Scott A on Scott A on Scott A

Scott A on Scott A on Scott A Scott Alexander has put up one of his greatest posts ever, a 10,000-word eulogy to Dilbert creator Scott Adams, of which I would’ve been happy to read 40,000 words more. In it, Alexander trains a microscope on Adams’ tragic flaws as a thinker and human being, but he adds: In

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9493 · January 18, 2026

Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly

Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/compiling-scheme-to-webassembly/ · January 17, 2026

Raspberry Pis new AI HAT adds 8GB of RAM for local LLMs

Raspberry Pis new AI HAT adds 8GB of RAM for local LLMs Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi’s CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W,

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2/ · January 15, 2026

First impressions of Claude Cowork Anthropics general agent

First impressions of Claude Cowork Anthropics general agent

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/#atom-entries · January 12, 2026

Raspberry Pi Pico Mini Rack GPS Clock

Raspberry Pi Pico Mini Rack GPS Clock I wanted to have the most accurate timepiece possible mounted in my mini rack. Therefore I built this: This is a GPS-based clock running on a Raspberry Pi Pico in a custom 1U 10" rack faceplate. The clock displays time based on a GPS input, and will not display time until

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/pico-gps-clock-mini-rack/ · January 12, 2026

Cosmotechnics and AI Reading Hamid Ismailovs We Computers

Cosmotechnics and AI Reading Hamid Ismailovs We Computers For decades after Racter first composed The Policeman’s Beard is Half-Constructed (and likely for decades before that), the creation of machines that compose poetry has served as a quixotic pursuit for a small subset of artist-computer scientists enthralled with the challenges of computational linguistics. Today, however, such a pursuit feels quaint. In

https://seanvoisen.com/writing/cosmotechnics-and-ai/ · January 12, 2026

My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs

My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/11/answers/#atom-entries · January 11, 2026

FREEDOM while hoping my friends stay safe

FREEDOM while hoping my friends stay safe This deserves to become one of the iconic images of human history, alongside the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square and so forth. Here’s Sharifi Zarchi, a computer engineering professor at Sharif University in Tehran, posting on Twitter/X: “Ali Khamenei is not my leader.” Do you understand the balls of steel

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9481 · January 11, 2026

Dont fall into the anti-AI hype

Dont fall into the anti-AI hype I love writing software, line by line. It could be said that my career was a continuous effort to create software well written, minimal, where the human touch was the fundamental feature. I also hope for a society where the last are not forgotten. Moreover, I don’t want AI to

http://antirez.com/news/158 · January 11, 2026

Flys new Spritesdev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

Flys new Spritesdev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/sprites-dev/#atom-entries · January 9, 2026