Category: AI, Data, Search

  • Excuse me, could you hold my context?

    Someone at work recently said that with AI, their perceived cost of context switching had gone to zero. This surprised me at first because context switching is a notorious bugbear…

    Excuse me, could you hold my context?
  • The spinning plateau

    The wild elevator ride of winter 2025 Winter 2025 to spring 2026 were a wild elevator ride in AI coding and agents. Claude Opus 4.5 was released in late November…

    The spinning plateau
  • Planting @bot seeds đźŚ±

    My always-on assistant The Martin Bot, a Hermes Agent, reads my calendar, keeps my todo list and project notes, and sends me news briefings. Its main feedstock, however, are my…

    Planting @bot seeds đźŚ±
  • Word sequentialization

    In some ways, “data visualization” is a terrible term. It seems to reduce the construction of good charts to a mechanical procedure. It evokes the tools and methodology required to…

  • Tweaking the UI

    Who wrote this? … with enough money … I’ll tell you what I would do.  In the first place, I would change the general appearance of the site and make…