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Recursive Self-Improvement, Straight Into Scrooge Musk’s Money Bin
Recursive Self-Improvement, Straight Into Scrooge Musk’s Money Bin Anthropic published When AI builds itself - Our progress towards recursive self-improveme...
La città di Acqua e Vetro: Steampunk Venice Deserves a Movie
La città di Acqua e Vetro: Steampunk Venice Deserves a Movie The visual impact is strong from the get-go. The book sets the scene well. I’m immersed. La Cit...
A Small DuckDB Embeddings Incident
A Small DuckDB Embeddings Incident DuckDB kept popping up in my feed, so I decided to try it for a fairly small project at work. At first it was great. I h...
Current Second Brain Setup - Obsidian as the IDE
Current Second Brain Setup - Obsidian as the IDE My current second-brain setup uses Obsidian plus Codex. I’ve used Obsidian for years as a personal wiki. No...
East India Company Trade or Seizure, and a Swarovski Nose
War elephants. Dragoons. A king with a rotten nose replaced by a diamond prosthetic. Another king blinded with needles by an opponent, then somehow outliving...