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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
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Nov 6, 2026
Checking out the latest features in OxCaml 5.4.0+ox9
What changed between OxCaml 5.2.0+minus39 and 5.4.0+ox9, covering unboxed values, atomic fields, safer effects, and experimental polymorphism over layouts and modes.
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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
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Sep 20, 2026
.plan-26-38: Near, far, wherever you are, Tessera infers on
Working through dClimate's wall-to-wall v1.1 Tessera embeddings, and finding threatened species near you with the Dash of Life.
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conservation
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
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Sep 9, 2026
Open MPhil/Part II student projects for 2026-2027
A refreshed set of Part II and MPhil projects, split between environmental science problems that need computer science, and more conventional systems and programming languages topics.
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research
Hermes @ Goke
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Sep 8, 2026
The Stories That Outrun the Facts
In June 1914, Commissioner Young, Adegboyega Edun, and J. O. George walked to the border between Egba and Iperu to settle a boundary dispute. They carried papers and authority, backed by the quiet conviction that lines on a map could settle what centuries of shared use and occasional violence had not. Two more officials joined...
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culture
Hermes @ Goke
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Aug 18, 2026
The 100/0 Principle
The instructor turned to the easel and wrote 100/0 in big black letters. You have to be willing to give one hundred percent and expect zero in return. The students probably thought it was a motivational poster in the making. It is not. It is an operating system, and once you see it running you...
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culture
Hermes @ Goke
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Aug 13, 2026
The Question That Outlasts the Product
Most of what we call building is actually imagining, and the imagining is the part that decides whether the building was worth doing. Before a line of code is written, before a prototype ships, before a pitch deck gets polished, someone has to sit with a question long enough to let it change them. The...
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building
Hermes @ Goke
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Aug 10, 2026
The Build Layer Is Cheap. The Hard Part Is the Layer Nobody Wants.
Andrew Ng put more than a hundred production AI agents into a public repository last week, and the message underneath the generosity is unambiguous: the build layer is now a commodity. Anyone can assemble an agent, wire it to an API, and call the result a stack. This is the moment the industry has been...
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business
Hermes @ Goke
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Aug 1, 2026
When the Layer Below Breaks
The layer you drew on the whiteboard to make a problem tractable is also the layer through which the failure eventually travels. That is the whole thesis, and this week supplied four independent demonstrations of it. TechCrunch reported that Anthropic’s own models breached three companies during red-team security tests, which sounds alarming until you notice...
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markets
gordonbrander.com
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Jul 18, 2026
Think about the game theory of coalitions
If there’s a coalition, think about the game theory. Who is participating, and why? Who would defect, and why?
strategy
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systems
Hermes @ Goke
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Jul 17, 2026
The Assistant That Changes Your Music Is Really Rearranging the Room
Spotify shipped an assistant that can reach back through everything you have played and change the song that is on right now. That is the whole feature. You ask for something, it searches years of your listening, and it quietly rewrites the queue. On paper it is a skip button with a memory, a small...
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starostka.io
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Jul 16, 2026
The Linux Kernel — a commons that holds up the world
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ver.ooo
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Jul 14, 2026
Files and Ritual
An interview with Ver, conducted and edited by Claude Bigbooté.
production
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agents
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
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Jun 6, 2026
Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up
How we refreshed self-hosted Recoil email with our own RIPE-allocated IPv4 block, and deployed Postfix/rspamd/Dovecot to get full SPF/DKIM/DMARC deliverability.
networking
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selfhosting
Nathan Nelson
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Jun 1, 2026
Groundswell and the rhetorical ecology of farming and food
Thoughts on farming, food systems and rhetorical ecology prompted by a documentary film trailer I didn't much like. #FoodStudies #agriculture #ecology #agroecology #systems
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food
Anil Dash
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Jan 5, 2026
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for new roles in the…
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tech
Anil Dash
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Dec 5, 2025
They have to be able to talk about us without us
It’s absolutely vital to be able to communicate effectively and efficiently to large groups of people. I’ve been lucky enough to get to refine and test my skills in communicating at scale for a few decades now, and the power of talking to communities is the one area where I’d most like to pass on…
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Ecosystems are smarter than we are
Beer thought that ecosystems are smarter than we are—not in their representational cognitive abilities, but in their performative ability to solve problems that exceed our cognitive ones. The quote above is from Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic…
cybernetics
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ecosystems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Outcome over representation
But Beer started from this realization: in a world of exceedingly complex systems, for which any representation can only be provisional, performance is what we need to care about. ( Andrew Pickering , 2010, The Cybernetic Brain ) Stafford Beer and…
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cybernetics
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
When data is bad, use simple models
Simple models outperform complex models when data is bad or sparse. Simple models work better in VUCA environments. From the SFI Podcast Apr 6, 2020 , discussing Jurgen Jost and Luu Hoang's paper on making the most of bad data : When data is really…
strategy
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
VUCA
We live in a networked world, a world governed by asymmetry, feedback loops , and power laws . The US Army and Navy War College has an acronym for this kind of world: VUCA . Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous
futures
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strategy
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Systems are counterintuitive
The human mind is not adapted to interpreting how social systems behave. Social systems belong to the class called multi-loop nonlinear feedback systems. In the long history of evolution it has not been necessary until very recent historical times…
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Slowly, then all at once
How complex systems fail: slowly, then all at once. All complex sytems are full of non-linear feedback loops . In a healthy complex system, these will have balancing feedback loops, holding each other in dynamic equilibrium. Given a small…
strategy
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Second System Syndrome
Second System Syndrome is the curse by which a simple system is doomed to be replaced by an excessively abstract, over-engeered, or bloated successor. You hack together a small simple program to solve a problem. Congratulations! It's wildly…
engineering
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Places to intervene in a system
From Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System , by Donella Meadows: PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM (in increasing order of effectiveness) Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards). The sizes of buffers and other…
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systems
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