Trying our new R/C flail mower on our hillside. Ran it for about 2 hours on half a tank of gas and cleared a LOT of brush from a hillside with a few too many steep ruts to be comfortable with brushhogging it. These are ruts left from our geothermal installation several years ago…
Watch on YouTube →So I am setting up a local intranet for my extended family to use (file sharing, media server, etc) and I figured I'd set them all up with a free locally-hosted AI chat model for them to use as well. I'm a big fan of open-source local AI, and I like promoting it for others when…
"I hear, and I forget I see, and I remember I do, and I understand." I was recently asked how to get started contributing to open source. The following is my step-by-step recommendation: Pick an open-source project that you enjoy using Learn how to build it + run it from from…
This is my entry to the OpenAI WebMCP Challenge. VibeFarmer is a whimsical exploration into what working alongside AI agents might look like in our day-to-day life. It also is meant to provide visibility into the WebMCP protocol and see how tool calls are exposed to agents and…
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in which Clint does his best to give a lesson in machine learning around the dinner table. Covers numeric representation, network layers, labeled data, training vs testing data sets, loss functions, backpropagation, overfitting, and convergence (amongst other sundry topics).…
Watch on YouTube →This is a fascinating conversation to read -- this is Terence Tao's conversation with ChatGPT about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample. https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56 It's really cool to read the transcript of someone who is an expert in their…
I'm putting together a small "Introduction to AI" presentation that I'm giving on Wednesday morning. The target audience is roughly a 50/50 mix of engineers and non-engineers, so I'm trying to not make too many assumptions about my listener's technical depth. I've only got 15…
I spent parts of two days making a very small local co-op arcade game called Vineguard. It started as an entry for the CGDC Speedgame Classic 2026, which gave the project a helpful frame: make something small, finishable, and playful without letting it turn into a giant engine…
I was impressed by the visualizations in this article: Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search I'm a big fan of semantic embeddings models -- I've used them extensively on various projects for everything from hardware issue diagnosis (asymmetric embeddings-model for…
By Max Leiter, from the original on his blog. Jun 3, 2026 They're Made Out of Weights with apologies to Terry Bisson After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat". "They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through.…
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