Terence Tao’s “smell test” pinpoints today’s AI dilemma: superb at imitation yet short on genuine reasoning. This article follows process supervision from costly theory to generative, self-evolving practice—illuminating a path toward truly thinking machines.

I once regarded ‘aphantasia’ with indifference, secure in my own imagination. Yet a chance reading shocked me into recognising that I cannot ‘see’ images in the mind’s eye. This essay records that belated discovery and my re-examination of memory and thought.

I used to scoff at talk of AI ushering in ‘intellectual levelling’. Yet a recent hunt for Russian-literary sources revealed the limits of my skill and AI's reach in vaulting knowledge barriers. Here is that change of heart, with modest thoughts on retrieving information.

Investigating a frustrating workspace 'flashback' bug when using the Arc browser with the AeroSpace tiling window manager on macOS. Root cause: Arc's frequent makeKeyAndOrderFront: calls conflicting with AeroSpace's Accessibility API-based virtual workspace mechanism.

I built a reusable component for rendering interactive Vega-Lite charts on my blog. This post explores the implementation, the power of the underlying Grammar of Graphics, and why this declarative approach is ideal for data-driven insights from my machine learning work.

I created a simple Preact component for my Astro site to render PDF documents, like arXiv papers, using just an ID or a URL. This allows for seamless integration of papers for future discussions, notes, or analysis, avoiding iframes for better design control.