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I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they're capable of. Is this tech so useful […]

A short case study from MADAR Network — October 2026 Moving money from one blockchain network to another is still one of the most confusing things a regular user can do. When we added cross-network transfers to Madar Swap, our swap page, we set ourselves two rules before writing a single line: Nobody should sign something they cannot read. Nobody should need a block explorer to know where their money is. This post describes why we chose those rules, what they look like for a ...

Submitted to the Open-Source AI Challenge, Week 1: Touch Grass. Tag: #hf26challenge . Repo: github.com/itzneel05/wander Code: https://github.com/itzneel05/wander The challenge theme was touch grass, so I want to describe the opposite of what most of us do with AI. You are walking down a street you have crossed a hundred times. You know roughly where you are. You do not know that the brick building on the corner was a fire station in 1911, or that the small park ahead was a rail yard ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Arranging a padel match can be surprisingly tedious. You need four players of roughly similar ability, available at the same time, preferably with compatible expectations. In practice, this means checking club apps, messaging WhatsApp groups, negotiating times, and chasing people for confirmation. I wondered whether personal AI agents could handle some of that coordination f...

This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge I gave gpt-5.4-mini a logic puzzle: seven people, seven days, ten clues, "Who gives the talk on Friday?" With reasoning effort set to none , it replied: Cleo FINAL ANSWER: Cleo 18 output tokens. $0.00024. Wrong. (The answer is Fay.) It gave the same wrong answer, word for word, on the second repeat. At high it spent 1,333 tokens, cost about $0.006, and said Fay. That looks like an argument for always ...

Someone asks, "What does a Senior Engineer earn here?" Your chatbot answers. With citations. Nobody hacked anything. Similarity search found the HR salary chunk because that chunk lived in the same index as the travel policy. I keep seeing the same leaks in "docs chatbot" demos. The full working project (ASP.NET Core / .NET 10, Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData + Microsoft.Extensions.AI, tests, offline mode) is in Tech Skill Builder . This post is the short version: five mistakes that turn RAG...

Originally published on Medium . Seventh in a series on building an autonomous AI organism that operates real infrastructure under a constitutional safety model. Part 1 introduced two gates, Part 2 the wall, Part 3 the layers, Part 4 the governor, Part 5 the memory, and Part 6 the whole anatomy. This one is about a number I did not expect to write down: how often an agent's report about its own work disagreed with the world, once we started checking every time. This week Sa...

Want to understand how artificial intelligence works beyond calling a library function? One way to learn is to build a small neural network yourself. In this tutorial, we will build a neural network from scratch using pure Python. We will not use TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy, or scikit-learn. Everything, including the forward pass, loss calculation, backpropagation, and weight updates, will be implemented using Python's standard library. Our project will predict whether a student passes an e...

A missing description makes your agent hesitate. A near-duplicate tool name makes it confidently call the wrong tool — and that's the nastier failure mode. That line isn't mine. It came from arobakid, who commented on my original mcp-lint article last week. He works at Elva, where he scores OpenAPI-to-MCP name conversions all day — this is his production pain, not a thought experiment. He asked for a near-duplicate tool-name detection rule, then volunteered to test it. So v0.2 is basically ...

Two readers argued with my billing model in the comments, and they were right. So mcp-tax 0.3 rebuilds it. The correction: schemas re-enter the window on every turn The old audit billed each server's tool schemas once per session. That's wrong — the whole context, including every tool schema, is re-sent to the model on every API call. A 30k-token schema in a 20-turn session isn't a 30k tax; it's a 600k tax that also has to fit inside the window 20 times over. The new ledge...

I've been having trouble with Android games running smoothly, and I'm trying to understand what causes it. Sometimes a game runs fine at first but starts lagging after playing for a while. I've been wondering if the problem is related to phone temperature, RAM usage, graphics settings, or the game itself. I've tried lowering graphics settings, but I'm curious about what else can help improve performance without making the game look too bad. For those who play games on Android, I'd like ...

When a Shopify catalog changes, localization work can quietly fall out of sync. A product title gets revised, a size guide URL changes, or a new shipping line appears on the source page. The translated storefront may still look polished while a small but important detail is now stale. A simple review loop helps catch those changes before customers do. 1. Choose the pages that matter most Start with a short list: your highest-traffic product pages, collection pages, shipping an...

Originally published at guushu.com/notes . I keep the original updated, so this copy may lag. A Worker sent mail through Cloudflare Email Service, the messages were arriving, and the sender had checked the raw sources to be sure. The Cloudflare Email Sending activity log still listed only failures, and Analytics showed 0 successes and a 100% failure rate. I answered that thread on Cloudflare Community on Sep 24. You don't have to take the dashboard's word for it, or anyone's guess. The A...

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