Quantum fault-tolerance milestones dropping like atoms Update: I’d been wavering—should I vote for the terrifying lunatic, ranting about trans criminal illegal aliens cooking cat meat, or for the nice woman constantly making faces as though the lunatic was completely cracking her up? But when the woman explicitly came out in favor of AI and quantum computing

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Ivan Illich on how technologies create radical monopolies As society moves to replace what have traditionally been analog processes and infrastructure with digital equivalents—a phenomenon rapidly accelerated by COVID-19 and our desire for “touch free” interaction—it has become increasingly difficult to get by without access to a smartphone. From restaurants foisting QR codes for access to menus on

Teresa T is name of the whale in Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay

Notes on the Euler formula

Calling LLMs from client-side JavaScript converting PDFs to HTML weeknotes

In Support of SB 1047 I’ve finished my two-year leave at OpenAI, and returned to being just a normal (normal?) professor, quantum complexity theorist, and blogger. Despite the huge drama at OpenAI that coincided with my time there, including the departures of most of the people I worked with in the former Superalignment team, I’m

What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower? A few months ago, our AM radio hot dog experiment went mildly viral. That was a result of me asking my Dad ‘what would happen if you

Time Machine Backups Using Proxmox Ubuntu and an External USB Drive This guide assumes you already have a Proxmox host, at the time of writing v8.2 was current, which is what I used. It also assumes you have a basic Ubuntu 24.04 VM running on that host. If not, you should set that up first. The VM can be fairly minimal;

Building a tool showing how Gemini Pro can return bounding boxes for objects in images