Tag: systems

All the articles with the tag "systems".

• Where Jobs Come From

  Published:Oct 25, 2026 |  at 04:17 PM

  Under 2% of American hiring creates anything. The rest is a seat changing hands, a rotation set by the last person to leave. What follows from that.

• Wrong on Purpose

  Published:Oct 24, 2026 |  at 04:35 PM

  Random strings find bugs no designer imagined. Why structureless input is the only honest question you can ask a system, four decades of evidence for it, and where noise stops working.

• The Idle Machine

  Published:Oct 24, 2026 |  at 02:22 AM

  Autoregressive decoding leaves almost all of an accelerator's arithmetic idle while it waits on memory bandwidth. Batching and speculative decoding fill that idle budget by the same mechanism, and the acceptance rate tells you what the mechanism is worth.