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Consensus Board Game
https://matklad.github.io/2026/03/19/consensus-board-game.html
I have an early adulthood trauma from struggling to understand consensus amidst a myriad of poor explanations. I am overcompensating for that by adding my own attempts to the fray. Today, I want to draw a series of pictures which could be helpful. You can see this post as a set of missing illustrations for Notes on Paxos, or, alternatively, you can view that post as a more formal narrative counter-part for the present one.
Conway's Game of Life, in real life
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/conways-game-of-life-in-real-life
Rep. Goldman Unveils File About Trump/Epstein Relationship [video]
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
How much of HN is AI?
I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog. At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making it a dependable source of insults hurled in my general direction; if you want a taste,
Querying 3B Vectors
https://vickiboykis.com/2026/02/21/querying-3-billion-vectors/
Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems
Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
The GDB JIT Interface
