Even Top AI Hallucinates Hardware Details, Lacks Self-Awareness
Vibecoding hallucinations with a very confused anthropic/claude/opus trying to describe what is going on on my MacStudio. Inside an AI that can write code, misread top, and hallucinate about your hardware all at once. State‑of‑the‑Art, but zero self‑awareness: if this be... 1/
MAMLMs Expose Current Limits of GPT-Style Models
MAMLMs—Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models—applied to my “SubTuringBradBot” project. Hitherto it has mostly been failure modes of various kinds, and while the failure modes have been very interesting, as to the current limitations of GPTLLM MAMLMs software technology... 1/
On‑device AI Training Slashes Cloud Costs Dramatically
Building a catechism out of 500MB of text, one GPU‑hour and hallucination at a time, as a month‑long on-device build_qa.py run to cut what would otherwise have been a $3,000 cloud bill by a factor of 1000 has to teach...
AI Arms Race: Trillions Burned or Future Shaped
The current $1.5T AI arms race: are hyperscalers building utopia, building dystopia, building digital god, or simply lighting trillions of dollars on fire in a dollar auction? When “free cash flow” meets a once‑in‑a‑lifetime tech shock, balance sheets stop looking...
Exploring the Hidden “Creativity” Dial of LLMs
Turn it up for what?! Prettying the plumage on your stochastic parrot via the “secret” work of the LLM “creativity” dial. Behind the paywall because I am not at all sure that this is right. But I do find it...
From ENIAC to Nvidia: Powering the Idle Transistor Era
A world full of dark compute as the journey from ENIAC to Nvidia built a world of idle transistors; or, your MacStudio vs. the planet’s datacenters: a thought experiment in silicon and power: **Well, I Can Hammer the CPUs & the...
When $160M Incomes Become Normal, Civilizations Vanish
How long do civilizations last? The Drake Equation, Bel‑Air mansions for everyone, & the Great Filter; or, where is everybody when $160 million a year incomes are normal? (Behind the paywall, at least initially, because I am not yet happy...
SubTuringBradBot Launches, Replacing FAQs with Interactive AI
The dining-room-corner linear algebra experiment, or, why I am trying to build a BradBot instead of a FAQ list—SubTuringBradBot, office hours, gasbags, and “hexapodia”: **SubTuringBradBot Is Finally Live—at Least for Now: Monday MAMLMs** 2026-04-20 Mo
LLMs: Brilliant Pantomimes, Yet Unexpected Gaps
Behind the paywall because this is of interest only to those genuinely interested in closely following my MAMLM-interpretation & assessment journey. Current viewpoint: Pantomimes of thought: LLMs working so weirdly well except where they do not, as we traverse the......
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory Leaves US Worse Off Than JCPOA
Ex ante, I would have said that it would be very difficult for the United States to lose a war with Iran. Yet Trump—somehow—seems to have managed. A postwar state of affairs that is vastly worse than Obama’s JCPOA that...
LLMs Expose Hidden Biases of the American Right
Vermouth, covfefe, & ‘vermin’: What LLMs potentially have to teach Us About the American Right’s Id from Scott Bessent’s “Straits of Vermouth” to Trump’s “oranges of the investigation”. Our parapraxes are noisy but telling windows into the system prompts running...
Smart Shutoff Device Detects Leaks and Acts Instantly
A bulletin from the front: Brad vs. the Moen Flo Shutoff game-changing smart water device that monitors for leaks and immediately takes action to help prevent them. Yes, we are now in that Brave New World where “AI” doesn’t understand...
Apple’s Mac Mini Farm Beats Cloud AI Efficiency
Marco Arment's Setup as the Canary in the Coal Mine—or, Rather, as the 50 Mac Mini Server Farm Vastly More Efficient than the NVIDIA-Powered Cloud-Bound Hyperscalers. Or, why John Giannandrea’s stewardship of Apple’s AI strategy may have meant that Apple...
NYT's Odd Cultural Coverage Targets Lord & Miller Films
**Yes, the "New York Times" Has Really Weird Cultural Coverage. Why Do You Ask?** As an institution, it seems that it really does not like that my cousin Phil Lord and his partner Chris Miller keep making movies that push back...
Funding the AI Data Centers Behind Massive MAMLMs
Monday MAMLMs: Where Will the Money to Pay for All the “AI” DataCenters Come From? Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models (MAMLMs) will have value as very big-data, very high-demension, very flexible-function classification, prediction, and regression analyses. But will... 1/