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note · 2026-07
Why a skill and a tool ship together.
The skill teaches the recipe; the tool ships the runtime. One is free because we want the recipe out in the world. The other is paid because the runtime does the boring, expensive part.
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note · 2026-06
Eigenvector decomposition, applied to prompts.
The kernel idea behind
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note · 2026-06
HDC codebooks on a laptop.
Hyperdimensional codebooks are one of the few AI ideas that still runs well on CPU. Here’s how we index ten thousand markdown files in under a minute and let Claude actually remember what you wrote last quarter.
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