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Latest — Mar 27, 2025

The Cynic Wasps in the Beehive

We call her the Queen Bee, evoking images of large hats, courts, and command. In reality the Queen Bee is a slave to the hive, laying thousands of eggs a day. She does not command anything. Bees function through a complex system of chemical communication in a deeply decentralized fashion.

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A Different Kind of Camera

When the camera was invented, painters were worried they would be replaced. Upon seeing an early photograph, French painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed “From today, painting is dead.” We now know that painting has not died. Painting is alive and well. However, the camera did change what kind of paintings we

All Watched over By Machines of Insanity

In Adam Curtis’s TV series “All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace”, he outlines a future where machines create a static and powerless world. A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates how AI trained on data AI itself generates leads to model collapse. Maybe Adam Curtis was wrong!

AI Efficiency and the Acceleration of Everything

Imagine preparing for a really long hike. There are bears and cougars out there. You need to decide whether to bring bear mace and a gun. They take up precious space in your backpack and over a long hike will slow you down, make you use more energy, and therefore

Accessing Dell Server Remotely Using iDRac

Do you need to access a Dell server remotely using iDRac outside it’s intranet? iDRac, or Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, is a powerful tool that allows for remote management. It uses a dedicated IP and operates through a web interface on HTTPS (port 443). Here’s a step-by-step

Bugs Faster than the Speed of Thought

I got access to OpenAI’s GPT-3 last year and one of the first things I did was prompt it with a C++ interface struct and have it write the implementation. I was generally surprised by the results. Some of the completions were even code that was clearly from Github

Tools Were Made & Born Were Hands

If you haven’t read the famous old school rant Worse is Better from Richard Gabriel, you should. Richard never really decided if he was right or wrong, and even wrote a rebuttal under a pseudonym called Worse is Better is Worse. After over ten years of thinking about it,

Deep Latent Space Maps

As I watch my children grow up, I am always amazed at their pace of learning. It turns out by 18 the average person learns about 60,000 words which average about 9 words a day. Typically these new words are learned by as little as one example of the

We Must Become System-System Thinkers

Everyone building software must become a system-system thinker. A system-system thinker is someone who understands that the system they are building is part of a larger whole of other systems. The software we build is part of a more significant system that extends beyond the computer screen and network packets.

Bar Charts With Julia

I was writing a new article for Merit and I wanted to make some charts and graphs. I used to use gnu octave for my data analysis needs but recently saw a tweet from Grady Booch about trying Julia which has a matlab esque sytnax. However, it being like matlab