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Sun Jan 26, 2025 —
Ouroboros: An infinite AI content feed
The Gilded Age of content is nearly upon us, when generative AI models will create everything we consume. Everything will be perfectly curated to the viewer and generated on the fly right before your eyes. This post demonstrates how the pieces are nearly there and how easy it is to put an app like this together.
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Mon Jun 06, 2022 —
Byte-sized Algorithms: Removing Duplicates
This is just some basic Leetcode-esque stuff I needed to do at work recently. It shouldn’t surprise or impress anyone who has thought about this before, but it was mildly interesting to think and write about.
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Thu Dec 30, 2021 —
Why NFTs Matter
It’s not about ape avatars, basketball highlights, or other digital trinkets. It’s about authentic relationships.
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Fri Jun 04, 2021 —
Newspeak in an AI-Driven World
Or: Stop trying to make everyone dumber, Outlook.
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Wed May 26, 2021 —
Do Self-Driving Cars Dream of Snitching?
A cynical (or realistic) take on how a utopian dream–autonomous, self-driving vehicles–can turn into a dystopian nightmare: the global snitching fleet of the future.
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Mon Dec 30, 2019 —
Why (Not) Peer-to-Peer?
An overview of the Internet’s growth in the 2010s and some questions about what’s to come… With the current state of centralized content distribution, why aren’t we moving to a peer-to-peer model?
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Thu Dec 20, 2018 —
Optimizing Sessionless Sessions
Or, arriving at the rationale behind the existence of JSON Web Tokens in an extremely roundabout fashion.
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Mon Oct 23, 2017 —
Efficient P2P Broadcasting
A memory-less solution that minimizes extra message duplication.
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Fri Jul 07, 2017 —
Tracking Your Every Move
Or, abusing MAC addresses for fun and profit (well, no profit unless you’re a massive corporation or the government…).