Agam Brahma
Driftwood is an experimental runtime I've been building for stateful AI agents (the kind that remember!). Each agent is a WebAssembly actor whose full state can be snapshotted to disk, killed, and restored (ideally/eventually, even under a different model than the one that created it).I've written...
Jeffrey Wang
An interesting file system feature that I came across a few years ago is sparse files. In short, many file systems allow you to create a logical file with "empty" (fully zeroed) blocks that are not physically backed until they get written to. Partially copying from ArchWiki, the behavior looks...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK03 :: Approximate Thinking ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. On Incomplete Knowledge, Identities, and Social Inertia In this part of the “Edge of Knowledge” exploration, we go after a weird truth: approximate thinking is the operating system of knowledge,...
Damien P. Williams
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less they hew to factual reality. Which: Yeah. A bunch of us told you this. Again: the Purpose of LLM- type “AI” is...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. What if the very core of knowledge is not certainty, but incompleteness? Let’s continue the provocative journey from the optimism of Hilbert’s program, his dream of a perfectly...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. In this episode, we navigate the nature of uncertainty, not as a modern inconvenience, but as an essential feature of reality, knowledge, identity, and creativity. What if uncertainty is...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E014 :: Disney – How to Create Markets out of Imagination & Culture ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. Disney transformed storytelling into a logistical and emotional empire.. How did this happen? Who is Walt Disney, and what is Disney, really?What can...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E013 :: Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) In this Creativeness Dive, we embark on a reflective journey into the intricate universe of M.C. Escher—the...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E012 :: Decoding Leonardo Da Vinci: The Creative Polymath ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) The Polymath.A man beyond discipline—blurring lines between painting and physics, anatomy and poetry, mechanics and music. He...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E011 :: The City’s Alchemy : Systems of Innovation, Disparity, and Creativity] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) “Cities are places with pollution, crowds, and inequalities… Yet most people on the planet fight for a chance...
Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick)
This is adapted from ‘The Lorax’ by the Great Dr. Seuss. If you have not read his work, please do. His stories teach beautiful lessons through the use of whimsy and wonder. I love Dr. Seuss, so this is a thing I do. If you like it, there are links to others at the end. I make no guarantees...
rholmes
[Diagram describing the “interaction between a script to generate a planting plan and data generated from the soil and salinity analyses”, from Philip Belesky’s research project “Processes and Processors”.] I recently encountered the work of Philip Belesky, a PhD candidate at RMIT’s Spatial...