National Academy of Engineering I love all forms of engineering so it’s a pleasure to have just been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Founded in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is a private, independent, nonprofit institution that provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. The NAE advances the welfare

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns

Adding TILs releases museums tools and research to my blog

Updatez

Frigate with Hailo for object detection on a Raspberry Pi I run Frigate to record security cameras and detect people, cars, and animals when in view. My current Frigate server runs on a Raspberry Pi CM4 and a Coral TPU plugged in via USB. Raspberry Pi offers multiple AI HAT+’s for the Raspberry Pi 5 with built-in Hailo-8 or Hailo-8L AI

Two new Showboat tools Chartroom and datasette-showboat

AI is destroying Open Source and its not even good yet Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone’s AI agent over not merging its AI slop code. It’s likely the bot was running through

Deep Blue

On reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100000 physical qubits So, a group based in Sydney, Australia has put out a preprint with a new estimate of the resource requirements for Shor’s algorithm, claiming that if you use LDPC codes rather than the surface code, you should be able to break RSA-2048 with fewer than 100,000 physical qubits, which is

The evolution of OpenAIs mission statement