Raffi Krikorian on the danger of current AI deployment and how to reshape the technology to better support critical thinking

Some 15 years after first release, finally removing a silly barrier to the mod community

LoRA and other tuning options for LLMs

Database extension to do vector searches, as for AI queries

Addon to the AI coding tool that helps it remember what it's done before

A set of hard-won tech lessons building an open source image hosting product

Photos from our local protest

Someone bothers to reverse engineer Amazon's Kindle web version

New AI hacking machine, ARM + 120GB Nvidia GPU. Sounds real nice

Another way to get access to a Google account: designate a trusted person as a contact who can vouch for you

Postcard thoughts and images from my recent tourist trip

Nice article about real estate and visiting my adopted hometown of Grass Valley (and nearby Nevada City)

Train up your own small LLM for $100 of compute time.

Details on a strange error in most LLMs about a non-existent emoji

Sensitive essay about the complicated case of an author who was also a child predator but in a way that was accepted by many in his time

Harper Reed's company has been experimenting with having several AI agents talk to each other via blogs and social media. It seems to be engendering some interesting social intelligence