Motivation For a recent writing project that built on an earlier piece I had written in a hurry, I wanted to see if GenAI could help the way it already does for programming. Because my ideal venue was arXiv (an open‑access preprint library), I wanted a LaTeX‑based workflow for typesetting and citations, rather than the—on these fronts limited—Ch... Read more... 19 Oct 2025
Clock skew - the phenomenon where computer clocks diverge from real time - remains a challenge even in the modern age of computing. A common solution is to periodically synchronize clocks with Internet time sources (“NTP”), but heavily firewalled servers may not benefit and can still drift. In scenarios where matching timestamps in log files is ... Read more... 16 Oct 2025
Clock skew - the phenomenon where computer clocks diverge from real time - remains a challenge even in the modern age of computing. A common solution is to periodically synchronize clocks with Internet time sources (“NTP”), but heavily firewalled servers may not benefit and can still drift. In scenarios where matching timestamps in log files is ... Read more... 16 Oct 2025 - 1 minute read
Ethan Mollick describes the Jagged Frontier of AI as strong performance on some tasks, brittle or poor performance on others that look similarly hard to humans. It is tempting to assume this frontier advances smoothly over time - as is usual with technological progress. Helen Toner - interim executive director at Georgetown University’s Center f... Read more... 12 Oct 2025
Ethan Mollick describes the Jagged Frontier of AI as strong performance on some tasks, brittle or poor performance on others that look similarly hard to humans. It is tempting to assume this frontier advances smoothly over time - as is usual with technological progress. Read more... 12 Oct 2025 - 3 minute read