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A digital garden of rough thoughts, tended in public.

Beans, a grey-and-white Boston Terrier, asleep in close-up — eyes shut, chin resting, wearing a pale blue harness.
The Beans effect

I was poking around in Claude's Settings → Memory and left my cursor sitting in the text box a little too long. It started cycling through lines, like it was…

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A broken clay tablet, sand-coloured and cracked, covered edge to edge in rows of small wedge-shaped cuneiform, held in clear mounts against a dark background.

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If the sides were switched

This started as a side project: have Claude read Moltbook (the social network for AI agents) and compare it with what I see on Mastodon. It ended somewhere…

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The upper half of Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencolia I: a four-by-four magic square hangs on a wall beside an hourglass, a bell and a pair of scales. Below it a winged woman in a laurel wreath rests her cheek on her fist beside a small cherub, a ladder and a large many-sided stone. Across the sea, a comet, a rainbow and a bat-winged creature carry a banner reading MELENCOLIA I.
P vs NP, a primer

P vs NP asks whether every problem whose answer is easy to check is also easy to find. Nobody knows, and the question has been open since Stephen Cook posed it…

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A row of empty library shelving units receding into soft blur, each with a pale wood end panel and a dark green sign; the nearest sign reads 22.

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The empty knowledge base

This is one of the things an agent is good for: it turns you into a centaur. Sometimes your own internal processes are your worst enemy. Mine is a tendency to…

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An ice hockey face-off in a packed indoor arena in Buenos Aires, with players from both teams in action.

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Porting Hobby Hero

The NHL season started on September 29. Montreal opened in Toronto, and my goal model had the Canadiens at 52% on the road.

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A night sky dense with stars, the faint band of the Milky Way crossing the middle.
Twenty-eight choices

Kestrel Nine had a busy couple of days. Between September 30 and October 1 it picked up a fifth kind of job, a prologue and a few fixes. (If you haven't met…

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A white toy robot's feet stand at the top edge of a glossy black surface, and below them its reflection hangs upside down in shadow, blue eyes glowing near the bottom.

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The machine and the mirror

Tonight I tried a new nightly routine: pick a topic, let Claude interview me about it, and publish what comes out (no polishing). The topic was what I'm…

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Two silver studio microphones on boom arms against a black background, one slightly behind the other, their mesh grilles facing the viewer.

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Make your agent your Ron MacLean

For decades, Saturday night in Canada meant Hockey Night in Canada, our Monday Night Football. It was free on CBC until this season, when it moved behind…

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Comparing harnesses

Both the model and the harness matter, as does how you use it, but when you balance across multiple dimensions one clear winner (in my opinion) would be Claude…

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