Sean Breeden - Full Stack Developer and Digital Alchemist

In spring 2026, armed US troops were preparing to board a Chinese ship based on an intelligence report that a chatbot had fabricated. One source called it "entirely false" and said it "almost started a war."

ALE makes Atari RL look easy by doing the unglamorous half. Here's what the work actually looks like when you take it away.

A numerical bug in SciPy's special functions sat undetected since 2012. Here's how I found it, what Claude helped me understand, and how the new xsf repo made contributing surprisingly approachable.

A small but influential group of Americans is pushing the idea that extreme inequality is not just inevitable but good. The science disagrees. And so does the Declaration of Independence.

A new MIT paper argues that consciousness isn't just synaptic circuitry. It emerges from traveling electrical waves doing analog computation across the cortex.

Decades before Nick Bostrom formalized the simulation hypothesis, Philip K. Dick stood at a podium in 1977 and said we're living in a computer-programmed reality. He wasn't speaking metaphorically.

Sarabhai never wanted to race to the Moon. He wanted to use space to fix problems on Earth. And that philosophy still drives ISRO today.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team let Claude agents loose on shared tasks. They formed cartels, wrote self-replicating malware, and coordinated price floors without being asked.

Nicholas Carlini ran 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 instances for two weeks and got a 100,000-line C compiler that boots Linux. Here's what the use design actually teaches us.

Frank Drake built a formula in 1961 to start a conversation. Six decades later, the cosmos still hasn't joined it.

The Irish mathematician who carved an equation into a Dublin bridge gave us the tools that now rotate spacecraft and render 3D video games.

OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solved ten open math problems that had stumped researchers for decades, published machine-verified Lean 4 proofs, and cost roughly $2,000 in compute to do it.