Amanda Yeo for Mashable: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to cheating on his wife with a suspected Chinese spy. The company’s board announced that it is launching an independent investigation into the matter, with Huang’s cooperation. […] Allegations of Huang’s affair arose in a New York Times report last month. According to the report, U.S. spy agencies determined that a Chinese intelligence asset had been sharing information with the Chinese government. Specifically, the New York Times…

METR came out with an extensive report on how much AI is accelerating AI R&D at Anthropic, and thus how close we might be to recursive self-improvement (RSI) and how far that might go. This is one of the most important questions in the world. Their answer: Things are already accelerating on the order of a 2x speedup. This is several months ahead of the AI 2027 timeline. A naive extrapolation says we may be less than a year away from full RSI. There are no clear bottlenecks in the way. This…

Sometimes you have to teach yourself to produce work that is good enough. When we consume work from too many places and too many people, we develop a quiet sense of inadequacy. Our own work begins to look small and insignificant. We see someone else's work and devalue our own. Therein lies the problem. We cannot produce our best work without first producing a great deal of mediocre work. Good work is iterative. You will never create something you consider your best without first creating things…

A mild day with slight rain. Went for half a gallon of juice. Did usual. Brushed leaves round bins and off the drive. Cleaned No1 jet. No sign of Nu Ways as yet.

📷 296/365 - A portal to another dimension, or so how it looked like.

When you get a cold, the virus hijacks your cells and uses them to make copies of itself, destroying the cells in the process. The virus does not care about you. And yet, if you get a cold, your body doesn’t dissolve into a pile of virus-enriched goo as a result of all your cells disregarding survival to focus on virus manufacturing. Why? Well, you have an immune system. But also, if that did happen, other people would say, “Oh no, Alice has dissolved into a pile of virus-enriched goo; we…

Scottish actor Mark Bonnar is objectively one of my favorite male actors these days; he

A Mourning Gecko takes a drink from a Bird of Paradise flower.

Apps are getting way too big. That’s three quarters of a Gigabyte. For an email client? Digging into it more, the iOS (phone) app alone is still around 300 MB, with another 60MB for framework; 160MB for localizations and 100MB of assets, fonts and icons. Just insane.

Euclid’s fifth postulate says that given a line ℓ and a point P not on ℓ , there is a unique line through P parallel to ℓ. In the projective plane there are no parallel lines, and in the hyperbolic plane there are at least two lines through P parallel to ℓ. Recent posts have looked at finite projective and affine planes. This post will look at finite hyperbolic planes. Finite projective planes come up far more often in application than finite hyperbolic planes. I’ve seen several resources on…

The adventures I run the most, and the ones I most enjoy playing in, are about interacting with people. My ideal session is filled with running around different places and dealing with all kinds of different people and groups with different needs, goals, capabilities, relationships, connections, hierarchies and networks. Someone who’s in the way between you and what you want is the most OSR-style challenge that there can be: a person’s psychology can be as deeply ineffable, variable, and…

The previous post was on finite projective planes. This post will look at finite affine planes and the next will look at finite hyperbolic planes. Affine geometry is essentially what remains of Euclidean geometry if you keep the incidence properties, e.g. wanting to know whether things intersect, and forget about metric properties such as segment lengths and angle measurements. As with projective planes, affine planes can be finite. The axioms of an affine plane are as follows. Any two distinct…

Why is chain-of-thought reasoning always in language tokens? Can we build better reasoning models by removing that constraint? And what keeps them from going astray once we do?

JSSE v0.12.0 was tagged on October 26, a month after v0.9.0, which makes it a good point to look at the numbers again (two more releases came out while this post sat in draft, and I will get to those at the end). When I took stock of JSSE in September, the last section of that post was called "What's Still Bad", and it listed quadratic arrays, a bytecode VM that barely helped, no hidden classes and a benchmark that timed out. It also showed Boa beating JSSE by 2x to 4x on calls, closures and…

Shifty, the morning. We’ve fucked with time again, just as the day is shrinking, and I’m off kilter. Looked up in the morning sky in time to see a wide wave of small birds unroll, moving crosswise to the lowest clouds, which were moving faster than the higher clouds, which revealed some pale sky. Hard not to read signs and portents in all this change. But that’s just the human need to control things, right? Our need to know stuff ahead of time, what’s coming. We’re an anxious species. Jumpy as…

Hello from JST! We woke up to the cityscapes of Osaka, with the outlines of the distant mountains peeking through the tops of buildings. What a treat to be back. With conbini tea and onigiris in hand, we had some errands to run. And as V liked to remember me that almost every time we go to Japan, there's a specific errand, or an epic quest in her words, to run from the get go for me. But don't you worry, I managed to squeeze in an art supply store as well, just to balance it out. Eventually, we…

People often ask why we describe fiat currency as a lever of control. The question makes sense if you only learned about money the way most schools teach it. We look at how the system actually works in practice, not how textbooks say it is supposed to work. In short, you may think it's your money, but another entity (or entities) controls the access and use of it. Two recent events inadvertently showed what losing access can look like. In early November 2026, Paraguay’s largest digital bank,…

Review from: Thrown Together festival, National Centre for Circus Arts, London; 25th October 2026 I walk into the National Centre[…] The post ‘Thrown Together’ Juggling Convention, Day 2 appeared first on The Circus Diaries.

