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Notes from the workshop — rescued codebases, numerical methods, tools I've found useful, the occasional post-mortem. Written when there's something worth writing down. No newsletter. RSS is the front door.
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Workflow
The harness is a specification
A nanoGPT optimization loop accepted a one-line patch that quietly disabled dropout. Whatever the harness doesn’t pin, the optimizer treats as up for grabs — and the catches keep landing at the friction point, not the artifact.
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Workflow
Three Days, 25 Experiments: Optimizing a Sketch Reconstruction Pipeline
Twenty-five experiments across three days with Claude Code and Gemini Deep Think optimizing a sketch reconstruction pipeline — and what the rejection pattern revealed about detection-selection architectures.
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ML
Building a Personality Model That Writes About Itself
Twenty years of email, forum posts, and chat logs become a personality model — and the recursive absurdity of using it to write about itself.
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Practice
How to Add an AI Support Agent to Your Website
Embedding a Recursive support agent on your website is as simple as pasting an iframe snippet. A step-by-step guide covering domain allowlisting, sizing, positioning, and troubleshooting.
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Product
How a YouTube Video Became a SaaS Product
How a YouTube video about AI resume assistants led to building Recursive, a platform that gives small businesses self-improving AI support agents.
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Practice
Running OpenClaw: Security, Automation & Maintenance
A practical guide to running OpenClaw: security monitoring, cron job configuration, agent behavior observations, and maintenance procedures. (Part 3 of the OpenClaw series.)
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ML
Local Models vs Cloud: A Tool-Calling Reality Check
Comparing local LLMs against cloud models for AI tool-calling in OpenClaw — testing Qwen, Gemma, Kimi, and Claude Haiku on complex tool schemas. (Part 2 of the OpenClaw series.)
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Practice
Setting Up OpenClaw in an Isolated VM
A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up the OpenClaw AI assistant in an isolated Multipass VM with Ollama integration and Discord bot configuration. (Part 1 of the OpenClaw series.)
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CAD
Announcing SketchBridge Alpha
The alpha release of SketchBridge, a desktop application for transferring 2D sketches between FreeCAD, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, and Inventor.