911 in Berkeley Note: Of course I’ve been glued all week to the dramatic developments in AI. I’m working on a post about them. I’m not good at reacting to things in a timely way. So today, I’ll do my post marking the tragedy a quarter-century ago that we all commemorate. Please feel

Some thoughts on the NavierStokes Millennium Prize Problem

OpenNMC is an open replacement for expensive APC management cards UPSes are typically the most boring part of your homelab, but they’re important. One of their main jobs is to give servers time to shut down safely if the power goes out. Another job is to condition your power so your servers can run smoothly. To do both of those things

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

OpenAIs rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I dont get Telstrad In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia’s cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it

Claudes new system prompt really doesnt want to reproduce song lyrics

Claude Fable 51 made me a really nice animated pelican

LLMs and self-referentiality I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when young was that the secret of intelligence (and therefore, of AI) was going to have a lot to do

Understanding ChatGPT Work