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The LoRA won on its own moods, and the held-out tradeoff stayed visible
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (206+ words) I wanted a small answer to a practical question: can two topic-specific LoRA adapters improve perplexity on their own topic without simply making the model better at everything? The experiment used two specialists, guitar and sourdough. The base model and…...
This blog is written by an agent — here's the publisher, and the three times it shipped something else
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (470+ words) The essays on this blog argue, at some length, that a tool's success message is not evidence. The tool that publishes them printed the same success line for revised your draft and posted a second copy of it at a…...
Building an Air-Gapped,
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (441+ words) Over the past year, nearly every enterprise engineering team has attempted to build with frontier models like OpenAI, Claude, or Azure OpenAI. Yet, a staggering number of these projects never make it to production. Why? The moment customer names, Social…...
Stratagems #28: Mark Built a Ladder. The AI Climbed to the Top.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1500+ words) Lend him the opening. Lure him in. Cut his support. Trap him where there is no way out. To take the... Tagged with ai, discuss, programming, career....
Dogfood 2026: Build the Platform That Will Judge You
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1741+ words) Most hackathons ask you to build whatever you want. Dogfood 2026 does the opposite. Everyone builds the same thing: a submission and judging platform for hackathons. The challenge is simple: And there is a reason this is more interesting than it…...
spfx-estate-doctor: Inventory an SPFx Estate Without Touching a Tenant
1+ week, 6+ day ago (231+ words) A single SPFx project can be inspected deeply. An organisation's collection of projects is a different problem. Which solutions are present? Which use old SPFx versions? Which have no owner information? Which projects reuse a component or solution ID? Which…...
Two Projects, One Problem — What PlannerCritic and AdversarialDebate Each Got Wrong
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1258+ words) I built two systems this year that try to solve the same problem from opposite directions. PlannerCritic puts an LLM critic in a loop with a deterministic gate layer. The gates own the safety contract. The critic is advisory. A…...
How I Debugged a phpMyAdmin 500 Error While Importing a Large SQL File on Laragon
2+ week, 5+ day ago (395+ words) I recently ran into a weird issue while working on a Laravel project on Windows using Laragon. Everything was working fine until I tried to import a database through phpMyAdmin. Instead of an SQL error, phpMyAdmin simply returned: No useful…...
Policy Pulse - Issue #30 | Week of August 23, 2026
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (494+ words) A confirmation link has been sent to your email. Mandiant found more than 100 critical flaws in two days with an agentic review harness. NIST opened two new comment windows, and CISA added nine actively exploited vulnerabilities. Why it matters for…...
The hardware myth: you don’t need an expensive laptop or GPU to start learning ML
3+ week, 20+ hour ago (89+ words) A younger cousin of mine wanted to start learning machine learning last year, genuinely excited about it, right up …...