The joke is that you have a software security problem, you use cryptography to solve it, now you have two problems: a software security problem and a key management problem.

These things here are emergency wreck buoys, and if you're thinking the colour scheme looks somewhat like a circus big top, just wait until you hear about the clown show that inspired their introduction.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

”Software development is in the process of bifurcating into two very different domains: disposable code and durable code.”

I remember an incredulous colleague a decade+ ago saying how silly it was for me as a marketer to have an ad blocker. I explained that I blocked ads because as a marketer, I - more than anyone - KNOW THAT ADS WORK. Yes, I intellectually know the tricks. AND THEY STILL WORK ON ME.

Excited to share our paper: "Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability"! We unpack a critical misconception in AI: models explaining their steps (CoT) aren't necessarily revealing their true reasoning. Spoiler: the transparency can be an illusion. (1/9) 🧵

The more reliable the system, the more surprising the failure mode when the rare failure happens

You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic. So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Anyway, if any department is interested in a TT colleague who can & has taught ancient, medieval & early modern, along with mil-hist (all times, all places, apparently), has an Oxford University Press book contract, multiple articles & a large, self-funding public presence...y'know, lemmie know. 🤷‍♂️

Vihreä siirtymä Espoossa.

Can we just call it a predictive text program? Pretending it's a sentient learning program is just real Emperor Has No Clothes, We've Always Been At War with Eurasia stuff. It gives me extreme cognitive dissonance.