Author name: Sam Kenyon

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Miscellaneous Links #49

The floating homes of Lake Titicaca The wall confronting large language models How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC Physics Demonstrates That Increasing GreenhouseGases Cannot Cause Dangerous Warming, Extreme Weather Or Any Harm Scaling Laws for Optimal Data Mixtures Pelage’s PP405 Demonstrates Efficacy in Phase 2a Trial for Androgenetic Alopecia Unmasking the surgeons: […]

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Miscellaneous Links #48

Identifying AI Hazards and Responsibility Gaps A real-time trajectory planning approach for dynamic environments with dense obstacles Effects of maze appearance on maze solving The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3) The Shinbashira: A History of Japanese Tree Like Architecture O Holy Crap ChatGPT Has […]

main, robotics

Cyborg Insects Update 2

Previously, I logged the history of insect-machine hybrid robots in “A Brief History of Cyborg Insects (and Spiders)”. I gave a quick update a year ago in “Cyborg Insects Update: The Amazing Cockroach, Biomimetic Robots and Cyborg Bugs in Recent Years.” So far in 2025, I’ve noticed two new stories about cyborg insects. Both of […]

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Miscellaneous Links #47

AI Genome modeling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn’t really explain how it’ll help developers OthelloGPT learned a bag of heuristics Vibe Coding – A New System of the World Robotics How to get a robot collective to act like a smart material […]

future, main

Eating Bugs

A Sign of Decivilization? Like most people, the notion of eating insects grosses me out. Of course we probably eat small bugs or bug parts all the time without knowing it. I read a theory somewhere that vegetarian Indians used to get sufficient protein partially from the bugs they accidentally ate that were in the […]

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Miscellaneous Links #46

AI Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library LLMs and World Models Brain-to-Text Decoding: A Non-invasive Approach via Typing AI is Stifling Tech Adoption Robotics ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot Biohybrid hand […]

main, projects

Recipes

Food recipes, that is. But cooking is kind of like programming and other computer efforts, isn’t it? Although it might not seem obvious, there is a very close connection between Coding and Cooking, as they are similar in many ways, to name a few they both need creativity, and have a solid foundation from where […]

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Miscellaneous Links #45

AI MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI The Product Lifecycle of Human Labor: Will humans become an idle resource? You are an absolute moron for believing in the hype of “AI Agents”. 25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes Game developers […]

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Miscellaneous Links #44

AI Towards System 2 Reasoning in LLMs: Learning How to Think With Meta Chain-of-Thought emg2qwerty: A Large Dataset with Baselines for Touch Typing using Surface Electromyography Towards Scalable and Stable Parallelization of Nonlinear RNNs Ensemble everything everywhere: Multi-scale aggregation for adversarial robustness Customizable AI tool developed at Stanford Medicine helps pathologists identify diseased cells Robotics […]

coding, main, management

Making Decisions Less Painful

Beware the Shiny Objects No shocker here: You have to make decisions in work and in life. It would seem the choices you make get harder and have bigger, longer-lasting consequences as one gets older—adulting, right? But many of us had to make at least a few huge decisions right out of the gate, for […]

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