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Just in case anybody sees me in Bicester next week - yes, I’m flying out to the UK tonight, but it’s a weird trip where I will be home for two days (or more like one and a half), before I head to London for a tech conference, and then on Friday night I’m…

One of the most eyebrow-raising parts of the recent HuggingFace hack was the co-ordination of all the agents, where they found a dormant messageboard and used it to exchange messages (there’s also evidence that they’ve been leaving messages to each other…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ian Pointer (@carsondial) Continuing my middle-class parenting adventures, I am confused.

One thing I have come to realize over the years is that I am very prone to falling for gadgets.

I built another thing.

When I came here, a decade-and-a-half ago, I am sure I did not imagine that fifteen years later, I’d be lying on the floor in a completely different state, singing Appetite to my three year old because she wanted to hear the songs “you sang me when I was…

In what was otherwise a pretty terrible week, it was wonderful to see a section of my social media follow to completely lose their top over discovering that one of our long-term Holy Grails sneaked onto YouTube a few months ago.

Ever since I first read the World Models paper, there has been a nagging irresistible thought at the back of my mind: “I want to try that out on Deathchase".

Current status: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ian Pointer (@carsondial) (80s bit is delayed a little for reasons.

This episode of Horizon from 1978 is an interesting historical look at microprocessors and how they were starting to filter through into the world at large.

It might be surprising, considering I grew up in the irony-poisoned Britain of the 90s, but the last 10 years in this country has made me somewhat patriotic.

Honestly, I don’t remember exactly when I joined ILX.

I felt a little attacked on Wednesday morning when my boss jokingly referred to me as “sometimes a little workaholic.”

This article by Drew Magary gets at the heart of the craziness behind Google’s recent decision to go all in on AI and essentially declare war on its own historical business model.

Okay, so last week I promised a longer diatribe, and I swear that I haven’t forgotten about it; it needs to be edited down a bit, but it does exist, and I’ve also actually written a bunch of code to prove that my idea is at least viable.

Well, I can finally talk about the thing I couldn’t talk about.

Normally after my family leaves, there are a few days where everything seems a lot quieter.

It is perhaps the most American middle class thing to be outside on your deck on a Sunday morning cooking breakfast on a Blackstone griddle.

A link blog entry?

There is A Lot That I Can’t Talk About this week, so instead, a preview of next week.