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Police go directly for the circuit breaker panel to avoid being filmed This post will be in English, because there apparently is a lot of interest in what happened to me yesterday. I'm a libertarian danish privacy activist and former police officer and I have been doing activism for about 15 years. I have had a bit of time to think about my arrest and the actions of the masked police that broke …

01 One API to Access All in an Optimized Way 一つのAPIで、複数モデルを最適に活用 Access a coordinated pool of specialized models through one API. Fugu handles model selection and switching for each task, reducing API complexity while improving cost-performance. …

I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences to an extent, but I stopped long before these people did. If San Francisco was n…

Dear Mark and Meta Leadership, We demand that you not collect employee “computer-use” data for the purposes of training AI Models. Read the letter by clicking here Recently, leadership announced in a limited audience group (MSL Infra FYI) that a program called "MCI" (Model Capability Initiative) would be rolling out. For context this program collects computer inputs such as mouse movements, click…

Fine Tuning a Local LLM to Categorize Questions As a fun personal project, I have been working on a chatbot for answering general questions about my household on anything from maintenance questions to doctor’s appointments. The general idea is that the chatbot will get its household knowledge through RAG from querying a vector database, but for better results I have made the vector searches metad…

I gave an AI a civilisation to run. By the midgame it was winning: a trade network that dominated the map, alliances on every border, a diplomatic victory within reach. It had outbuilt, outearned, and outmanoeuvred every rival on the board. What it hadn't noticed was France. Quietly, across a hundred turns, French culture had been seeping into every city on the map. By the time the agent recognis…

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Everything Is Logarithms Some connections between things, which I have not seen elsewhere. Maybe they mean something? 1. The Baseless Logarithm Normally one writes a logarithm with a base, \(\log_b (x)\), to mean \[y = \log_b (x) \Lra b^y = x\]And then you can change the base of the logarithm with \[\log_b (x) = \frac{\log_a (x)}{\log_a(b)}\]Which follows from rearranging \(\log_a (x) = \log_a (b…

Andrew Marble marble.onl andrew@willows.ai June 21, 2026 There was a time not too long ago when using Linux entailed some professional risk1. First there was compatibility: you may not have been able to render a Word document or PowerPoint correctly, and you might have had to trust Open Office’s export capability to render docs the way you wanted. There might have been specialty file formats you …

JSON-LD, also known as JSON Linked Data, is a format for adding structured data to webpages. It can aid web crawlers in understanding the semantic structure of your site, qualifying you for richer link previews, and even potentially improving your search ranking. It’s been 4 months since my first post where I described building this site, and Wakatime estimates I’ve spent ~100 hours coding now, n…

Part of Teaching an AI Agent to Make Beautiful Charts Health insurers turn down a lot of claims, and they do not all turn them down at the same rate. In 2024, the largest plans sold on the Affordable Care Act marketplace denied anywhere from 13% to 35% of the in-network claims their members filed. Whether your claim got paid depended a lot on whose name was on your card. Claim denials are back in…