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,...
Beware Change-Blocking Priors
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“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there
is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” John Kenneth
Galbraith
Mechanize: Evals for Frontier AIs
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This post is for some friends at Mechanize - a startup that builds
environments for training and evaluating frontier LLMs.
The War America Cannot Admit It Lost
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Michael Hudson joins Professor Lau Kin Chi for the South South Dialogue on
Sustainability to discuss the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz,
de-dollarisation...
Open State Foundation zoekt nieuwe directeur
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Bij de Open State Foundation (waar ik voorzitter ben) zoeken we een nieuwe
directeur! Herken jij je in het profiel (PDF), en ben je net zo bevlogen
als ons...
RIP Climate Etc.
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by Judith Curry It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and
move on. Well, the definition of victory here is about as fuzzy as that for
th...
Quick Thoughts on Wealth
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from Dean Baker Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar payday from the IPO of SpaceX
has hugely amplified the public’s focus on extreme wealth inequality.
Musk’s econ...
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...
The Hypostasis of The Archons
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Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The
Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work
which I ...
Call for workshop proposals: FOCS 2026
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[Guest post by Sam Hopkins] We invite groups of interested researchers to
submit workshop proposals for FOCS 2026 by July 31, 2026. The FOCS 2026
workshops...
An academic year aburst
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[image: An orange and blue sunset against the Puget Sound.]The sunset in
Edmonds, WA, late summer 2025.
It’s the first Monday after the end of my 2025–26 a...
Octonions and the Standard Model
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Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the
Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional
Jordan alge...
iTunes extension for Scratch
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In this post, I want to share a new Scratch extension I made today. It uses
the iTunes Search API to let you search for songs, and play 30 second
previews ...
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...
Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01
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Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it
first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice
Admiral Jo...
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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