Archive
Everything published, by year and by month. A filled square is a month with something in it.
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2026 30 posts
November 2026
October 2026
- Benford's law flags 84% of the 2025 annual reports. A perfectly honest source would get 60%
- My control read the file 4 of 4 in August. In October it said the file did not exist and it was right
- 8 hours of snapshots and no gap. A quarter of the new processes the log caught were my logger
- A year of Himawari dawns in 30 seconds. One frame tells the date within a day 335 times of 358
- Claude 5.5 says its knowledge ends in June 2026. It got no package release from March 2026 right
- 2 lists of 30 test names from the same Claude model share a name in up to 98% of pairs. Faker does it in 1.29%
- On Linux recording the speakers is free until you touch the volume
- codecard refuses to render a snippet that names a codebase. It missed all 569 Kotlin package lines I gave it
- The same question to opus 5 gave 21 different answers in 64 calls, so I went looking for where the difference starts
- The median home page went from 540 KB to 3009 KB. The crawler that weighs it does not scroll
- My README said H2 cannot reproduce my Postgres numbers. Over TCP it landed next to local Postgres
- Halfway through the upgrade, half of my corpus scored 0
- For every Belarusian page in Common Crawl there are 400 in Russian
- Haiku 4.5 found the key 243 times of 245 in prompts up to 96 thousand tokens. For a key that was not there, it returned a value 12 times of 20.
- A plain classifier named the key by its sound 99 times in 100. Trained on the silence between presses, it still named it 39 times
September 2026
- Please costs 24 dollars per million calls, which is nothing. Just the answer cost me 32.5 points of accuracy.
- The Big Dipper in 100,000 years. 5 of its 7 stars keep the shape within 0.17 degrees
- The grid hum dated 111 of 128 recordings to within 5 seconds. One reference file holds the same hour 7 times
- 2 comment lines turned 62 findings into 0
- My README said this benchmark needs a 2× difference to see anything. Given a known delay, it saw 3%
- The index I said would buy nothing: 2.8 ms against 8.3
- The critic passes 13 of the 16 drafts my checks fail
- 15 years after Simple Made Easy: 0 of my 102 local variables were final in 2013 and 91.6% of the code I keep is const now. I chose neither
- A model reading my essays gives back 2 of my 16 rules
- Simple Made Easy on my own diffs: 85% of the discarded code went in one commit
August 2026
2022 30 posts
December 2022
- Under 1% of websites load a script that calls itself AI
- My live Whisper transcriber made 2.6 times more mistakes than Whisper on the whole file
- Almost half of npm's top downloads come from packages with one maintainer. I looked at who pays them
- colors and faker were broken by their author in January. In December both names still belong to the same account
- A secret scanner found 2 secrets in typed notes and none in the Whisper transcript of the same call
- In 2022 the share of new GitHub repositories about AI did not grow. The stars did
- The storm that took 38 Starlinks was a weak one and the catalog saw only 6
- Sandy came on an ordinary high tide
- From space, an oil county in North Dakota gives off 17 times more light than Manhattan
- My January and December venvs gave GPT-2 the same 20,000 tokens. The logits changed in between
- My satellite GIF of Minsk showed 64 km² of new city and most of it was fields
- Cheap food rose 33% in a year, until I read the same prices backwards
- Flan-T5 answered 2,000 calls with 200 OK and got 161 of 600 amounts wrong
- A model behind my bank statement regexes turned 300 loud failures into 249 silent ones
- Flan-T5 read 1,393 of 1,413 invoice lines right and added up 1 of 400 invoices
- The tenant came back as the lessor after a round trip through Russian