- Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
I've been dicing onions all wrong. And I finally understand why chefs make that horizontal cut into an onion, prior to dicing!
- Do we understand how neural networks work? – by SE Gyges
No. No we don't. This is a really good primer on the reality of working with LLMs – that we just don't really know how they work.
Tag: llm
Bookmarks for July 1, 2025
- Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) Anthropic
Fascinating set of insights into how far an AI agent can go, and how it breaks down. The other thing I find refreshingly honest, is the tone of the company who make the thing, openly saying "we have no idea why it did this". That bedrock fact underlies all LLM development, and any "AI" company who claims to truly, properly, understand their product is lying.
Bookmarks for June 12, 2025
- What are people doing now?
A live breakdown of what most people one earth are doing right now, by reasonable guess at likely activity.
- Cthulhu's ABCs: A Heavy Metal Muppet Parody Song about the Alphabet – YouTube
Exactly what it says on the tin. A delight.
- My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts ยท The Fly Blog
This is taking a delibarately provocative stance, sure, but it's also true, and moderately funny reading. (Side note: it's also kind of why techbros are so certain AI is coming for everything *and* enthusiastic about it – it's a already taken away some of the parts of their job they find full, and they think it'll do that for every job – although this chap is a little clearer-eyed.)
Bookmarks for April 25, 2025
- logiscape/mcp-sdk-php: Model Context Protocol SDK for PHP
A way to use PHP to extend an LLM and give more context, this could be very useful at work
- Netflix Codes: find hidden categories on Netflix
I'm mostly just interested in the way this feels both madly granualar and weirdly arbitrary. What's a "Christmas children & family films for ages 5 to 7", and where's the line between that and "Goofy christmas children & family films". And what if a christmas film is both British *and* Goofy? And are there really so many "hijacking movies" that they need their own subcategory? Apparently so…