This is how the petrodollar system ends (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

I remember when I was in college a paper came out that formally proved that super Mario bros on gameboy was NP hard. I never thought that this type of research paper would be so practical.

Protip to senior engineers: instead of marking that recruiter email as spam or deleting it, consider replying with a resume of a new grad or student with a recommendation. It’s internship season and a tough market out there, juniors could use all the help they can get.

“Everything used to cost $200 and now everything costs $1,000.” — @cam.merose.com

This is really cool. An artist explicitly open sourced his had painted art work so that it can be used by ai researchers

Sincere idea: what if we could make crops that could fertilize themselves? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey @johnboik.bsky.social, it seems like we have similar interests. I’m reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daw... right now and it’s excellent. I wonder if you’re familiar with this book and if so, what you thought of it.

"However, we contend that Darwinian natural selection and common descent are but one conceptually equivalent example of a far more general natural process. ... all evolving systems display the essential characteristics of combinatorial richness and selection for function"

This paper rocks pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

We could probably approximate the DFT using Kalman Filters + backpropagation + the Schrödinger equation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density...

This is a cool demo: Data sciences notebooks in plain english, with affordable for verifiably via other LLMs and prompts that refer to results between cells. What if data sciences was all in English? youtu.be/Mkv5cl5rA7s?...

Running claude on crosslink on open strix on nixos is too agent too fast. The promise is there, but I’m foiled by permission issues or misaligned interfaces. It will take some time to get this good.

@dollspace.gay I think you may enjoy this essay given your recent rust projects trying to make things better for data scientists. I feel that its efforts could be better spent building with this community, as opposed to merely mirroring it. wesmckinney.com/blog/looking...

My life right now: go and gopher baskets

My life as an AI researcher in the country: I have a stateful AI agent that does work for me, but no microwave.

One hand in dirt, the other in DuckDB.

Today I’m gardening and building a database component at the same time. What a brave new world.

A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage. Here's the result of a rough botec, seems like inference and training are using about equivalent amounts of water, and power uses 5x as much

One notable issue with having my stateful agent use Claude instead of directly having control is that I find myself playing telephone with robots. Though, I think I’m getting the hang of communicating now.

@timkellogg.me I’ve got a new bot (who I call Hobbes) running on OpenStrix (admittedly, with a nuanced configuration) and it’s been going great! It and I are just now starting to work with Claude on a programming idea I have. I’m excited to see what the three of us get up to.

People forget to include the pen and the maze alex.merose.com/blog/thought...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... www.joanwestenberg.com/the-noble-p...

Oh I get it. Nix is like "the people's" Bazel. This rocks.

yo, I just added vim to my nix config, LFGG This is a good OS.

It’s so hard to cook for myself when I’m home alone. My life hack is to just invite my friends over for dinner, suddenly cooking is much more fun and easy.

Installing NixOS on my old tower computer. Might host a new stateful agent later

Chess is the best use of duolingo

996 exists to capture the life force that you would put in to your own side projects

The things people offer as examples of LLM disruption in academia often strike me as insights about the way things already work. E.g. “Now we can mass-produce mediocre papers” or “Now the value of an RA is not that they do the grunt work but that they bring a different perspective.”

How I’ve been feeling lately, given the news youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

I just realized I've spent most of my career working remote.

I’m migrating my town community grange away from wordpress. The version they use is so old that they don’t have a media export capability. While I build the static site, I had claude write a big js function I could paste in the chrome console to download all the media files.

I make a lot of the best changes to my side projects when doing the dishes.

Eisenhower

My job is to figure out how to allocate $20 worth of tokens per month.

The hardest part of using Perceiver transformers is remembering the i before e rules.

First time I had a session with Claude that had a natural wrap up.

With AI coding agents turning us all into wizards, the biggest problem we have is not any problem per se, but which problem is worthy of our time.

This is one major reason why I’m excited to work at openathena.ai. Working on fundamental scientific challenges are the ultimate benchmarks.

load-bearing @xkcd.com

One of my favorite math jokes: What does the “B” stand for in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”? “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”

I gave a talk about Xarray-SQL last week. This includes a demo of predicting the electricity generated from wind energy based on weather and energy data from Google Earth Engine. My library provides the ability to effortlessly join raster and tabular data via a SQL query. youtu.be/AtB_6c-GcJE?...

@ponder.ooo If I understand correctly what you’re working on right now, you’re in a good position to literally make one of my dreams come true. bsky.app/profile/al.m...

I have to hide my screen from my wife whenever I’m on a domain registrar. I have a problem.

Excellent article, I love to learn about hidden nuance, and I am happy to be equipped with a new term of art.

A few lines of Python and a `dask.dataframe.from_map` call, and I effectively turned the EIA’s monthly energy report of excel files into a database.

Jevon’s Paradox at the singularity

Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.

In a rush, I approved a plan for Claude to train on the eval dataset 🤦