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
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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
SentencePiece BPE Tokenizer in Go