January 2025

Quantum key distribution and authentication: Separating facts from myths

Quantum key distribution and authentication: Separating facts from myths

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Quantum key distribution and authentication: Separating facts from myths Key exchange protocols and authentication mechanisms solve distinct problems and must be integrated in a secure communication system. Quantum technologies Xinhua (Frank) Ling Juan Moreno January 14, 01:21 PM February 14, 11:46 AM Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a technology that leverages the laws of quantum physics to securely share secret information between distant communicating parties. With QKD, quantum-mechanical properties ensure that if anyone tries to tamper with the […]

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SWE-Bench authors reflect on the state of LLM agents at Neurips 2024

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The SWE-bench task measures AI agents on software engineering tasks at the level of a github issue. It was one of the most important tasks measuring the progress of agents tackling software engineering tasks in 2024. We caught up with two of its creators, Ofir Press and Carlos E. Jimenez, to share their ideas on the state of LLM-backed agents.

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Alan Watts: The Natural Environment and Religion

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Watts critiques our scholastic obsessions and urges an experiential approach to life, blending the spiritual and concrete like a Zen gardener planting mysteries among truths. He laments our sterile materialism and bureaucratic rigidity, championing a dance with risk, creativity, and nonverbal wisdom. With tales of mystics, scientists, and madmen, he celebrates the spice of oddballs, the necessity of nonsense, and the ineffable richness of being alive.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Some reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb

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The atomic bomb was not merely a weapon but a psychic rupture: by touching the source of matter itself, humanity crossed a threshold, discovering near-limitless power and collective intelligence. This shock transformed our self-image, forcing a choice between domination and union—and ultimately confronting us with evolution’s final question: what, or whom, are we becoming?

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2024 Year in Review

2024 Year in Review

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At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32 commits to Preceden, my timeline maker software, the entire year. Those commits were all small tweaks like switching the AI timeline generator from gpt-3.5-turbo […]

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: The Mysticism of Science

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Teilhard de Chardin charts how scientific inquiry evolved from occult secrets to aesthetic contemplation before the nineteenth century’s discovery of deep time ignited a revolutionary mysticism: humanity advancing toward a future it could shape. When materialism’s promise collapsed, leaving researchers spiritually adrift, Teilhard argues only Christianity can provide the animating soul science desperately needs—transforming the laboratory into a site of cosmic love.

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Michael Levin: Bioelectric Networks: An Interface to the Plasticity and Potential of the Agential Material of Life

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Michael Levin argues that life is not built merely from genes and chemistry, but from networks of bioelectric intelligence. Cells remember goals, coordinate across scales, and solve problems like minds. By rewriting these electrical “pattern memories,” medicine could heal cancer, regrow organs, and unlock a future where biology is programmed by meaning, not molecules.

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