Stray observations, and marginalia.
These are fragments gathered along the way—moments marked, links worth noticing, and passing thoughts. Inclusion does NOT imply endorsement.⁂
If you have to do homework, at least do it somewhere beautiful.
"Apple built an LLM into your Mac. apfel gives it a front door."
apfel.franzai.com
First Friday, Bryan, TX.
Caveman for Claude: "75% less word. Brain still big."
github.edu/
Rose snapshot.
"Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I'd been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 - Anthropic's hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I'll have to revise my opinions about "generative AI" one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving." — Donald Knuth
stanford.edu/
Steps on the path.
Father of PageMaker, and coiner of "desktop publishing," dies.
geekwire.com/
"Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases."
newscientist.com/
From a matplotlib maintainer: "An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library."
theshamblog.com/
"New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or http://claude.ai/code"
claude.com/
"We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models"
anthropic.com/
Claude Code can now modernize COBOL code
claude.com/
False spring is really here.
27-year-old Apple iBooks can still download official updates from Apple.
reddit.com/
"The Most Expensive Party Balloon in History": on El Paso's airport shutdown.
https://log.jasongodfrey.info/
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
openai.com/
"Addressing the risks of AI will require a mix of voluntary actions taken by companies (and private third-party actors) and actions taken by governments that bind everyone."
darioamodei.com/
"Vibe coding actually works. It creates robust, complex systems that work. You can tell yourself (as I did) that it can’t possibly do that, but you are wrong. You can then tell yourself (as I did) that it’s good as a kind of alternative search engine for coding problems, but not much else. You are also wrong about that."
stephenramsay.net
Cormac McCarthy notes on writing for science:
gwern.net