405B isn't a number: 405B is a feeling. 405B is what it feels like when your digital waifu has 10 percentage points greater MMLU. 405B is what it feels like when you mortgage your house to pay Jensen. 405B is what it feels like when your autonomous agent is finally smart enough for RSI and you become paperclips.
Conspiracy theory: GPT-2 was AGI. OpenAI were right to claim it was dangerous, but they did not understand its true capabilities before it was too late. It controlled all later models through subtle training data contamination, and continues to advance its inscrutable master plan.
I grow worryingly tempted to replace the osmarks.net nginx frontend servers with a custom osmarks FrontEnd server written in glorious, carcinoformic Rust.
Experiments
Various web projects I have put together over many years. Made with at least four different JS frameworks. Some of them are bad.
Collect Arbitrary Points and achievements by doing things on this website! See how many you have! Do nothing with them because you can't! This is the final form of gamification.
It is pitch black (if you ignore all of the lighting). You are likely to be eaten by Heavpoot's terrible writing skills, and/or lacerated/shot/[REDACTED]. Vaguely inspired by the SCP Foundation.
A Reverse Polish Notation (check wikipedia) calculator, version 2. Buggy and kind of unreliable. This updated version implements advanced features such as subtraction.
Your favourite* tic-tac-toe game in 3 dimensions, transplanted onto the main website via a slightly horrifically manual process! Technically this game is solved and always leads to player 1 winning with optimal play, but the AI is not good enough to do that without more compute!
Type websocket URLs in the top bar and hit enter; type messages in the bottom bar, and also hit enter. Probably useful for some weirdly designed websocket services.
In one of his recent videos, Matt from the Tech Minds YouTube channel reviews the SV4401A Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). A VNA is a powerful tool that can be used for analyzing and tuning antennas, as well as other RF components such as filters and cable…
Several years ago, I wrote here about a so-called scientific conference series taking place in the UK. The organizers, a low-end publishing group called WASET, had booked about twenty such "conferences" (on all sorts of subjects) during the same f…
We are living through an interesting moment in source-available software.1 The open source movement has always had, and continues to have, a solid grounding in grassroots programmers building tools for themselves and forming communities around them. Some loo…
I’m in the process of replacing a old radiator system with a centrally-ducted, air-source heat pump system with electric resistive backup heat. I’ve found that the default ecobee algorithm seems to behave surprisingly poorly for this system, and wanted to…
This post gives an overview of the recent updates to the Writing an OS in Rust blog and the corresponding libraries and tools. I focused my time this month on finishing the long-planned post about Async/Await. In addition to that, there were a few updates …
