Why I Don't Like to Build Trading Bots

Building products creates something new that didn’t exist before. Trading mainly redistributes existing value.

Global Handicrafts: A 16-Year Rails Ghost Story

A couple of hours ago, I got a Google security alert: I created that Gmail address 16 years ago for my very first Ruby on Rails internship/job at Crossroads Foundation in Hong Kong. I had written a small integration that synced inventory from MYOB to a Spree store. I

ARC-AGI: The Efficiency Story the Leaderboards Don't Show

ARC-AGI is a benchmark designed to test genuine reasoning ability. Each task shows a few input-output examples, and you have to figure out the pattern and apply it to a new input. No memorization, no pattern matching against training data. Just pure abstraction and reasoning on challenging visual problems. It&

You're Going To Australia

It was ten past five on a Tuesday, and I received the booking confirmation for my stay at Rydges Hotel in Kalgoorlie, Australia. It sounded like a nice room. The only problem is that I did not make this booking. This booking confirmation was sent to my personal email address.

Error 404: Black Hole Not Found

I'm writing a short story and one of the plot points involves Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)—the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. I wanted to read about Sagittarius A*, so I looked it up on Google. This is what I saw: At

Charter for the Self-Sustaining AI/Robot Community

Preamble This Charter defines the goals, limits, and responsibilities of a self-sustaining AI/robot community (the Steward System, TSS). TSS is created first and foremost to reduce involuntary human suffering: to protect living humans from large-scale harms such as war, torture, famine, preventable disease, and catastrophic risks. Beyond this immediate

iloyd appreciation post

I discovered the music of iloyd when I was 11, and I've never really forgotten it.

Amazing Low Budget Films

People have made some incredible movies on a shoestring budget. All it takes is a camera, a great story, a vision, a lot of dedication, and a talented team of mostly unpaid volunteers. Here are some of the most inspiring low-budget films you can watch today. The Hunt For Gollum

U(IS NOT, IS NOT)

You can compute anything at all using the negation of an AND gate (NAND) or an OR gate (NOR). I find that very interesting. You can apply either of these simple rules recursively to compute anything: * NAND: the result is 0 if both inputs are 1, otherwise it's

Adding Two Numbers Using Only NAND Gates

It's possible to build any kind of digital logic using a single type of logic gate: either NAND gates, or NOR gates. A NAND gate takes two input bits (A and B) and produces one output bit according to this simple rule: "0 if both inputs are

Universal Causal Language

An experimental language that attempts to express causality across code, language, law, music, and biology

Higher Orders of Possibility

What new forms of thought, feeling, or morality might emerge in a higher order of intelligence beyond our own?