Away If They Aren’t Defined Three types of lines exist in the policy and behavior sense: Soft: These are okay to cross, but not preferable. There may or may not be a tangible action taken afterwards, but the person whose line was crossed […]
Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
Gain access to system functionalities buried deep in System Settings or ones that require writing Terminal commands. Control the macOS User Interface. Keep the Mac awake during long tasks and quickly turn off displays when needed. Mass Eject External Drives in a safe way. Quickly switch Audio Output devices. Mute the Internal Microphone for privacy. […]
Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
Abstract:Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name popularly given to a broad spectrum of computer tools designed to perform increasingly complex cognitive tasks, including many that used to solely be the province of humans. As these tools become exponentially sophisticated and pervasive, the justifications for their rapid development and integration into society are frequently called into […]
JSON Canvas Spec
Version 1.0 — 2024-03-11 Top level The top level of JSON Canvas contains two arrays: nodes (optional, array of nodes) edges (optional, array of edges) Nodes Nodes are objects within the canvas. Nodes may be text, files, links, or groups. Nodes are placed in the array in ascending order by z-index. The first node in […]
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models
Machine learning feels recent, but one of its core mathematical ideas dates back to 1952, when Richard Bellman published a seminal paper titled “On the Theory of Dynamic Programming” [6, 7], laying the foundation for optimal control and what we now call reinforcement learning. Later in the 50s, Bellman extended his work to continuous-time systems, […]