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I’m Alex, a technologist from Calgary, Canada. This is my blog.

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A Monk in Brno


The peas were not, as a matter of historical correction, his first love. That distinction belonged to fuchsias, which he had grown in the window of his childhood bedroom in Hynčice and which, owing to some defect of soil or devotion, produced a single white bloom among the expected purples in the...
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A Professor in Every Pocket


The scale of the cheating crisis in higher education is staggering. Depending on the survey, between 60% and 92% of college students now regularly use AI for their coursework. Professors are ill-equipped, and administrators are broadly turning a blind eye to the entire situation. Treating this as...
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Logistics is Dying; or - Dude, Where's my Mail?


In March 1860, William H. Russell established the Overland Express Route, colloquially called the Pony Express, to carry express mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and California; an area with no colonialist settlements between. Russell failed repeatedly to get funding from the Senate Post Office...
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llms.txt


Imagine my shock and surprise to discover that when I submit resumes now, I quickly see LLM research agents in my access logs pouring over my portfolio page. As time moves ever forward, I suspect I’ll be dealing with AI agents more frequently, especially in the job market. I’m not...
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Truth Functional Logic for Hackers - Part One


Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset. When they profiled their micropython code, they found that OR...
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