Stop! Ontology time!
Is that a *hole* in your reasoning?
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Michal Zalewski on geek culture, algorithms, and electronic circuit design.
Recent essays
30 of 32The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
For the past couple of weeks, you could get my latest book — The Secret Life of Circuits — directly from the publisher.
Dead German guys
The joys and perils of talking about philosophy.
The tyranny of the op-ed
Join us for another round of breaking news from the blogosphere
Yours truly
What’s truth? Does it matter? Should you be asking a blog?...
Haunted by the ghosts of materialism
Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
A SKILL.md for commenting on Hacker News
Roll a D6.
The “C” word
Are humans conscious? Not all LLMs agree.
What little hope remains
I am alone now.
“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here
Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.
Inverse-square law
In which Sally loses her marbles.
Recursion into madness
Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI
Fluorescent lamps (don’t) have ears
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Journal of Negative Results
Know your paradoxes
We must not allow a paradox gap.
Severance
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Negative resistance
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My falling-out with the rationalist community
This is an article I resisted writing for a long time.
Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home
When working on my latest book, The Secret Life of Circuits, I wanted to keep the artwork real.
Panel meter calculator with floating point
Yes, there's a video at the end of the article.
Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator
An oscillator so bad it's actually good. But seriously, it's still bad. But in a good way?
Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier
Capacitor vendors don't want you to know this! Save money on capacitors by spending more on other components
All logic, no bite
This radio station gets many requests for treatises on formal logic.
AI children's books, body horror edition
Last week, I posted a visual demonstration of the sameness of AI-generated content.
The 100,000 whys of AI
One of the most painful arguments I keep having with fellow techies is the question of whether you can distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text.
Getting silly with C, part &((int*)-8)[3]
Read on to uplevel your coding SKILLS.md.
Weekend trivia: your process' memory is a file
The underappreciated gem of /proc/ /mem
A nicer voltmeter clock
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management
Bringing a well-known programming language into the 21st century.
The Secret Life of Circuits
👉 An updated version of this article is available below.
Why I refrain from infosec punditry
If you know about my professional background, the most puzzling aspect of this Substack must be that I don’t use it to talk about my primary field of expertise: information security.