The Dollar’s Self-Expulsion
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Sanctions meant to protect the dollar system are driving trade elsewhere,
while debt and speculation hollow out the productive economy.
The post %%post_ti...
AI #183: Pre Post Mortem
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Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened
leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal
model, as well a...
Readers’ wildlife photos
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Susan Harrison of UC Davis is back with some nice photographs of birds,
including Barred Owls. Nearly half a million of these owls are scheduled to
be shot...
Steve Jobs in Exile
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We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple
from becoming a footnote. And we’ve all heard the story of how, in 1985, he
wa...
The calibration hoax
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from Lars Syll There are many kinds of useless economics held in high
regard within the mainstream economics establishment today. Few — if any —
are less d...
Math after AI
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For a very long time, my favorite activity was to sit and think about
mathematical questions. Staring at a blank sheet of paper, trying to grasp
in my mind...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
The Mantle
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As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock
does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and
the mine...
Anthropic’s LLM watermarking
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So yeah, Anthropic has announced that it’s now watermarking the outputs of
Claude, using a scheme based on Google’s SynthID, which is in turn based on
the ...
A week of fika: ACM ICER 2026
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A peaceful Wednesday night by the water.
By the end of this academic year, I needed a vacation. It was a year of
major disruptions to my federal research f...
ECDO Theory Interactive Globe
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An interactive globe showing the basic key features involved in the
Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander (IITPW) proposed by ECDO Theory.
A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story
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Please indulge me in this promotion of my new book ‘A Pentridge memoir: a
political prisoner’s story’. A few readers might be interested and, as the
book i...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
In Defense of the Marginal Baby
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This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together
here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to
increment thei...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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