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Your Music Has No Genre: Reading It Off the Waveform
Spotify deleted the BPM API, and underground techno has no genre tag: not in the file, not in any database I could reach. So I stopped looking the genre up and started computing it from the audio.
Your 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.
Memory 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.
Energy-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.
The 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.
The Post-Transformer Era: State Space Models, Mamba, and What Comes After Attention
A practitioner's guide to Mamba and State Space Models — how selective state spaces achieve linear scaling, when to use SSMs vs Transformers vs hybrids, and production-ready models.
VLA Models Demystified: How Robots Learned to See, Listen, and Act
VLA models give robots the ability to see, parse language, and execute physical actions through a single architecture. This post covers how they work, what shipped in 2025, and where the limitations are.
JavaScript Date Is Broken. Here's What Replaces It
A tutorial on building a timezone-aware scheduler with React and the Temporal API, covering why Date fails at serious datetime work and how Temporal's type system prevents those bugs.
Open Source Sunday: Open Source Health Tools That Don't Sell You Out
Your fitness tracker is selling you out. The open source alternatives that aren't.
