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All posts →Your 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-learningmambaEnergy-Based Transformers: The 1982 Architecture Finally Got Compatible Training Tricks
An EBM finally crossed 800M parameters without collapsing. Nobody has independently reproduced the 35% scaling claim. Both halves matter.
May 07, 2026
·deep-learningai-architectureThe Open Source AI Lie: Weight-Washing, Broken Definitions, and Who Benefits
No major AI model meets the open source definition. Here's who's faking it, who benefits, and why the strongest argument against caring is uncomfortably real.
April 08, 2026
·open-sourceaiWritten by Serendeep Rudraraju — navigating the intersection of technology and humanity.
