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Writing about agents, markets, and the code
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Stack Overflow Is Selling Proof That a Human Wrote It
Developer Story is back, sold as a verification layer for authorship. On the empty ledger, the notary framing, and who gets to certify a developer.
Sep 18, 2026
Beyond Correlation: measuring dependence the modern way
Pearson says 0, but X and Y are dependent. A guide to distance correlation, Chatterjee's xi, HSIC, KSG MI, and tail dependence, with a rerunnable b...
Sep 02, 2026
Lowercase Is a Mood
One bare a/A button in the masthead renders the whole site in lowercase. Display-only, so the source and the SEO stay proper case. A short note on ...
Aug 28, 2026
A LinkedIn Cover That Isn't Stock
One line of math, one curve: a LinkedIn cover from geometric Brownian motion, in the same palette as this blog. Why it's grey, where the text went,...
Aug 22, 2026
MCP Grew Up Fast: From Experiment to Enterprise Trust Boundary
how an 18-month standards effort quietly turned into the compliance layer for AI-to-CRM access
Aug 19, 2026
The Measurement Was Harder Than the Model
I distilled a 1.7B model into a BLS tool-calling agent. Six measurement mistakes in a row, a val-loss trap that was a config bug, a fix that came f...
Jul 27, 2026
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