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The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase 5 2025 Edition Sorry for the long blog-hiatus! I was completely occupied for weeks, teaching an intensive course on theoretical computer science to 11-year-olds (!), at a math camp in St. Louis that was also attended by my 8-year-old son. Soon I’ll accompany my 12-year-old daughter to a science camp in Connecticut, where

The imp of optimization Most workday afternoons, I leave my desk, set my Slack status to “away,” and take a meandering forty-minute walk around my neighborhood. This open secret between me and my coworkers—a habit I stumbled into a few years ago—has proven immensely beneficial to both my psychological and physical well-being. After a

Reverse engineering some updates to Claude

Darlington Nuclear Generating Station The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station just outside Toronto has four CANDU nuclear reactors with a total output of 3,512 MW. It generates about 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity needs, enough for roughly two million homes. I recently toured the facility on a quick business trip to the area. Darlington Nuclear

Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

Decoding Meshtastic with GNURadio on a Raspberry Pi Decoding Meshtastic with GNURadio on a Raspberry Pi I’ve been playing with Meshtastic a lot, since learning about it at Open Sauce last year. I’m up to 5 little LoRa radios now, and I’m working on a couple nicer

Recording vintage CRTs with a modern Sony mirrorless camera Recording vintage CRTs with a modern Sony mirrorless camera Growing up, I remember recording CRTs with any camera was an exercise in frustration. You would either get a black bar that goes across everything, a slowly moving ‘shutter’ of

My 25 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now using GLM-45 Air and MLX

Recently 1 Socrates Stoicism and the joy of lingering Over a year ago I promised myself I’d write regular updates about what I’ve been doing and reading. Unfortunately, I never really developed that habit. Sadly, my last update was in June 2024. Part of the reason I stopped writing these updates was that they felt just a bit too