Are we just a couple steps away from a runaway AI?
28 August 2026
OpenAI's post-mortem of the Hugging Face incident got me thinking about what it would take for an AI system to run without anyone launching or controlling it.
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Book Review: Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch)
24 August 2026
A review of Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch), a hands-on book that rebuilds the DeepSeek innovations one at a time, from KV caching and Multi-Head Latent Attention through DeepSeek-MoE, multi-token prediction, FP8 training, GRPO, and distillation, at a scale that runs on a laptop.
Beyond Bigger MoE: How Kimi K3 Scales Context, Depth, and Agents
03 August 2026
Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal MoE model that combines hybrid linear–global attention, selective residual connections across depth, and large-scale agentic reinforcement learning.
Book Review: Python for Algorithmic Trading Cookbook
24 July 2026
A review of the second edition of Python for Algorithmic Trading Cookbook by Jason Strimpel, a 68-recipe book that goes from getting raw data to live execution on the Interactive Brokers API.
Harness Handbook: The Missing Layer for Editing AI Agents
20 July 2026
Harness Handbook proposes a new way to navigate large AI agent codebases by organizing them around behaviors instead of files. The result is better code localization, higher-quality edit plans, and more efficient agent engineering.
Book Review: Time Series with PyTorch
17 July 2026
A review of Time Series with PyTorch, a broad deep-learning-for-forecasting book that teaches from honest evaluation and PyTorch fundamentals through RNNs, transformers, conformal prediction and diffusion, and on into classification, clustering, and anomaly detection.