Show HN: Phantom – Open-source AI agent on its own VM that rewrites its config
An AI co-worker with its own computer. Website · Get a Free Phantom · Docs · Issues AI agents today are disposable. You open a chat, get an answer, close the tab, and the context is gone. Next time you start from scratch. Every session is day one. Phantom takes a different approach: give the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
TL;DR I use an Excalidraw, wrap the elements of interest with a frame, name it with export_ prefix, my forked excalidraw extension automatically generates SVGs for light and dark mode. Using Excalidraw I used Excalidraw a lot in the past. When breaking down a technical problem for myself When explaining a concept or an architecture […]
VHDL’s Crown Jewel
In this post, I would like to talk about VHDL’s crown jewel: how it preserves determinism in a concurrent language. Here is a figure of how it works: What you see is a simplified example of VHDL’s delta cycle algorithm in action. Delta cycles are an HDL concept used to order events that occur in […]
Copilot edited an ad into my PR
After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast. This is horrific. I knew this kind of bullshit would happen eventually, but I didn’t expect it so soon. Here is how platforms die: first, they are […]