Stray observations, and marginalia.
These are fragments gathered along the way—moments marked, links worth noticing, and passing thoughts. Inclusion does NOT imply endorsement.⁂
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
UCLA digitized Hearst newsreels from 1929 to 1967
newsreels.net
Teen-agers in their bedrooms, before the age of selfies:
newyorker.com
Better late than never — iPad native Instagram app available
instagram.com
White paper: Why Language Models Hallucinate
openai.com