2026-08-05
Effective Leadership Is About Outcomes Not Simply Interpersonal Skills
Being good with people is an important part of leadership, but it is not the same as being a good leader.
Cloudflare increases LLM concurrency through precision reduction without quality loss
Cloudflare published a blog on how they serve Kimi K2.6 and GLM 5.2 at scale, and the memory math behind it is worth digging into.
Ordinary Matter Is Just 5 Percent of the Universe. On 30 August NASA Launches a 300-Megapixel Telescope Built to Map the Other 95.
Everything astronomers can see directly — stars, planets, gas, dust, people — accounts for about five percent of the universe. Roughly 27 percent is dark matter and 68 percent is...
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side...
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side...
Director Eli Roth seems to think the Borderlands movie sucked too: 'You got something that belonged to nobody'
The budget blew out, and so did the scrutiny of executives.
The AI Race is Not a Prisoner's Dilemma
Statement on AI use: AI models (mostly Fable 5 and Opus 5) were extremely helpful in 1. iterating through lots of variations on the game theory models presented, 2. helping...
Dover MCP
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‘I Called Her the Missile Battleship’: US Navy Nuclear Cruiser USS Virginia Was Built for a Fight With the Soviet Navy
USS Virginia entered the Navy's nuclear-ship recycling program at Puget Sound in 1999 and was taken apart. One piece of her survived: a 43,000-pound Mk 26 twin-arm launcher, half of...
The Drones Are Hitting Moscow: Ukraine Is Turning Russia Into One Big Target
Ukraine on Tuesday executed a series of drone strikes on an industrial zone near Moscow, and across the whole country, strikes on three warehouses killed five people and wounded ten,...
Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics
If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather ahead. Onboard weather radar is a useful tool that pilots...
★ OpenAI Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit and Motion for Preliminary Injunction: ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’
A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary.
750 Horsepower: A US Army Officer Told US Why the M60A3 Tank Was Ready to Fight Russia
Without the efficacy of the M60A3, there could never have been the Abrams. The M60A3 should go down as an important Cold War relic for the United States and NATO.
Why I think we live in a "simulation"
Epistemic Status: I think each part of this piece is worth engaging with in its own right. I haven't thought as much about whether the ideas presented here add up...
‘You Know She Was Retired Too Early’: Battleship USS Iowa Was 57,000 Tons, Fired Tomahawk Missiles, and Had 16-Inch Guns
USS Iowa was commissioned on 22 February 1943, decommissioned in 1949, recommissioned for Korea in 1951, decommissioned again in 1958, recommissioned under the Reagan buildup in 1984 and paid off...
Returning to ARC
I've returned to the Alignment Research Center (ARC) as executive director. My main focus for the next six months will be driving forward ARC's research agenda—building techniques to find mechanistic...
Geometric Rationality acts linearly in additive scenarios
There have been various attempts to explain Kelly betting behaviour within standard decision theory. Here is one I would totally unbiasedly recommend. Geometric rationality is a frameworks which instead takes...
All the surprising rock climbing and kayaking VFX challenges on ‘Apex’
How Charlize Theron survives the Australian wilderness. The post All the surprising rock climbing and kayaking VFX challenges on ‘Apex’ appeared first on befores & afters.
Roots and the Meaning of Life
They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as...
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