I have just realized that Il Post released part of an interview I gave on the topic of vibe coding a few months ago (article in Italian). I have many problems with the term Vibe Coding, but I suspect the expression will gradually fade, and it will return to being just “coding”, like wireless phones …
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Plotting an equirectangular SVG onto stereographic projection
Github repo. And by plotting, I mean both converting vector coordinates and tracing the result on a piece of paper. Because it all starts with a pen plotter and a love for mini planets. It always amazes me when I seem to be the only person on the planet to have a given problem. No …
I think this music video majestically wraps up the creative zeitgeist of the second half of 2025. Source
Calcomp Pacesetter 2024/2036 Manual
I salvaged a pen plotter from the early ’90s. The owner, a retired architect, was ready to free up some space in their home after decades of disuse. The unit was in fair condition and required hardly any maintenance: some cleaning, tightening of a belt, and a slide rail that needed lubrication; after that, it …
What I love about this quote is that both the word “computer” and “accountable” share an etymology that traces back to the concept of adding up numbers.
A mismatch between the problem that a system developed to solve and the task that it is given can have significant consequences. Just as the human drive to obtain sweet and fatty foods can be maladaptive in a world where those foods are easily available, the autoregressive tendencies of LLMs can cause problems when they are given a task that is not next-word prediction.
Embers of autoregression show how large language models are shaped by the problem they are trained to solve
I love it that the junk_food / information_diet metaphor can also be applied in reverse, where the entities feeding on the wrong stuff are machines and not humans.
https://docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/releases/v0.6.html
This was an interesting read.
Today’s incarnation of GPTs is nothing more than a collective subconscious: different prompts will elicit different personalities and responses from them.
Private memory and individual fine-tuning of model weights according to private experience are of course required, but we need more than that. One hangover from the era of Big Data is the belief that all data must be preserved for later use. The reality is that we just get a bigger and bigger pile of rubbish that is harder and harder to make sense of. Humans don’t do this. When awake, humans remember and reason, but when dreaming, humans distill, discard, and connect higher concepts together. Random-walking LLMs on proximity graphs can do this, and the constraints are no longer measured in gigabytes but instead in minutes (hours) and joules (calories). AI also needs to rest, reflect, and sleep, after all.
Ziyang Hu
i made a gif that conveys my sense of loss more than million words
