Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

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networkQuality - a command line utility on Mac for .... testing network quality.Useful if you're still running ping like a caveman (/me raises hand) to see if the network is actually up.
Adversarial News and Lost Profits: Manipulating Headlines in LLM-Driven Algorithmic Trading, the threat of human-imperceptible market manipulationAnd by human-imperceptible we mean Unicode games.
The fall of the theorem economy - David Bessis“The problem with unintelligible mathematics isn’t that it might be false. It is that it is literally meaningless, in...
MAI-Thinking-1: Building a Hill-Climbing Machine (pdf)109-page technical report from Microsoft how to train a modern LLM.
Stop Using Pull Requests - the expensive illusion of software qualityThe blog post I've wanted to write for years about how the industry standardizing on pull requests is an expensive mi...
Innovations in desalination significantly reduce costSinking units to the ocean floor can leverage the pressure of the water to push through the filters
In the US, in March, more electricity came from renewables than gas.The first time renewables have passed gas.
Metal–organic framework: Coordination networks and molecular sponges for gas storage 🧽Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) consist of metal ions or clusters coordinated to organic ligands to form one-, two-, ...
Latent Space: ML for Material Science, active learning for chemical discovery 🔬Heather Kulik discusses how machine learning and AI are accelerating the discovery of new materials, specifically usi...
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal Organic Frameworks, a lego block for precision chemicalsSusumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize for the development of metal-organic fra...
Mirage: The Illusion of Visual Understanding"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark wit...
China battery trio gain $70bn as Iran war sparks ‘paradigm shift’Not the way we hoped the climate transition would happen.
Suddenly, the US manufactures a ton of grid batteries | Canary MediaUp from roughly zero capacity in 2024, US now on track to has capacity for 96 GWh of grid spec battery cells by end o...
Swamp ClubAI automations framework
optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter - GEPA"The key insight is that a surprisingly wide range of problems can be formulated as optimizing a text artifact".

2002

Good News: wireless, Bad News: wingnuts Apr 20
Dew on the Proteas Apr 20
A Personal History of RSS Apr 17
Anti-Globalization Action Figure Apr 15
Morning on the beach Apr 10