Volpe’s Blog

Had there been a time in the history of the United States when political assassinations - assassinations of public officials - were running at the rate of more than one and a half thousand per annum, as was the case in Russia in 1906, I rather shudder to…

I've been trying to make progress on a herculean task; I want decent looking programs for personal use which I can generate quickly using AI agents yet I'm a person without taste controlling an AI without taste.

The Wikipedia page on James Vicary (The "inventor" of Subliminal advertising) mentions that the CIA investigated subliminal advertising and found it to be somewhat useful.

If you see a nice picture on the Windows lockscreen and want to save it; Open file explorer and paste %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets Either a) Open each file with VLC1 b) Copy the files to…

I installed Linux Mint on an old Macbook Air for a relative, here are some notes.

I have a short term prediction in the Iran conflict.

Dwarkesh thinks continual learning is a bottleneck to AGI.

While perfecting the perfect shade of blue for links, which mostly entailed copy/pasting the values from the default google color picker I came across a (sort of) bug in tmux and simple fix.