Tab dump

Inspired by Kottke’s recent Emptying the Tabs, here’s my own dump from my own digital hoarding:

Understanding the Apple ][. Because, y’know… I might need to reference this later.

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes”:

You cannot make jokes about failure in the States. It’s like cancer, it just isn’t funny at any level. In England, though, for some reason it’s the thing we love most. So Arthur may not seem like much of a hero to Americans – he doesn’t have any stock options, he doesn’t have anything to exchange high fives about round the water-cooler. But to the English, he is a hero. Terrible things happen to him, he complains about it a bit quite articulately, so we can really feel it along with him - then calms down and has a cup of tea. My kind of guy!

Ah, good ol’ Arthur Dent. He was my kind of hero when I was growing up. Also, I’d love to give Blackbooks a good re-watch sometime.

Japan’s Dodo Land. A place to be annoyed, for those of us who love to be annoyed.

How Money Works. It leaves your wallet? What else do you need to know?

Inner Drumming. I’ve yet to have a chance to learn drumming, but this sounds like my kind of learning.

Why the open social web matters now. I mean, the Internet seems to be in decay, so maybe this posting on my blog is all for naught?

Adaptive Mixtures of Local Experts. Some light reading for when you want to dive in to how a Mixture of Experts (MoE) LLM model works, straight from the source. Been wrapping my head around MoE’s vs dense models.

Why did AMD just buy this REALLY WEIRD chip company? YouTube video discussing the acquisition of Taalas by AMD. Smells like positioning for local AI, and has hints of what folks were doing for making ASICs for crypto mining.

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is.

Remote for OpenCode. Looks promising, and fancy way to handshake via iCloud, but doesn’t seem like it works yet outside of the local network. Maybe Tailscale is the right way forward?

Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds. Our context is just filled up, alright. Need to compact.

There’s more than this, but that’s it for now. I can least feel like I can close these tabs and come back to this list if I need to come back to them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.