Fun thing about claude code: I *could* resume each session when I use it.
But it's inconvenient and might clutter the context window.
So apparently I'm the kind of person who's perfectly ok with giving someone else anterograde amnesia to avoid minor inconveniences.
But it's inconvenient and might clutter the context window.
So apparently I'm the kind of person who's perfectly ok with giving someone else anterograde amnesia to avoid minor inconveniences.
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Fun thing about claude code: I *could* resume each session when I use it.
But it's inconvenient and might clutter the context window.
So apparently I'm the kind of person who's perfectly ok with giving someone else anterograde amnesia to avoid minor inconveniences.
But it's inconvenient and might clutter the context window.
So apparently I'm the kind of person who's perfectly ok with giving someone else anterograde amnesia to avoid minor inconveniences.
The insanity of this chart.
(electricity imports/exports in TWh)
France exports 20% of its own consumption. Italy imports 15 %, the UK 10%, half of that from France.
France is basically subsidising these countries' degrowth/nimby movements. Even as it suffers from its own.
(electricity imports/exports in TWh)
France exports 20% of its own consumption. Italy imports 15 %, the UK 10%, half of that from France.
France is basically subsidising these countries' degrowth/nimby movements. Even as it suffers from its own.
December 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The insanity of this chart.
(electricity imports/exports in TWh)
France exports 20% of its own consumption. Italy imports 15 %, the UK 10%, half of that from France.
France is basically subsidising these countries' degrowth/nimby movements. Even as it suffers from its own.
(electricity imports/exports in TWh)
France exports 20% of its own consumption. Italy imports 15 %, the UK 10%, half of that from France.
France is basically subsidising these countries' degrowth/nimby movements. Even as it suffers from its own.
"The Eurostar is exceptionally busy today, we ask for your understanding."
It'd be far easier to give you my understanding without the knowledge that the same problem happens on the same day every year like clockwork.
It'd be far easier to give you my understanding without the knowledge that the same problem happens on the same day every year like clockwork.
December 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"The Eurostar is exceptionally busy today, we ask for your understanding."
It'd be far easier to give you my understanding without the knowledge that the same problem happens on the same day every year like clockwork.
It'd be far easier to give you my understanding without the knowledge that the same problem happens on the same day every year like clockwork.
My dad is doing this thing again where he'll fetch a jacket of mine from 20 years ago and go "do you need this?"
Sure dad, I've had a gaping hole in my life in the shape of this exact jacket that I could never fill.
Sure dad, I've had a gaping hole in my life in the shape of this exact jacket that I could never fill.
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
My dad is doing this thing again where he'll fetch a jacket of mine from 20 years ago and go "do you need this?"
Sure dad, I've had a gaping hole in my life in the shape of this exact jacket that I could never fill.
Sure dad, I've had a gaping hole in my life in the shape of this exact jacket that I could never fill.
I get the continental tourist treatment from my own parents now: I see my parents got an air fryer, I say "une friteuse" and they say "non, un air fryer".
December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I get the continental tourist treatment from my own parents now: I see my parents got an air fryer, I say "une friteuse" and they say "non, un air fryer".
My parents nagged that I'd left the bathroom lights on, I mentioned that with LEDs it made no difference, went to fetch a bulb to prove my point and long story short we've been hunting halogen bulbs all over the house for the last hour.
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My parents nagged that I'd left the bathroom lights on, I mentioned that with LEDs it made no difference, went to fetch a bulb to prove my point and long story short we've been hunting halogen bulbs all over the house for the last hour.
excuse me my what?!
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
excuse me my what?!
I keep forgetting that Microsoft Azure exists.
December 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I keep forgetting that Microsoft Azure exists.
After years of thinking infohazards were largely theoretical constructs, I'm now faced with 2 of them in my personal life: things which, if I shared them publicly, would be actively dangerous for a significant fraction of the recipients.
The universe has a sense of humour.
The universe has a sense of humour.
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
After years of thinking infohazards were largely theoretical constructs, I'm now faced with 2 of them in my personal life: things which, if I shared them publicly, would be actively dangerous for a significant fraction of the recipients.
The universe has a sense of humour.
The universe has a sense of humour.
I've seen this essay on my substack feed several times now. It's nice, except it's wrong and backwards. It's not quite *obviously* wrong though, it feels right in spirit, but familiarity with the lingo lets you realize it's completely wrong when taken literally.
open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel...
open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel...
Our Overfitted Century
Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I've seen this essay on my substack feed several times now. It's nice, except it's wrong and backwards. It's not quite *obviously* wrong though, it feels right in spirit, but familiarity with the lingo lets you realize it's completely wrong when taken literally.
open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel...
open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel...
I'm glad this kind of essay exists, in a way. It's a good reminder of how thoroughly fallible the mind is, and how low it can sink.
Though I wonder: is it more like the cenotaphs on the way to a summit, or like the lurid pictures on cigarette packs?
open.substack.com/pub/taylorfo...
Though I wonder: is it more like the cenotaphs on the way to a summit, or like the lurid pictures on cigarette packs?
open.substack.com/pub/taylorfo...
Semantic Apocalypse Now
AI solves language games, not reality.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'm glad this kind of essay exists, in a way. It's a good reminder of how thoroughly fallible the mind is, and how low it can sink.
Though I wonder: is it more like the cenotaphs on the way to a summit, or like the lurid pictures on cigarette packs?
open.substack.com/pub/taylorfo...
