Has anyone built a "weather forecast" for LLM providers? Like "today claude is acting more sycoohantic than usual" and "chatgpt is being unnecessarily 70% more verbose"

claude sonnet feels particularly stupidified today.

As someone who has done a lot of machine learning and wood work.... this is an A+ relatable take.

Damn it - now AI bubble is eating the entire hard drive supply. They truly want us to own nothing, and definitely no compute. www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

I was dealing with an annoying VRAM leak in a custom pytorch kernel, inside some research code I was exploring. Asked claude where the memory leak was, and with a little bit of help it pointed out where they had swapped the indices for a gradient.

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

I feel like i have days when AI coding is really good. Then there are days like today when the models seem completely moronic. And unfortunately, I have no idea if that's a model issue or some opaque throttling for capacity reasons.

chat - are 100 year corporate bonds a good idea? www.barrons.com/news/google-...

Major pizza spike 😬 www.pizzint.watch

I'm calling it - ai. com is the pets. com of our time. "... Pets .com ... a defining cautionary tale of the dot-com bubble. Despite massive branding -including a famous sock puppet mascot and a 2000 Super Bowl ad - the company failed within nine months of its $82.5 million IPO"

After making a big deal out of the roadside drug testing rollout, government, police, and media have all gone strangely quiet. I wonder if it's not going as well as they envisioned? I've become part of the organised resistance to it, which you can check out here: rrc.org.nz

Today's test of Claude Opus 4.6 - Ask it to fix a plugin I use with Jellyfin which broke on the last update. I know nothing about Jellyfin internals or the plugin, and the latest Jellyfin update broke it.

I have been getting chatgpt to predict the 30 day AI bubble pop probability every week or so since Nov 2025.

Good overview of some of the EV options coming into New Zealand www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMsM...

Memory I bought for #$NZ 333 at the beginning of 2025, is now $1662 G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 64GB DDR5 www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MEMG... This future is kinda stupid.

I've been working on this website as a public face to our challenge the road-side saliva testing deployment in New Zealand. Driving impaired is not okay and should face consequences, but the current legislation, and testing regime, is an egregious attack on our Bill of Rights. rrc.org.nz

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

I didn't intend to, but somehow the relentlessness of January 2026 has got me drinking whiskey.

So I'm in the Epstein files 16 times apparently. This is because I worked on OpenCog. Before all the crazy AI funding happening now, it was actually pretty hard to get funding for general AI research. Ben Goertzel at various times sought funding from a lot of rich people, including Epstein.

Last night New Zealand had a pretty spectacular meteorite. Here is one view from Marlborough, facing South. (not mine, from Facebook)

French government funds open source alternative to Zoom amd Teams I will have to try this out! itsfoss.com/news/france-...

Currently working on unpicking a gaussian splatting research project. It is obviously vibe coded, because the comments don't match the code and nothing makes sense. But... it works.

I know people like claude code, but boy is it flaky. I keep getting timeouts, "interrupted by user" when I did nothing, having to decide what model to use (or setting up subagents to do this for me). And just generally spending time babysitting it.

Decided it was time to try out claude code. So I went with something easy... "Here's a new research paper by DeepMind with cutting edge results, go ahead an implement it from scratch" (paraphrased).

Silver is starting to feel like it wants to challenge crypto for its intraday volatility 😅

Humanity already has enough wealth for the majority of us to live a post scarcity life. But, for some reason I don't comprehend, we decided we'd prefer to have billionaires.

[I am reposting as I have fixed an error in processing the csv file (in turning dates in Jan and Oct from text to date where Excel truncated year.month x.10 to x.1) Visualisation of how much bread the minimum wage can afford to buy, which is well below 2016 when National were last in government.

One week back at work after a ~5 month hiatus to work on shed and art. This is both easier and harder than I thought. Having an income stream again is nice though.

Meanwhile New Zealand is letting USA install new FBI bases on our soil because our current government has no self-respect.

The Titanic sunk specifically because they tried to steer out of the way of the iceberg. If they didn't attempt to steer it, it wouldn't have sunk.

Some fool drive a truck carrying a digger through our road's power lines. I take this as a sign from the universe that my decision to get a solar and battery backup quote next week is the correct one.

I appreciate people summarising the nonsense from the stupidest man on the planet. I personally am unable to watch more 10 seconds of the blathering before my brain wants to self-lobotomize itself.

I'm worried that, in the event of EU/US conflict and escalation, the technology landscape is so interconnected that major outages are inevitable. US cloud providers are integrated deeply into many systems.

Returned to work after a few months hiatus to find we were the gaussian splat provider for this music video - cool to see code you've worked for on used for new visual creations! youtu.be/g1-46Nu3HxQ?...

What are the best global news sources that you can subscribe to that don't simp for Trump and will happily call a deranged lunatic a deranged lunatic. I realise this rules out most US media organisations.

atproto seems cool, but i still yearn for p2p encrypted and private socials. the tech ad and surveillance system wants your data to be public. most humans do not want their social interactions on-record forever.

To really make use of agents, I feel like you need a way to coordinate them clobbering each other's work. Something like a temporary lock on files, or a way to flag "i'm working with this currently".

Ok - now I think I'd just like to get the opportunity to work on this or somewhere adjacent. Anyone have leads for agent-based startups that would hire remote talent in New Zealand? 20+ years ML/AI experience. Lots of research, infra, data engineering and shipping production applications.

I now know enough about agents and agent frameworks to be annoyed that no one is doing it correctly. But I also don't need another project.

My light art installation "Pyramid4040" at Ignition 2026.

My light art installation "Pyramid4040" at Ignition 2026.

We are the world's bad guys. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...

We (Random Farm) have 4 sheep in this year's Black and Coloured Sheep Sale This is W's professional hobby, but her sheep have been winning awards for several years now!

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

I really want a semantic timeline filter for social media. I don't mind occasionally keeping up with USA nonsense, but sometimes I really just want to turn it off. Sometimes I just want to see cool stuff people made. Etc.

When someone decides their personal account is just going to be their bot posting account, then that's an unfollow. I will follow bots, I will follow people. I will not follow people that morph into bots spamming bot nonsense.

It's alive!

Has anyone trained coding LLMs on ASTs (Abstract syntax trees) and doing some unification/translation between language trees?

I don't understand why some AI people are falling over themselves to defend the act of spamming people. This complete amorality is more infuriating than a single spam email.

What is this website facade of a "release". Just release a torrent already.