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On futile explanations

The best sentence I wrote last week: It's true that ‘California regulatory compliance / bureaucratic dysfunction’ is a plausible explanation, but without specific details it's unsatisfying in the same way as ‘it's God's will’: it applies equally well to all puzzles and it explains nothing.

Content-Type: text/shitpost · EN

[TJ's notes]

Some years ago Tom Leinster wrote a wonderful explanation of what makes a (mathematical) definition 'natural' : It’s a matter of aesthetics, and obviously there’s no precise answer, but here’s my stab at it. When you meet a new definition, there are two questions you might ask: where does it come from? and why is the definition exactly that, not something slightly different? If there’s a satisfactory answer to both, you can call the definition ‘natural’. I've not been as careful about my definitions in the same way but I've been very careful about the notions and theories that I tend to study.

WebNest of Tomas Jakl · EN

From IoT Fleets to Agent Fleets: Why I Wrote C.H.A.R.T.E.R.

C.H.A.R.T.E.R. is a fail-closed standard for governing a fleet of AI agents: one small file per agent lists every model, tool, host, and limit it may use, and the loader that runs it is the only door.

CodeNSolder · EN