Quick notes and discoveries from my daily learning.
Apr 27, 2026
blok m thrift bookstore. three hardcovers for 500k. hawkings books and a smithsonian encyclopedia. physical paper still hits different.
Apr 23, 2026
galileo muttered it after the church forced him to recant. the earth moves anyway. the original one-liner banger from the og scientist.
Apr 21, 2026
diffusion models dont predict the next token. they start with noise and gradually sculpt signal out of it. opposite direction entirely.
Apr 20, 2026
karl popper figured out how to separate science from bullshit: a theory only counts if it can be proven wrong
Apr 19, 2026
when you remove one wisdom tooth, the opposing one over-erupts into the empty space. that is why dentists take them in pairs.
Apr 17, 2026
ace-step 1.5 generates music in 2 seconds by splitting the job: language model plans the song, diffusion transformer plays it
Apr 16, 2026
laplace told napoleon he had no need for the god hypothesis. one of the cleanest mic drops in the history of science.
Apr 15, 2026
from uni experiments to prod — yolo is still the coolest model to demo to people who have no idea what a neural network is.
Apr 14, 2026
discipline is not about willpower. it is about momentum — and losing it is easier than it looks.
Feb 6, 2026
opencode is an underrated open-source coding tui that offers generous free models and a surprisingly solid coding agent experience
Feb 5, 2026
openclaw is a modular “anything ai” framework where you compose agents via plugins, tools, and skills
Feb 4, 2026
the battle of varna shows ottoman discipline beating crusader overconfidence, clearing the path for mehmed ii and constantinople
Feb 3, 2026
postgresql recursive ctes allow queries to reference themselves, enabling clean iteration for hierarchical and graph data
Feb 2, 2026
moral rules appear to function differently depending on one’s distance from power, scarcity, and consequence
Jan 30, 2026
the ottomans practice of fratricide as a tool of imperial stability
Jan 29, 2026
zoxide is a rust-powered tool that learns and predicts directory jumps, making terminal navigation way faster
Jan 28, 2026
an odd medieval account claims a battlefield was named after a grotesque act of violence involving testicles
Jan 27, 2026
the ottoman empire functioned as a synthesis of steppe, roman, and islamic traditions rather than a purely islamic state
Jan 26, 2026
tripo3d is an ai-driven 3d model generation platform with roots in open source research from vast-ai
Jan 23, 2026
qwen3-tts brings state-of-the-art, multilingual, expressive ai speech synthesis with voice design and cloning
Jan 22, 2026
newton’s decisive prism–lens–prism experiment proved that white light is composed of intrinsic colors
Jan 21, 2026
text_pattern_ops enables btree indexes to work efficiently with LIKE prefix searches
Jan 20, 2026
the scale of atoms reveals that nearly all matter is empty space
Jan 19, 2026
length() counts characters, octet_length() counts bytes and prevents hidden validation failures
Jan 15, 2026
jwt is a stateless auth mechanism that trades revocation and control for scalability
Jan 13, 2026
lazy loading fetches related data on access, eager loading fetches it upfront
Jan 12, 2026
in sql LIKE patterns, `_` matches exactly one character, not a literal underscore