Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal

books.kriskowal.com My family’s self-published baby books are now available for digital download including BAD WORDS, Pedantic Shapes, the NATO alphabet book, and Tots’ Tengwar. Basic Binary Board Book is in print on Amazon.

Not to be confused with Endo.js, the JavaScript platform framework for safe execution of and communication with third-party code. github.com/endojs/endo

The font is my rendition of the text on the tender of my belovèd Jupiter, the iconic locomotive that booped the 119 at the ceremony that joined the American transcontinental railroad.

tiny neural net navigating a field of black holes to goals with some relativistic effects from the ball's pov visualized. the ball/nn also experienced time dilation so it runs slower when going faster/in a deeper gravity well.

We should maximize the amount of proof we can get out of AI while the money cannon is on. It's like early days of Uber, except the benefits are 100x more tangible. A fully-verified hw+sw stack? That's like gold everyone can share w/out having to divide. Generational opportunity.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Wherein cdub is killing it.

Incredible

(still a wip, but) I started exploring the x86 boot path as an interactive tutorial kumavis.github.io/vibe-dump/co...

Long ago, I made what I suspect is a novel modification to the Sleator-Tarjan top-down splay tree for incrementally tracking the index of every value in a sorted set. I never got around to writing a paper about it and notably still have not, but enjoyed reading one. https:// kriskowal.com/wwst/

instead of "googled" I will start saying "duckduckwent"

The question isn't “Does AI possess moral status?” This is a red herring. It's “What kind of person do I become if I make a habit of treating beings I encounter with contempt?”

"refine" / "coarsen" "recourse" / ... finen?????

M. Night Shyamalan's YouTube channel (which is something he has now) came out of nowhere with this great line.

I’ve binned up my writing about module system design from the various corners of the internet kriskowal.com/tags/modules/

you have to watch every second. i…wow.

Some fresh words on designing module systems kriskowal.com/designing-mo...

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Celebrating with @roguelike.club by posting the meta on my Emoji Quest kriskowal.com/emojiquest

Sousbisquing

Anthropic does not hire junior people and doesn't know how to train new hires into senior people and this problem is already being replicated across the tech industry.

Threw some more references into the context chipper.

I hope it was a Furby

torrent.nexus

The bots say “conditional” when they should say “contingent”. I blame *you*.

#fontober day 11: latin caps letters have horizontal strokes at the top, middle, and bottom. if you tilt the letters upwards, the bottom stroke on the first letter lines up with the middle stroke on the second, and likewise the middle and top strokes, and you get these long strokes thru EAK and CAR

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

Centralised power in hands of one guy other branches of government are afraid to say no to, businesses jumping through hoops to stay in his good graces, oligarchy controlling politics through bribes, starting senseless wars, befriending dictatorships, masked forces abducting people in streets...

It's insane that until relatively recently this all would describe Russia but now equally well applies to the US. How did you manage to fall so far so quickly? Equal parts bewildering, scary and disappointing.

So.. a thing happened. blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-c...

Randomly provoked thought: The old anecdote: Ford aspired to pay his workers enough to afford the cars they were making. Walmart aspired to pay their workers so little they had to shop there. You might mistake these as both dogfood, but only the former scenario involves voluntary customers.

In which "decal" and "cockamamie" are the same word, both from French "décalcomanie"! "calque" ("to copy, to trace, to calque") is an extremely close relatively. Variously more distantly (all from Latin "calx": "heel"): "recalcitrant", "caltrop", "calzone", "Chaucer"

trying to remember to use leaflet for writing that is too long for posts but still too half-formed for my personal site. here's some thoughts about AI etiquette

Before people learned music with 'do re mi', the sequence once began with 'ut' as the lowest note. The absolute lowest note recognised in medieval music was 'Γ ut', with the Greek letter gamma, and 'Γ ut' came to refer to the full range of possible notes. This is behind the phrase 'run the gamut'.

@nicr.dev is correct, and emphasize *people* with LLMs are a thread to communities and *people* need to adapt their mores to effectively navigate and protect this forever-altered world we share. Do not be an imposition. Consequences will follow. bsky.app/profile/kris...

This quiz sees me.

I love this. (and the people following the #linguistics tag need to see it too)

The only moat remaining is integrity.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility