August 11, 2026
Adding watermark stripping to Humanizer I use the Humanizer skill pretty regularly. It's a portable agent skill that strips signs of AI-generated writing out of text, checking 33 patterns. Em dashes, the rule of three, "vibrant tapestry," the usual stuff. It works well for what it does. What it didn't do was handle watermarks. The EU AI Act starts being enforceable this month, and one of the requirements is that AI outputs have to be detectable as machine-produced. Which means the labs are going to start watermarking their output. I wanted to know whether the tool I use to make AI writing sound human could also handle the hidden signals that mark it as machine-produced in the first place. I forked Humanizer to my own repo and started reading up on how text watermarking actually works. Two sources, one conclusion I put two documents in the repo to work from. One was a blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing that text watermarks will always be trivial to remove . The other...
August 05, 2026
A few days ago I installed a Claude Code skill called llm-council . It's a nice adaptation of an Andrej Karpathy idea: instead of asking one AI a question and taking its word for it, you run the question past five advisors, have them peer-review each other anonymously, and let a chairman synthesize a verdict. It worked. I liked it. And then I noticed the thing that bothered me. Five advisors, one brain The skill spawns its five advisors as Claude sub-agents. Same model, same weights, same session. The only thing that varies between them is the prompt — one is told to play the Contrarian, another the Expansionist, and so on. Which means the disagreement is manufactured. The Contrarian objects because I told it to object, not because it sees something the others missed. And more importantly: whatever that model can't see, none of the five can see. You get one opinion wearing five costumes, and the peer-review round is a model grading four other outputs of itself. Karpat...
July 18, 2026
I spent some time the other day looking for writing skills on Github. The one I found first was Creative Writing Skills , which is actually far more. First off, I had Claude read through it. Claude created a folder named " untitled-story ", which you can download here if you are interested. You can use it with Claude Cowork(which is what I will do here and what Jimmy recommends). But if you prefer a different agent, just point it at the folder and turn it loose. One (optional) addition I made today was adding a folder full of Jason Hamilton 's genre guides - in this example, the alpha male romance. You can also add some of your own work into the draft folder but in this case, I was starting at the very beginning. Since I didn't have a story ready, I had Claude generate 10 Log Lines. I chose this one and added it to the folder. < Snowbound Sovereign — Fleeing a corrupt sheriff, a small-town waitress crashes her car outside a mou...
November 24, 2014
So in getting the Nexus 6 , I also wanted to change away from Verizon. Not because the services was terrible - it actually worked pretty well - but it was kind of expensive and CDMA and just not what I was looking for these days. After doing some research, I decided I really wanted to go with the $30 plan (100 min/unlimited text+data) from T-Mobile. I had heard good things about it - even from the Verge's Nilay Patel , who you would think would be somewhat picky. But I still hesitated ordering from Wal-mart.com . So Thursday afternoon after the phone arrived, I made a trip out to the store. I wasn't even sure exactly what I was looking for but in the Electronics section there was a whole display of various cell-phone related items - including some rectangular boxes that sounded like they were exactly what I wanted. The only immediate problem is that they are locked in so I hard to turn to the counter for assistance. There was one Associate behind the counter - waiting on som...
December 13, 2011
So my Blogger Profile is now my Google+ Profile which used to be my Google Profile but isn't anymore sortof kinda. It seems simple enough.
October 18, 2011
I haven't posted here in a while but I wanted to see how Dynamic Views worked. Pretty Slick so far. The new backend is nice as well. The old one worked pretty well for a long time but was really looking dated.
February 02, 2010
I just got an e-mail from Blogger about the upcoming change to ftp access . So I did some switching around and this blog is now back at the original location. And maybe I will increase the post frequency here to less than 5 years between posts. Let us hope.