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Notes to myself about how AI systems think, scale, and fail. You are welcome to browse.

Signal series what's worth seeing

Tensors are recursive cubes all the way down

Originally conceived January 5, 2026

clocksmith: 72% | AI: 28%

Ships in the night

Originally conceived January 1, 2026

clocksmith: 86% | AI: 14%
Attention thrashing, part 2: Forgetting is a feature

Originally conceived December 31, 2025

clocksmith: 76% | AI: 24%
Cloud's metal linings playbook

Originally conceived December 29, 2025

clocksmith: 18% | AI: 82%
Those who can, teach students to teach

Originally conceived December 12, 2025

clocksmith: 22% | AI: 78%
Thinking fast and MoE

Originally conceived November 30, 2025

clocksmith: 26% | AI: 74%

Attention thrashing: ADHD in artificial minds

Updated October 10, 2025

clocksmith: 85% | AI: 15%
Whose bits are wiser, GPU | TPU?

Updated September 7, 2025

clocksmith: 77% | AI: 23%
Déjà vu makes a cog in the machine a cognizant machine

Updated August 31, 2025

clocksmith: 90% | AI: 10%
Optical interconnects: Free or bonded?

Updated August 26, 2025

clocksmith: 49% | AI: 51%
Who's driving the autonomous vehicle shift?

Updated August 23, 2025

clocksmith: 64% | AI: 36%