Daniel Feichtinger

I'm reviving my RESTful API stack that's been dormant the past year, starting with a refreshed Website and (2 year late) introductory blog post: www.allpurposemachines.com/posts/hyperm...

This never gets old (& also shows how hard forecasting AI is even for AI) “Hey Claude Fable & GPT-6 Astra, Without looking anything up, when do you think we will solve the Exponential Time Hypothesis?” (I only show part of the answers for space)

“Alongside fellow MPs, I have received reports of applications being refused because of convictions linked to the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests”, writes @bobbywdean.bsky.social 🗣️ Britain cannot shut the door on Hongkongers persecuted for defending democracy www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/brit...

"when United Airlines began printing its in-flight magazine on lighter paper to save a single gramme, the fuel cost saving across its fleet was close to $300,000 a year". That is a phenomenal fact. www.ft.com/content/2f16...

What impact will the government's new education policies have on standards? substack.nomoremarking.com/p/why-are-we...

Reminder that "formally proved program X" is a meaningless statement. You formally prove that some program or a reduced model of it upholds some kind of property or invariant

An illustration by Christian Broutin for a 1985 floppy disk ad

(generating certs for my root CA) ok now let's do a silly one

Could building data centres make electricity cheaper? Surprisingly, yes. - More demand dilutes the big fixed costs (i.e. grid) that make bills expensive - If we let them, they'll pay £££ to jump the grid queue - They can build their own power supply www.samdumitriu.com/p/build-the-...

more criterion posters for movies that deserve them

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In this “Jaws of Hell” roof boss from 12th-century Norwich Cathedral, dark spotted devil with long hair and cloven foot (at L) ushers condemned souls into the gaping fanged mouth of a hideous monster

A fun minimalist 3d rendering / shading technique youtube.com/shorts/1DfKV...

I like how the UK has, since 2010, engaged in an empirical experiment in "how long will your infrastructure last if you don't give money to maintain it" Very interesting study. Most unis' ethics panels wouldn't let you proceed with such a risky real-world example.

why are there several emoji for blood (🩸🅰️🆎🅱️🅾️) yet no emoji accounting for excesses of the other three humors? for phlegm, nothing. for yellow bile, nada. and for black bile, zippo. an astonishing oversight

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

The problem I have with all this stuff is that the friction is bad and it’s great to have an AI handle it. If your system only works because you only actually pay what you owe to the 10% of maniacs who spend three days penetrating your bureaucracy then it’s a horrible system that deserves death.

And new Pleias paper: in collaboration with AI Bridges and @wikimediade.bsky.social we developed a new harness for complex semantic search over the largest knowledge database, @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2610.06650

Publishing “Cryptographic Right Answers” for developers is a tradition by now. Colin Percival started in 2009, Thomas Ptacek followed up in 2015, and then Latacora carried on in 2018 and 2024. I put together a list updated for the renewed urgency of migrating to post-quantum algorithms.

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

i want everything i own to have a computer in it, but i want that computer to be MY computer

I’m more bought into AI becoming far more efficient, which is a massive lever on diffusion, than I am on AI models making massive breakthroughs that result in eliminating all the known weaknesses of LLMs. www.interconnects.ai/p/i-expect-r...

Ahab’s Irish granda checking in with him at Sunday dinner:

This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... www.ahmath.org/statements

Don't know what's funnier, the Tories absolutely cannonball diving on trustworthiness on the economy, or the Greens no longer being seen as the most trustworthy on the environment and climate change

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

I've stumbled across an image that sums up 1979 during the Scarred For Life era, combining ITV's 11 week strike with the Yorkshire Ripper...

Looking to expand our team. Are you a cracked harness engineer/AI researcher? Interested in forecasting the FUTURE? Care about averting AI risks and climate risks? (Remote/euro tz pref). DMs open.

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

me: "can you please update this PR to match the house style of this repo?" claude: "sure thing boss, one minute" *makes no code changes but rewrites all the comments to be lowercase, less descriptive, and less useful* lol yea...

Best Of 2000AD cover what I did #dayofdredd

**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

It has come to my attention that many people at #goatmire have not seen Erlang: The Movie. I think that is unacceptable. Please spread the word of our Lords and saviors, Mike, Robert, and Joe. youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE?...

Lib Dem polling, 2024-2026:

metallic statue at Crosby Beach this morning

Cloudflare is becoming a free certificate authority, and will be the first to issue post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates

They should reveal that care workers have a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, and raise the investment that way.

First page of the new Dredd story by Williams, Wyatt and Flint. At this point Flint is operating on a completely different level. The things he is doing here with perspective, flow, information and pacing feel intuitive but properly new.

[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.

frome celestepoasts on twitter asking "land or water" for 2 degree lat/long increments over the entire earth

Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...