Google’s TurboQuant algorithm compresses the KV cache (the RAM-hungry memory core of every large language model) by 6x, with no accuracy trade-off and no model retraining required. It operates near the theoretical lower bound of what information theory says is even possible. This is not incremental. If adopted at scale, the economics of AI inference flip. adlrocha’s writeup is the clearest explanation I’ve seen of why this matters.
What an epic movie. Received 8.5/10 on IMDB. I agree. Best movie I’ve seen in years. Skillful storytelling and cinematography. VFX to support the story, not swamp it. I will avoid spoilers. Loved the book - listened as an audio-book as I drove the 6+ hours drive to and from Canberra in the back end of 2024 as my father spent months in hospital. The audio-book was 16 hrs and 10 mins!
I’m never quite sure where to sit at the cinema. Too close feels wrong. Too far back feels like watching television. I end up somewhere in the middle and spend the first ten minutes of the film wondering if I got it right. So before heading to the Cameo Cinema in Belgrave on Sunday to see Project Hail Mary, I did what any reasonable person does in 2026. I asked Claude.
• What AI Hypists Miss - by Francis Fukuyama - Persuasion (persuasion.community) Francis Fukuyama examines the limitations and blind spots of artificial intelligence hype, arguing that AI systems fail to adequately address real-world complexities and practical challenges.
• Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis? (houseofsaud.com) Explores the controversial hypothesis that artificial intelligence psychosis or sycophancy may have influenced geopolitical decisions leading to conflict with Iran.
• The ‘Paperwork Flood’: How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles (sightlessscribbles.com) A humorous narrative exploring the overwhelming burden of bureaucratic paperwork and administrative red tape. The author uses satirical storytelling to illustrate how excessive documentation and procedural requirements can overwhelm even seasoned professionals
• Austria Plans Social Media Ban For Under-14s (tech.slashdot.org) Austria proposes implementing a social media ban for children under 14 years old, addressing concerns about youth online safety and digital platform usage among minors.
My first public internet post was in 1991. It was a post in rec.music.beatles which I accessed using a unix session over dial-up internet - 14,400 kbaud. Smoking fast!
Even then it was obvious that Paul McCartney’s voice was getting ‘worn’. He was 48 years old. Had been a consistent smoker and didn’t believe in hydrating during long concerts. He’s only recently decided to do it. A bit late at age 83!
In January, pre-restarting this blog, I sent a note to a friend listing 23 Chinese EV brands either confirmed, launching or strongly indicated for the Australian market by 2026. Twenty-three. In a country that sells 1.2 million new cars a year.
I wrote: “Are they all going to have service and parts for the next 7 years? What about beyond that?”
Today we got the first answer. No.
From The Atlantic, American Aviation Is Near Collapse The ICE deployment [to replace US airport security] is a particularly extreme example of what the political scientist Steven M. Teles has dubbed “kludgeocracy,” in which the government reaches for short-term, improvised solutions while resisting real reform. “‘Clumsy but temporarily effective,’” Teles has written “also describes much of American public policy. For any particular problem we have arrived at the most gerry-rigged, opaque and complicated response.
Wall Street has a name for it. They call it the TACO trade: Trump Always Chickens Out. The idea is simple. Trump announces something extreme, markets panic, he reverses course, markets rally. Traders who bet on the reversal clean up. It’s been reliable enough that Fortune, CNN and Bloomberg have all written it up as a repeatable strategy.
But TACO misses the point. Chickening out implies weakness, indecision, a man backing down. That framing is charitable. What if the pattern isn’t about losing nerve at all?
What if the pattern is about making money?
I want to propose a different acronym. TACI: Trump Always Cashes In.
I don’t watch reality TV. I find most of it unwatchable. The one exception is talent shows, and I’ve never fully understood why they hook me.
Most developers have a handful of git commands committed to muscle memory and a quiet dread of everything else. Rebase? Bisect? Reflog? Filed under “I’ll Google it when I need it.”
What is git? Git is version control for code. It tracks every change you make, lets you undo mistakes and enables multiple people to work on the same project without overwriting each other’s work. It’s the backbone of modern software development. Learn more at git-scm.com.
Coding agents change this completely. They know the full git command set and can execute it contextually. Ask one to untangle a merge conflict, rewrite messy commit history or recover lost work from the reflog. It just does it.
Simon Willison’s guide to using git with coding agents is the best practical walkthrough I’ve seen. Worth ten minutes of your time.