Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2110.01834: Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.

When did Google get so weird?

I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

Nissan’s ​​Third generation ​​e-POWER: Nissan’s various technologies, including electrification, autonomous drive, connected car & service, mobility service, and energy management, are introduced.

Lunar Terminator Paradox

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …

Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

And why you may need to repeat AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' twice. SUMMARY * AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' converts the data type from timestamptz to timestamp (example). * Now you are inadvertently using the timestamp without time zone (aka timestamp) data type, which is markedly discouraged. * There are tons of footguns with timestamp. * For example, the equality of timestamp and timestamptz will always be false. * Adding a month with + INTERVAL '1 months' is timezone-dependent. If your product

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.

Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?

An interactive, illustrated timeline of historic moments in humankind's quest for information. With annotations by Jeremy Norman.

Made by Mechanical Means

How I'm using Claude in fall 2026: Blender, CGI, and music composition, without running code on my computer or opening a single Claude Code thread myself.,How I'm using Claude in fall 2026: Blender, CGI, and music composition, without running code on my computer or opening a single Claude Code thread myself.

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

A lot of progress was made since last year, and I made some of it!

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

Ember-1

Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

Behavioral differences from Claude Opus 5 and the prompting and harness patterns that address them: effort calibration, thinking behavior in API integrations and chat, progress updates, unattended and multiagent tasks, safeguard refusals, frontend design, complex visual inputs, multi-app workflows, and pasted text in user messages.

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

ESP32-S3 A2-Full NAM pedalboard with direct SD-card NAM loading and a Gea-compiled native frontend - dashersw/coyopedal

Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account

So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it...

Deterministic Concurrency [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.