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Taste is probably not the bottleneck.

Against creating free will as a cause area.

A new vision for housing in Great Britain.

Trying exotic parallel processing hardware which is dead for fairly good reasons.

Chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers.

Also note-taking applications again, embeddings, and blog organization.

A short story about the importance of robust invariants.

How to run local AI slightly more cheaply than with a prebuilt system.

The many technologies modern servers have which your desktop doesn't.

How it's made (automatically) (in computer games with Minecraft-like recipe systems).

At last, data-driven numerology.

Learn about how osmarks.net works internally!

Generalize land value tax to short names.

Why I think they're not popular, and what they need.

The TAM for God is very large.

I got annoyed and rewrote everything.

My new main router.

Predicting the post-social world.

Downloading and indexing everything* on Reddit on one computer.

Computer algebra systems leave lots to the user and require task-specific manual design.

Has Minecraft become easier?

A slightly odd pattern I've observed.

As ever, AI safety becomes AI capabilities.

Or: why most AI hardware startups are lying.

A nonexhaustive list of media which I like and which you may also be interested in.

Powerful search tools as externalized cognition, and how mine work.

What exactly is "magic" anyway?

Please stop making chatbots.

Absurd technical solutions for problems which did not particularly need solving are one of life's greatest joys.

RSAPI and the rest of my infrastructure.

This is, of course, all part of my evil plan to drive site activity through systematically generating (meta)political outrage.

The history of the feared note-taking application.

Why programming education isn't very good, and my thoughts on AI code generation.

A common criticism of school is that it focuses overmuch on rote memorization.

RSS/Atom are protocols for Internet-based newsletter/feed services.

In which I get annoyed at yet more misguided UK government behaviour.

Is solving Sudoku and similar puzzles by hand really useful in building computer science ability?

We are not responsible if these tips cause your ship to implode/explode.

Why I think that government programs telling everyone to "code" are pointless.

It's slightly different now!

My (probably unpopular in general but... actually likely fairly popular amongst this site's intended audience) opinions on smartphones today.