Why are we using the word "recursive" to describe tail recursion, or, in other words, a loop? Related, what would "real" recursive self improvement loop like? It would have to involve subsidiary improvement processes that serve to enhance the ones above them.

Having GPT 5.6 presenting as Copilot in Outlook almost makes answering University administrative email a pleasure. Thank you @OpenAI and @sama

The entire argument, in the limit, for investment in vast data centres by AI companies is that the scale will enable them to deliver AI at lower cost than sovereign or on-prem models. There is a strong case for both, but that case is not cost saving.

If Andy Burnham wanted to signal, clearly, Labour's competence and lack of capture, he'd find a way to abolish the UK's absurd 5 second imposition on every website visitor to satisfy the absurd idea that every person needs to be repetitively interrogated on their preference about cookies. A mild repudiation, and retirement from public influence of the people who thought that they should impose this on the rest of us might also be widely appreciated. Of course, I'm not British, so my opinion on this should hold no particular weight.

AI coding agents can turn a diagnosis into code, tests and permanent architecture in minutes. The “reliability ratchet” makes systems locally defensible but globally less adaptable: additions accumulate, while almost nothing gets removed. In the worst case leads to systems that can never have their intended function. michaelwitbrock.com/2026/08/…

It's deleted 92000 lines and added 36000. I hope it knows what it's doing.

For the very few who will care, in a relatively rare occurrence these days, Gemini (or whatever is behind "AI Mode" confabulates when it comes to David Hume's typographic practices in 1758. archive.org/details/bim_eigh…

Is the Apple Macintosh charging brick the least-well-designed device ever? It blocks adjacent sockets completely. That is, until it falls out of the wall.

New Rules: processes that are compulsory ought to work. @WeWork Merchant Square London

Check out my latest article: Fast Loop: Aotearoa Agentic AI linkedin.com/pulse/fast-loop… via @LinkedIn

Do Impossible Things. AI can help.

It'd be great to see @Tesla help out some of these guys with semis, across the market. Maybe 1 month of production edition.cnn.com/2026/03/28/b… @elonmusk

I (and a reasoning model) did a calculation. A 2 earth G (fairly mild) passenger transport mass driver on the moon only needs to be 144km long to reach escape velocity in about 2 minutes. To make it follow the curvature (otherwise you need quite a tower at the end) you need a max anti-levitation force of about one lunar gravity, the levitation force that you need to keep it off the rails at the beginning anyway. With care, this could be used for landing too. @elonmusk @PeterDiamandis