Celebrating a rare dumpster fire in the kingdom of science.

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

We benchmarked OpenAI gpt-image-1, Google nanoBanana, and Seedream across 600+ real-world photo edits, see latency, cost, and quality by task

We built a(nother) house optimized for LAN Parties.

attention and speculation as primary economic drivers

AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls

AI, Gold, and the New Logic of Governance

If you’re one of those people who watches the Olympics and wishes they’d put a normal person in the competition so we

The Great Ball Contraption is a class of machines built with Lego that transport small balls from place to place in many different

A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.

Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction

Summary: Human populations will start to decrease globally in a few more decades. Thereafter fewer and few humans will be alive to contribute labor and to consume what is made. However at the same historical moment as this decrease, we … Continue reading →

They have one job and they can't do it

Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), …

FAQ: What’s a @KevlinHenney? In the name of failure Recent events have prompted me to finally write up an answer to what is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions I receive online and …

My startup Truss (gettruss.io) released a few LLM-heavy features in the last six months, and the narrative around LLMs that I read on Hacker News is now starting to diverge from my reality, so I thought I’d share some of the more “surprising” lessons after churning through just north of 500 million tokens, by my […]

In a flight test, the DJI FlyCart 30 could ferry 234 kg an hour, a task carried out by some 14 porters in six hours.

Kacee Johnson provides business consulting services focused on Sales, Marketing, Operations and Business Development for targeted growth.

Sleep supports memory consolidation, but can it also facilitate memory reorganization? This study reveals that N2 sleep, but not N1 sleep during a nap, increases the likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous decision-making task, and that spectral slopes of EEG power spectra predict future insights.

The disruption is real. It's also predictable.

Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.