What Happens in the Chain of Thought
Why Frontier AI Models Keep Secrets
ByteByteGo published an interesting article on the commercial and safety risks of exposed AI reasoning traces. It's academic in nature (so consume it with a grain of salt) but ut still has some interesting info. Check out the full article here.
My takeaways:
- When AI models answer hard questions, they generate a . . .
Introducing getstat.dev
They say necessity is the mother of invention, right? :-)
About a week ago, I published a simple little page called https://getstat.dev. It's live now.
It's nothing fancy; just an easy client-centric way to verify connectivity to the public internet without the excessive bloat of visiting an actual web site. I . . .
Music for focus - Flow Tunes
Introducing Hack FAQs
After some initial delay, I've (finally?) launched a technical journal site/newsletter: Hack FAQs. It's a consolidation of a few interests and hobbies I've had over the years and my hope is that it'll be in a form that's easy to author/maintain.
What is it, exactly? Think of it like a collection of brief . . .
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
I know this exists in exactly one billion places on the Internet, but figured another blog post wouldn't hurt. Digging this:
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is . . .
Original game developer notes for Deus Ex
Whoa. This is awesome.
I was feeling a bit nostalgic this weekend and re-watched Warren Spector's awesome GDC 17 presentation describing the development of Deus Ex. If you haven't seen it and have some spare time, check it out here. It has a truly fascinating lifecycle.
During the presentation, Warren alluded to a lot of pre-game development and . . .