AI and the Spreadsheet
The reigning style of writing about contemporary AI is to treat it as historically unprecedented — a thing without …
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Cape Cod
The California Ranch of the previous post described the Western half of the post-war American suburb — the one-storey …
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English Chippendale
The three prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Biedermeier — described one diagonal across the eighteenth- …
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2026-05-17
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Bakshaish
The first three rug posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, and Caucasian Kazak — established the two axes along which the …
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The Three-Year Lab
The frontier AI lab that existed as xAI for three years — founded in July 2023, building the largest single-site GPU …
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California Ranch
The Spanish Colonial Revival of the previous post described the inter-war Western suburb at its upper-middle commission …
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The Year of the Eval
A field that cannot measure itself does not, in any meaningful sense, know whether it is progressing. The …
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2026-05-16
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Biedermeier
The two prior posts in this arc — Louis XV and Louis XVI — described the principal axis of eighteenth-century French …
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Caucasian Kazak
The first two rug posts in this arc — Heriz and Tabriz — described the principal axis of Persian weaving: workshop …
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Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — white stucco walls, a low-pitched roof of red clay …
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- AI
AI and the Spreadsheet
The reigning style of writing about contemporary AI is to treat it as historically unprecedented — a thing without antecedents, requiring fresh categories, …
- ARCHITECTURE
Cape Cod
The California Ranch of the previous post described the Western half of the post-war American suburb — the one-storey horizontal Mediterranean-descended sprawl …
- ANTIQUES
English Chippendale
The three prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Biedermeier — described one diagonal across the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century European …
- AI
The Three-Year Lab
The frontier AI lab that existed as xAI for three years — founded in July 2023, building the largest single-site GPU cluster in Memphis Tennessee through 2024 …
- ARCHITECTURE
California Ranch
The Spanish Colonial Revival of the previous post described the inter-war Western suburb at its upper-middle commission — the architect-designed houses of …
- AI
The Year of the Eval
A field that cannot measure itself does not, in any meaningful sense, know whether it is progressing. The artificial-intelligence community’s principal …
- ANTIQUES
Biedermeier
The two prior posts in this arc — Louis XV and Louis XVI — described the principal axis of eighteenth-century French royal furniture: the move from rocaille …
- ANTIQUES
Caucasian Kazak
The first two rug posts in this arc — Heriz and Tabriz — described the principal axis of Persian weaving: workshop versus village, curvilinear versus geometric, …
- ARCHITECTURE
Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — white stucco walls, a low-pitched roof of red clay tile, round-arched windows in rhythmic …
| Date | Category | Title | Words | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | ai | AI and the Spreadsheet | 3073 | 15 min |
| 2026-05-18 | architecture | Cape Cod | 3936 | 19 min |
| 2026-05-17 | antiques | English Chippendale | 2535 | 12 min |
| 2026-05-17 | antiques | Bakshaish | 2691 | 13 min |
| 2026-05-17 | ai | The Three-Year Lab | 2646 | 13 min |
| 2026-05-17 | architecture | California Ranch | 3312 | 16 min |
| 2026-05-16 | ai | The Year of the Eval | 3354 | 16 min |
| 2026-05-16 | antiques | Biedermeier | 4517 | 22 min |
| 2026-05-16 | antiques | Caucasian Kazak | 4616 | 22 min |
| 2026-05-16 | architecture | Spanish Colonial Revival | 5171 | 25 min |