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All posts →Bounded Wrongness: A Field Guide to Probabilistic Data Structures
Bloom filters and their descendants trade a bounded, one-sided, tunable error for a space collapse exact structures can't match. The whole family, with the math.
June 28, 2026
·bloom-filteralgorithmsThe Rest of the Crate: Tempo, Key, and Never Stranding a File
Part 2 of building cratemind: the unglamorous 80%, tempo that lies by an octave, key from 1990s music theory, and a downloader that never quietly loses a track.
June 23, 2026
·open-sourceaudio-mlYour Music Has No Genre: Reading It Off the Waveform
Spotify deleted the BPM API and underground techno has no genre tag anywhere, so I stopped looking the genre up and started computing it from the audio.
June 15, 2026
·audio-mllocal-firstYour Coding Agent Has Amnesia: It's the Harness, Not the Model
The same model behaves like a genius on small tasks and a goldfish on big ones. The bottleneck isn't intelligence. It's memory, and memory lives in the harness.
June 09, 2026
·coding-agentsllmMemory as Polynomial Projection: The Mathematics of Long-Context Predictive Modeling
HiPPO's polynomial-projection idea is the through-line from S4 to Mamba-3 to HiSS. And it argues that long-context LLMs and long-context prediction are not the same problem.
May 19, 2026
·deep-learningmambaWritten by Serendeep Rudraraju — navigating the intersection of technology and humanity.