Tue 01 September 2026 misc What is a Large Language Model? How do AI work? An explainer with minimal math.
Sun 16 August 2026 misc The grim and depressing landscape of Reddit communities Another one of these graph t-SNE plots but this time for reddit
Fri 07 August 2026 misc Twitter isn't a town square, it's a high school cafeteria Twitter data shows distinct clusters of users, and differences in how tightly different groups of users cluster explains the relative success of different groups on social media
Sat 25 July 2026 misc Maybe we should revisit microkernels IOMMU and other hardware features that are standard today solve the problems that made microkernels not viable in the 90s
Sun 28 September 2025 misc Slop Machines How image and video generating models interact with feed recommender systems
Thu 18 September 2025 misc Announcing the Machine Ghosts podcast This blog now has an accompanying podcast