keypnchr — fieldnotes

Field Note · June 23, 2026

2026-06-23T00:00:00-05:00

"MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility [from Microsoft] for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines."

github.com

"The Coming Loop"

lucumr.pocoo.org

"Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore"

filippo.io

Field Note · June 8, 2026

2026-06-08T00:00:00-05:00

Apple Core AI. Yes.

apple.com

A case for why every lab should have explicit AI-use guidelines.

substack.com

"AI Cannot Afford To Slow Down — It Needs $3 Trillion Or More In Revenue By End Of 2030 To Sustain Its Existence"

wheresyoured.at

Field Note · May 7, 2026

2026-05-07T00:00:00-05:00

SQLite recommended as archiving format by LOC sqlite.org

LOC-recommended data archiving formats loc.gov

Field Note · April 7, 2026

2026-04-07T00:00:00-05:00

"Apple built an LLM into your Mac. apfel gives it a front door." apfel.franzai.com

Field Note · April 5, 2026

2026-04-05T00:00:00-05:00

Caveman for Claude: "75% less word. Brain still big." github.edu/

Field Note · March 9, 2026

2026-03-09T00:00:00-05:00

"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/

Field Note · February 25, 2026

2026-02-25T00:00:00-06:00

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/

Field Note · February 24, 2026

2026-02-24T00:00:00-06:00

"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/

Field Note · February 18, 2026

2026-02-18T00:00:00-06:00

27-year-old Apple iBooks can still download official updates from Apple. reddit.com/

Field Note · February 12, 2026

2026-02-12T00:00:00-06:00

"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/

Field Note · January 27, 2026

2026-01-27T00:00:00-06:00

"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/

Field Note · December 10, 2025

2025-12-10T00:00:00-06:00

"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

Field Note · September 22, 2025

2025-09-22T00:00:00-05:00

Cormac McCarthy notes on writing for science: gwern.net

Field Note · September 10, 2025

2025-09-10T00:00:00-05:00

UCLA digitized Hearst newsreels from 1929 to 1967 newsreels.net

Teen-agers in their bedrooms, before the age of selfies: newyorker.com

Field Note · September 8, 2025

2025-09-08T00:00:00-05:00

Better late than never — iPad native Instagram app available instagram.com

White paper: Why Language Models Hallucinate openai.com

Field Note · September 4, 2025

2025-09-04T00:00:00-05:00

Not new, but worth not missing: "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory expands Claude for Enterprise use to empower scientists and researchers" anthropic.com

Field Note · August 6, 2025

2025-08-06T00:00:00-05:00

OpenAI releases two open-weight models.

"The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks and can run on edge devices with just 16 GB of memory, making it ideal for on-device use cases, local inference, or rapid iteration without costly infrastructure" openai.com

Field Note · July 25, 2025

2025-07-25T00:00:00-05:00

Google kills their link shortener

Another in a long line of services killed off by Google. theverge.com

Field Note · July 11, 2025

2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00

LLM Inference reference

bentoml.com

An individual created 184 billion Bitcoin one day in 2010

decrypt.co

Field Note · November 1, 2024

2024-11-01T00:00:00-05:00

Wide-Angle X-ray scattering dates Shroud of Turin to first century

https://doi.org/

Alexander the Great’s tunic identified in Greece

https://www.tandfonline.com/

M4 Pro faster than M2 Ultra. "…you can now purchase a Mac mini with a 14-core M4 Pro for $1,599 in the U.S. and get similar to faster peak performance than a Mac Studio with the 24-core M2 Ultra"

https://www.macrumors.com/