I'm going to log off for the weekend. Please don't waste yours in front of a screen.

#Nepal is a constant visual overload. Wherever you look, there is something to grab your attention.

I'll shamefully have to admit that I bought something from a company because influencers I like are being sponsored by them. I've got "influenced."

Can't believe it's November already.

Today is especially awful. I'm just happy when the day is over.

Today's the first really cold autumn morning. Refreshing.

I need more adventure in my life! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhAu...

Seasonal depression is turning my every day tasks into a struggle. I'll never complain about the summer heat again.

We suffer from a lack of "stilles Kämmerchen"

burning the commons for a tiny fraction of its value

I'm going to log off for the weekend! Hope you spend it with your friends and family.

Claude is kill status.claude.com

Substrate tingled my bullshit sensor when I read the recent FT article about them. Happy you've looked deeper into it! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It's dire.

For a split second, my Kindle contained less than 20 unread books

I wrote some stuff about the internal markup Anthropic uses in Claude

Returned home to find a plate of chocolate chip cookies that my wife baked before heading to work! As she's working late today, I'll return the favor and surprise her with homemade pizza.

Language models can correctly answer questions about their previous intentions. www.anthropic.com/research/int...

He literally repped the "AI" sex chatbot that told someone to kill themself. How in the world is that not relevant here.

5 trillion dollars

Another example of the increasingly common situation where AI helps an academic with intellectually challenging work (solving a 42-year-old open math problem). Seems like real value in combining expert human guidance and increasingly powerful LLM. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23513

The Butlerian Jihad was bad, actually

Goal for next year: lose ten pounds

you never know when you won't be able to anymore.

One area where AI has a lot of potential is in weather forecasting and climate modelling. Fairly accurate weather forecasting, in particular, is something that many of us now take for granted. From my latest Substack: www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/artificial...

ChatGPT has over 800 million users. Given the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and psychotic disorders among the global population, I don't think these numbers are related to or caused by LLM usage. techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...

My American oomfs: have fun with baseball! I'm heading to work.

Cycling through the dark, the rain, the wind. Ultimate freedom. In those moments you know a better world awaits.

I'm under surveillance

Using Claude Code to fix my LaTeX formatting

Effective Altruism is back, baby! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVD...

Hey 👋

Sadly, a Vitamin D supplement is not a simple fix for seasonal depression.

I still have regrets about being lazy as a teenager. I missed out on a lot of general knowledge.

Anki is so useful. Wish I had used it more when I was a pupil.

Good post from @vgel.me on "LLM psychosis" and how it's not really psychosis. x.com/voooooogel/s...

It's heartwarming that my mom installed Signal just to talk with me - I'm her only contact on there.

It's such a wonderful autumn day.

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social

Good Morning! My morning ride quickly turned from "I'm going to drive my usual route" to "Where am I?". A little adventure, just what I needed.

The mist-shrouded morning at Point Reyes National Seashore, hiking with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social, felt not just haunted or ethereal, but otherworldly. The zenith of that sensation came when a huge bull elk appeared out of the landscape as if a ghost from another land entirely.

I gave up on the nordic thing after my colleagues failed to understand why our Terraform backend bucket is called Yggdrasil

You know what can save this day? Cooking a lentil bolognese

Wife falling asleep in my arms is one of the top 10 feelings

Luckily, there's no issue with my account. Turns out I couldn't download the new configuration because the basic authentication they put in front of it doesn't work with Safari, but it does work with Firefox

this paper is bafflingly bad arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Not a fan of waking up at 4AM.

Whenever I can't find my slippers, I look on my wife's side of the bed, because for some strange reason, they always turn up there.