Dropbox, loved by the masses, a shareholder dead end
I have been doing research on companies, reading 10-Ks, etc. I have been doing research on companies, reading 10-Ks, etc. Coming across Dropbox, I felt conflicted. Drew Houston is a great founder, and the Dropbox story is one of many lessons, including an 800 million dollar acquisition offer from Steve Jobs. ICloud went on to […]
The Human Is the Loop
11 Aug 2026 I recently stepped away from AI for a few weeks. Coming back, I’m more aware of the unhealthy habits I’d formed using it. It was an end-of-summer vacation, and I was lucky to be swimming in cold rivers, eating one too many s’mores, napping after lunch, etc. There was a lot of […]
Company Offering ’100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is 100% AI
Research Gold, a site that advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it’s “100% human-written, never AI,” and lists a number of PhD reviewers and professional methodologists on staff that carry out this meticulous, difficult work. The problem: The PhD reviewers Research Gold lists on its […]
The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab’s blue blood
CHATHAM, MASS. (WHDH) – A familiar sea creature that has helped save lives for decades may now need saving itself. Early each summer, horseshoe crabs crawl up on Massachusetts beaches to mate. “They are just lots of males here looking for some action,” one volunteer said. This time of year gives volunteers a chance to […]
CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today exercised its emergency authority in response to KalshiEX, LLC’s notification of a market emergency and ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles. KalshiEX, LLC notified the Commission of the emergency after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed […]
pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries
Continuing our investment in pg_clickhouse, improving pushdown coverage for analytic workloads has remained our top focus, with full pushdown across the TPC-H benchmark suite as our immediate metric. We’ve had a lot of progress since our last update in June, including on the TPC-H scoreboard, which we haven’t really talked about since our introductory post […]
Compression Is Prediction
I was reading about compression recently when I stumbled upon something crazy: that compressors and LLMs are, at their core, trying to solve the exact same problem. In this post, I’m going to walk us through the basics of compression to understand its deep relationship with language modeling. It’s probably going to blow your mind. […]
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3 model family with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the highest-efficiency model in its class for long-running agentic AI workloads. This release follows Nemotron […]
Making holograms with a pen plotter
I have a pen-plotter! It’s great. It’s like having a printer but slow and it breaks more often. I got it on eBay and it came sorta broken and I immediately spent the difference between what I paid and the price of new one fixing it. Now it’s fixed! My favorite thing to do with […]
The Tradeoffs Facing Japan’s Economy
This past week’s US-Japan collaboration on shoring up the Japanese yen leads to the question—what’s wrong? Why is the Japanese yen getting so weak, and is there something wrong with the Japanese economy? Japan has one of the largest debt-to-GDP ratios and is particularly disadvantaged due to the Iran War driving up oil and energy […]