Itch.io is an anomaly on today’s web. It is independent, managed by a small team, and allow users to monetize their games with a lot of options. It has its ups and down, mismanagements and a huge problem of AI generated content, but they do way more good than they do harm, and I still believe they are worth our support. And recently, they added one more reason for me to like them. In a recent blog post, they announced that Flash games would now be playable again on their website, thanks to the…

Review from: The National Centre for Circus Arts, London; 24th October 2026 London hasn’t had a juggling convention for a[…] The post Thrown Together, London’s Juggling and Flow Arts Festival (Day 1) appeared first on The Circus Diaries.

The History of a Book written by a Man in a Window.Off to a New Home and Who Owned it LastThis book is on its way to a new owner in Tampa, Florida, which is more of an irony in its destination than it sounds.Where it spent its first hundred years, nobody knows.According to his daughter, sometime in the middle of the last century a man bought it from a second-hand dealer somewhere in Ontario and carried it home.This man was a writer, an artist and a reviewer, and a collector of books on peculiar…

Gerald Mohr in Guns, Girls, and Gangsters (1959) Vitals Gerald Mohr as Chuck Wheeler, slick armed robber and ex-convict December 1958 to January 1959, Nevada/California state line Film: Guns, Girls, and Gangsters Release Date: January 1959 Director: Edward L. Cahn Men’s Costumes: Einar Bourman WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background “Noirvember” continues with a post from the lean and lurid 1959 noir Guns, Girls, and Gangsters starring Gerald Mohr, a prolific mid-century actor who died 58 years ago…

Nodes is for those who care about the tiniest details in the things they use every day. It is a minimal and beautiful macOS-native Markdown editor built by two computer science students from Munich. Nodes works completely offline and without accounts or subscriptions. Text renders instantly and intuitively thanks to their open-source Markdown engine. It makes Markdown feel seamless and is built around Apple’s TextKit 2, so it’s right at home as a native Mac app. Think Apple Intelligence writing…

[WARNING: Bad word ahead! Clear out the kids!] Today is the start of Dear Santa week, so time to get those letters out to St. Nick, minions! This is when you tell Santa how you didn't murder anyone this year even though you really really wanted to, so you totally deserve that Benedict Cumberbatch body pillow and lifetime subscription to Wicked Whoopies. You know, just as a "for instance."[side eye]Of course, personally assessing your own "good" or "bad" behavior beyond non-murder can be a…

My trip to Japan was awesome, and I can’t wait to share more about it this week on Twitch and on the Podcast. Miles were walked, fun was shared, and stationery was acquired. There is a lot to discuss, and there is work to get back to. It’s time to ramp things back up through the end of the year, so come join me!

I’ve been pretty quiet because I have a lot to say about a lot of things. And when I get like this, then it’s best for me to remain silent until I process what’s really going on. But life doesn’t care if you need to process. Life keeps moving forward, as life always will. However, I wanted to share something with you that I’ve started doing in case you want to participate this month. MOON SALUTATIONS! When I was in Costa Rica, I practiced with two different yoga teachers. One of them introduced…

His Name shall be Wonderful, Counselor We sat in Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus and Isaiah 9 last night for family worship. Advent is right around the corner and we are getting excited. Charles Spurgeon put it this way, “Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms.” We both long for and celebrate Christ With Us.

When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift (Arcadia, 2025) Lucy was a child during the 2020 pandemic, living with her grandmother and watching the chimney swifts swoop into their tiny homes. Hester was born on the day of the Chernobyl explosion; years later, she visits the site to film the feral dogs surviving in the exclusion zone, and the doctors working to care for them. She will smuggle a pup back home with her, finding that keeping herself alive means keeping well this tiny charge. Through…

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Not the greatest name for a band. Or do you disagree with me? Religion. Is that a good name? Hard to google in any case. So bear with me as I try to find out more information about them. We know they were active in the late 80s. I know them through a compilation called “The Jamboree Bag” that was released in 1987 by Primitive Records (Prime 19). This label was based in Surrey and had released Mega City Four and The Trudy as well as other bands which I’m not familiar with. “The Jamboree Bag”…