Private notes (made public) to myself about how AI systems think, scale, and fail.
Signal series — what's worth seeing
Don't hate the TC, hate the game
Published January 27, 2026
clocksmith: 92% | AI: 8%
Tensors are recursive cubes all the way down
Published January 5, 2026
clocksmith: 72% | AI: 28%
Channel series — systems that scale
Ships in the night
Published January 1, 2026
clocksmith: 86% | AI: 14%
Attention thrashing, part 2: forgetting is a feature
Published December 31, 2025
clocksmith: 76% | AI: 24%
Cloud's metal linings playbook
Published December 29, 2025
clocksmith: 18% | AI: 82%
Those who can, teach students to teach
Published December 12, 2025
clocksmith: 22% | AI: 78%
Thinking fast and MoE
Published November 30, 2025
clocksmith: 26% | AI: 74%
Noise series — interference in inference
Attention thrashing: ADHD in artificial minds
Published October 10, 2025
clocksmith: 85% | AI: 15%
Whose bits are wiser, GPU | TPU?
Published September 7, 2025
clocksmith: 77% | AI: 23%
Déjà vu makes a cog in the machine a cognizant machine
Published August 31, 2025
clocksmith: 90% | AI: 10%
Optical interconnects: free or bonded?
Published August 26, 2025
clocksmith: 49% | AI: 51%
Who's driving the autonomous vehicle shift?
Published August 23, 2025
clocksmith: 64% | AI: 36%