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A version of this essay was originally published at the Library Innovation Lab blog. For a recent installment of Gizmodo's Giz Asks series, Gayoung Lee asked researchers in computer science, cybersecurity, and libraries: will we ever solve the problem of

Image: Copy of the Athena Parthenos, ca. second century B.C. - "a rather free Hellenistic adaptation" of Pheidias's lost original, erected in the Library of Pergamon. Pergamonmuseum, Berlin. Photograph from Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard Library. Ch

I put up a small compute substrate estimator. It is a vibe-coded estimation model for thinking about where on Earth there is enough silicon for large scale LLM hosting. The offers a ballpark answer to questions like: if a company wanted to release a Fable

The Lessig Pathetic Dot Simulator is a visualization or toy to explore Lawrence Lessig's "pathetic dot" model, under which behavior is regulated by law, markets, social norms, and architecture/code. As Lessig explained in his 1999 book Code and Other Laws

The Great AI Alignment Love Match is a five-minute quiz to decide if you are more of a Safetyist, Accelerationist, Skeptic, or Normalist. The point of this quiz - other than as an homage to the online quizzes of the early 2000s - is to explore Jonathan Zi

Shawn Wang at Cognition tweeted two charts from FrontierCode - the benchmark Cognition launched on Monday to test coding agents' ability to create fully mergeable pull requests. I pulled out the top-scoring models from those charts to highlight one of the

A version of this essay was originally published at the Library Innovation Lab blog. Today I am sharing the Agent Protocols Tech Tree. APTT is a visual, videogame-style tech tree of the evolving protocols supporting AI agents. Where did this come from? I

How the Harvard Library Innovation Lab is preserving and making Data.gov datasets discoverable using BagIt and static search

The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.

A version of this essay was originally published at MIT Technology Review. With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for-and what it shouldn't. MIT Technology Review Expl