Category: big bits

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tek’s weekend warriors: 3.3.26

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“..it only took a weekend..” Suddenly, since December, a hashtag turns to a meme — meme-coding… vibe code an app, or a library over your weekend. the hack is back. ez enough for your ceo.

it seems folks are, again, trying to make something with less effort, offering proof of the improvement by publishing the cost to code. the gavel has fallen .. when the cost is zero, what comes next ?

do you take extra big gulps of air; why not, it’s free .

“… Tenzai found that applications built by five major AI coding agents — including Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Replit, and Devin — all contained significant vulnerabilities. The agents performed well on well-known vulnerability classes like SQL injection and cross-site scripting, but poorly on authorization logic and business logic..”

“– Silicon Valley is reporting for duty. No longer do we regard the military complex as destructive. It isn’t even complex. Just do it, quickly. Toss out the mistakes, or, perhaps leave it to the next round to cleanup. The Valley Brain is the new brain. The new MAN wears green. A willing warrior class of millionaires.

ooh, teach me how. let me play. when do I get my tattoo.

The initial cohort of this program will include the CTOs of Meta and Palantir, Andrew Bosworth and Shyam Sankar, respectively, as originally reported by The Wall Street Journal. It will also include OpenAI executives Kevin Weil, chief product officer, and Bob McGrew, chief research officer. This evening I will become an officer in US Army Reserve as part of Detachment 201, the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps,”

When the Nerd Reich marches into battle, it will be in a bunker behind a paywall. Say hello to the new fortunate son.

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Dr. Dobbs era, Hackers were coders without a license .. saw a need so built something to reveal a gap; to start the Pearl . Hackers also began with internal commitment . Dobb’s was a small mimeo publication in the days of smaller than small publications. A time of mail art. A time of flux among the commons. Intermixing of Snow’s culture.

Snow’s cultures

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, the lecture argued that the breakdown of communication between the “two cultures” of modern society – the sciences and the humanities – was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. 

Have we seen this before? Everyone a programmer. Problem with your business, with your life… do something fast, before your competitor does.

just in, Knuth paper re Claude successful solution

winterizing AI

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Since last November I have been aggressively reading about and testing AI systems in familiar topics. in the months since November I’ve read ,on average, seven articles a day … These have resulted in several static pages along with a dozen draft posts ..time for a marker..

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.H.P. Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulhu

THIS

the types of queries i’ve posed are about details of silicon valley as business and social model. additionally, i have asked for code snippets. these they provide readily… even being able to translate cross languges, with one suprising failure: mistaking dartmouth basic as the DART language.

none of the models correctly answered chem questions from this bank of texts.

photochem old standard:

  • Glafkides, P., “Photographic Chemistry”, 
  • James, T. H., “The Theory Of The Photographic Process”, 
  • Neblette, C.B., “Photography:Its Principles And Practices”,
  • Nietz, A. H., “The Theory of Development”,
  • The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 3rd edition and 4th edition. Volume #6, Color photography
  • Haist ”Modem Photographic Processing” 

software engineers have been able to engineer an assistant . And it delivers conversation as though it were in a Sand Hill meeting . The enthusiasm amongst the programming and SWE community is increasingly joyous … they will be able to eliminate low level jobs .. They also Believe they will be able to eliminate all of those jobs that they never understood and never liked .. HR and marketing ..

it can code because the compiler error checks .. those fields without intermediate verification systems are subject to failure of vocabulary — it sounds good..

AI is right now the child of Silicon Valley– The silicon valley of the internet age — electrons on clouds. Fantasy of the 40s …

The avalanche has occurred … clawbots drive mac mini sales… 3 weeks agp the claw popped onto swe dashboatds.

AI winter watch: 11.25 -> 2.26

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this isn’t tuesday: 2,13 -26

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beyond information ordering… a midden. I intend to find out. Bits from about the place… promising not to promise too much.

behind the scenes. I am behind in my postings. Many too many drafts.

digital enlarges beyond the page.

amateurs have more restrictions than professionals; they impose more rules upon themself and other amateurs. this is particularly true amongst Artists, amongst photographers and other self described creatives . Setting standards of thought, by way of controlled dictionaries. A -graph or a -gram. What do you insist others call it>

  • –graph[ French -graphe, from Late Latin -graphus, from Greek -graphos, from praphein, to write
  • –gram [ Greek -gramma, from gramma, letter
  • Sometimes a photograph creates a photogram. often, I called them[dye transfers] glyphs[from carving]

like all social functioning, the art world is not singular.

More closures[around the artworld]:

  • London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery Closes for Good amid Insolvency Proceedings
  • The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow will shut down after thirty-three years, with all staff losing their jobs. Funding withdrawals, operational deficits, labor disputes, and political protests compounded pandemic-era setbacks.

–/James L. Enyeart, the second director of the CCP from 1977 to 1989, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on November 28, 2025. He was 82.

This Is Spinal Tap (1984), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), Misery (1990), and A Few Good Men (1992)….

a year ago the price was $6.79 ..

high achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies .. unfinished sidebar

Obi, N., Kojima, Y., & Shigcmitsu, Y. (1999). Production of superhigh contrast by dyes. The Imaging Science Journal, 47(1), 43–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13682199.1999.11736452

GLYCIN Notes:

N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)glycine (glycin) is synthesized by reacting p-aminophenol with chloroacetic acid. This reaction typically occurs in a solvent and results in the formation of glycin, which is then purified. Other less common methods for synthesizing related compounds exist, such as using glyoxylic acid, but the p-aminophenol and chloroacetic acid reaction is the most direct and widely cited route. https://www.google.com.sl/patents/WO1995018093A1

Glycin, if made using pure regents in a clean, precise method, lasts at room temperature for several years. Kodak brand glycin, “Kodurol”, [alt, Athenon]is still light color after 40 years in storage. Glycin which lasts mere months is less pure. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/N-_4-Hydroxyphenyl_glycine#section=FTIR-Spectra

John Conway … mathematician… “Game of Life” is how most knew him

college systems provide acess to AI as regular feature for text ..

is there a difference between the paid form of agent? Impulse response answers, YES. While correct, it is incomplete since the full answer is in what the diff is —

Free, tracks you, saving responses as well as datasets. The paid versions assert they do not track nor store your data. In addition, they promise your data can’t leak ..

typical price levels seem like discount club member tiers, one such:

Free, $20/month, $200/month. At different prices, different tracking or “prompt-leak” as the newest term on the software stack.