Theme selector

Two weeks ago I added dark mode to this website. It was late one night and I was revisiting an article and my eyes were tired, so that was that. It was based solely on system dark mode settings, and I started using some more nice, modern CSS features like light-dark() to tie it all together.

But some people want dark mode for their desktop and light mode for their websites or the opposite, and sometimes I’m like that too. So I wanted to do it.

But I want this website to be peculiar. Like: I obsessively optimize it and intentionally use zero...

A brief history of specifiers and protocols

If you’re running JavaScript on a server, how do you import a module? Traditionally, imports looked like this, with CommonJS:

const axios = require('axios');

But now they look like this with ECMAScript Modules:

import axios from 'axios';
// Or, less often, dynamically:
const axios = await import('axios');

However, there’s another layer of complexity: import specifiers.

I think the first kind of specifier for a real runtime - and I’ll be specific about that because the Webpack bundler supported a tremendous variety of import styles before this - was Node.js, in 2021 when they introduced the node: protocol.

Before the node: protocol was...

Петровский пассаж

Петровский пассаж и ГУМ похожи — галереи, стеклянные...

our Sunday no news

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=Emk6gFlDeGI

вот вам кино зато

принимаем положение низкого старта

ну и так далее

ну и юмор наших читателей, куда ж без него

вот вам две песенки о луне:

Theory and AI Alignment

The following is based on a talk that I gave (remotely) at the UK AI Safety Institute Alignment Workshop on October 29, and which I then procrastinated for more than a month in writing up. Enjoy!

Thanks for having me! I’m a theoretical computer scientist. I’ve spent most of my career for ~25 years studying the capabilities and limits of quantum computers. But for the past 3 or 4 years, I’ve also been moonlighting in AI alignment. This started with a 2-year leave at OpenAI, in what used to be their Superalignment team, and it’s continued...

2025 Year in Review

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Well, nearly another year in the books. How did it go?

It’s genuinely surprising to me how consistent my reading stays year-over-year. I don’t set reading goals or have a predictable pace, and every year has at least a month in which I’m reading nothing, my momentum growth to a halt. But at the end of every year, it’s range-bound between 19 and 22 for the past five years.

The count is 19 at the moment, but I’m reading a fast-paced sci-fi so it’ll probably be 20 by the end of the year.

A Confederacy of Dunces was easily the most entertaining book this year - an absolute riot, funny...

«Наука магии» от Дина Радина (Новости 11:11)

( Декабрь 2025, idb@kiwiarxiv )

Как выяснилось, наша недавняя статья про «ЦРУ и память о будущем» [i1], цитирующая свидетельства известного парапсихолога, была опубликована практически одновременно с выходом его новой — и по всему примечательной — книги. Игнорировать подобный факт синхроничности было бы неправильно, поэтому расскажем и о книге. Тем более, что издание это буквально все мировые СМИ дружно сопроводили гробовым молчанием. Причём вполне понятно почему…

Новая книга от Дина Радина вышла из печати в последних числах октября 2025 и носит название «Наука магии: О том, как разум сплетает ткань реальности» [o1].

Для всех людей, мало-мальски интересующихся парапсихологией — или, как ещё называют то...

Эскизы Сведомского для Владимирского собора

Павел Сведомский "Первый день творения. Сотворение света, отделение света от тьмы" 1887-1895 ...

НОВОГОДНИЙ ФЕСТИВАЛЬ ЯПОНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

Солнце на востоке восходит раньше и Новый год...

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