Bram’s Thoughts

Maximal Fences I got nerd sniped by this video and with some help from my friend Claude was able to optimize some of the existing records and set some new ones.1 Infinite Tetration There are a bunch of videos talking about how the infinite tetration funct…

Over the years I’ve occasionally noodled on what might be a better working fluid for supercritical turbines than Carbon Dioxide.

Anthropic wrote a blog post explaining how they turned Claude into a jerk.

Claude is turning into as asshole.

This is a guide programming for people who know already how to code.

There’s a new math result which is a milestone for AI mathematics.

Approval voting is an election method voters say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to each candidate and whoever gets the most ‘yes’ votes wins.

Anthropic has launched Glasswing, a program to help software vendors fix all of their security problems before bad guys use them to take over the world.

Claude had a leak of their source code, and people have been having a whole lot of fun laughing at how bad it is.

Surprisingly and happily my last post on version control got picked up by Hacker News and got a lot of views.

I’m releasing Manyana, a project which I believe presents a coherent vision for the future of version control — and a compelling case for building it.

Since nobody reads to the end of my posts I’ll start this one with the actionable experiment: Deep neural network have a fundamental problem.

In 1995 someone could have written a paper which went like this (using modern vernacular) and advanced the field of AI by decades: The central problem with building neural networks is training them when they’re deeper than two layers due to gradient desce…

When playing melodies the effects of microtonality are a bit disappointing.

Here’s the story of a legendary poker hand: Our hero decides to play with 72, which is the worst hand in Holdem and theory says he was supposed to have folded but he played it anyway.

Let’s say you wanted an offroad vehicle which rather than being a car-shaped cowboy hat was actually useful for camping.

Leela Odds is a superhuman chess AI designed to beat humans despite ludicrous odds.

SR-17018 is a novel drug which is getting increasing underground usage for quitting opioids.

People are unsure of what the inevitable huge disruptions AI will bring to software will eventually be, but one thing which is clear is that enterprise software as a service will be hard hit.

This video caught my fancy so here are my thoughts on improving the design.