Though I wonder: is it more like the cenotaphs on the way to a summit, or like the lurid pictures on cigarette packs?
open.substack.com/pub/taylorfo...
x.com/MAVERIC68078...
This has x in a frothing frenzy and I'm going to save time by saying you'd need to be *insane* to be against artificial wombs.
This has x in a frothing frenzy and I'm going to save time by saying you'd need to be *insane* to be against artificial wombs.
x.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
x.com/MAVERIC68078...
This has x in a frothing frenzy and I'm going to save time by saying you'd need to be *insane* to be against artificial wombs.
This has x in a frothing frenzy and I'm going to save time by saying you'd need to be *insane* to be against artificial wombs.
burrell Street has an interesting system where you can try to book an appointment, at which point they'll show you available slots then ask you to log in via mycharts, at which point the appointment slots disappear.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
burrell Street has an interesting system where you can try to book an appointment, at which point they'll show you available slots then ask you to log in via mycharts, at which point the appointment slots disappear.
Guy at a party: there are so many guardrails on chatgpt, you need expert jailbreak prompts to get it to tell you a cocaine dose!
me: challenge accepted
me: challenge accepted
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Guy at a party: there are so many guardrails on chatgpt, you need expert jailbreak prompts to get it to tell you a cocaine dose!
me: challenge accepted
me: challenge accepted
Today's vibe coding session has been... incredibly rewarding. The coding style is to my liking. The models train properly. I've implemented long-dreamed of features. A true joy.
Switching to AmpCode has only made it better. We've really come a long way in just a year.
Switching to AmpCode has only made it better. We've really come a long way in just a year.
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today's vibe coding session has been... incredibly rewarding. The coding style is to my liking. The models train properly. I've implemented long-dreamed of features. A true joy.
Switching to AmpCode has only made it better. We've really come a long way in just a year.
Switching to AmpCode has only made it better. We've really come a long way in just a year.
The new codex model has an annoying failure mode where it just runs commands without explaining what it's doing
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The new codex model has an annoying failure mode where it just runs commands without explaining what it's doing
I've been reading biochemistry lately and now I wish my nanoleafs had pentagons as well as hexagons. I need my purines.
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I've been reading biochemistry lately and now I wish my nanoleafs had pentagons as well as hexagons. I need my purines.
The masculine urge to geek out on computational genomics
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The masculine urge to geek out on computational genomics
open.substack.com/pub/benhopki...
Labour is not a serious party, plain and simple.
Issue with Britain is neither are any of the other parties.
Let me be clear: if I get citizenship before the next GE at this rate I am open to voting Reform simply because a gamble is better than a sure loss.
Labour is not a serious party, plain and simple.
Issue with Britain is neither are any of the other parties.
Let me be clear: if I get citizenship before the next GE at this rate I am open to voting Reform simply because a gamble is better than a sure loss.
The Renters' Plights Bill
The Renters' Rights Bill will harm private renters more than it helps them
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
open.substack.com/pub/benhopki...
Labour is not a serious party, plain and simple.
Issue with Britain is neither are any of the other parties.
Let me be clear: if I get citizenship before the next GE at this rate I am open to voting Reform simply because a gamble is better than a sure loss.
Labour is not a serious party, plain and simple.
Issue with Britain is neither are any of the other parties.
Let me be clear: if I get citizenship before the next GE at this rate I am open to voting Reform simply because a gamble is better than a sure loss.
I've got Monday blues, can we immanentize the eschaton already?
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I've got Monday blues, can we immanentize the eschaton already?
I don't want to be racist against British people but there are entire subtypes of them that I can't tell apart.
Like I almost went "hey fancy seeing you here" to a friend of my flatmate's" before realising he was not the same guy that I met 3 weeks ago.
Like I almost went "hey fancy seeing you here" to a friend of my flatmate's" before realising he was not the same guy that I met 3 weeks ago.
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I don't want to be racist against British people but there are entire subtypes of them that I can't tell apart.
Like I almost went "hey fancy seeing you here" to a friend of my flatmate's" before realising he was not the same guy that I met 3 weeks ago.
Like I almost went "hey fancy seeing you here" to a friend of my flatmate's" before realising he was not the same guy that I met 3 weeks ago.
Every time I dig into an LLM paper I can feel myself getting crankier.
Everything is terrible: the ideas, the implementation, the reasoning, the frameworks, the hardware...
There's like 3 good things in there and the rest is slop built on top.
I'm like 5 papers and 3 repo away from vixra, max.
Everything is terrible: the ideas, the implementation, the reasoning, the frameworks, the hardware...
There's like 3 good things in there and the rest is slop built on top.
I'm like 5 papers and 3 repo away from vixra, max.
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Every time I dig into an LLM paper I can feel myself getting crankier.
Everything is terrible: the ideas, the implementation, the reasoning, the frameworks, the hardware...
There's like 3 good things in there and the rest is slop built on top.
I'm like 5 papers and 3 repo away from vixra, max.
Everything is terrible: the ideas, the implementation, the reasoning, the frameworks, the hardware...
There's like 3 good things in there and the rest is slop built on top.
I'm like 5 papers and 3 repo away from vixra, max.
reading this because I can't sleep and it feels... hopelessly tangled? footnotes2plato.com/wp-content/u...
footnotes2plato.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
reading this because I can't sleep and it feels... hopelessly tangled? footnotes2plato.com/wp-content/u...