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• Toward Solving Micro ShogiA 64 GB cloud solve of the K+P+G rung, a dense-rank rerun that cut memory 8.8x, and the current cost model for a complete Micro Shogi tablebase.Jun 12, 2026
• Toward Solving Shogi4 (4×4 Shogi)Recovered rules, a validated solver, a 2.1-billion-position closed subgame, and a costed full solve left unrun.Jun 8, 2026
• Solving Dōbutsu ShōgiDōbutsu shōgi, a children's shogi variant, is strongly solved: the second player wins in 78 plies. The results of the solve, and why one rule makes a tiny board so deep.Jun 4, 2026
• We Are the LLM's MemoryIndependent engineers are assembling the OS layer for LLM coding agents in public. Here's the mechanism, who's winning, and what happens in the next 12 months.May 7, 2026
• Chess960 Starting Positions Ranked By StockfishStockfish 18 rankings for all 960 Chess960/Fischer Random starting positions. Most balanced: SP-418 and SP-563; standard chess is near median.May 7, 2026
• Scaling Parallel Stockfish AnalysisHow a batch Stockfish pipeline moved from 4.00 positions/sec on one web server to 47-60 positions/sec on cloud CPU workers, with bounded cost, retryable failures, and recorded depth provenance.May 3, 2026
• The Market Is Many GamesMarkets are multiple games on one board. Before trying to beat the index, figure out which game you're equipped to play.Mar 28, 2026
• Synthesizing Stock IntelligenceThe Read and Alpha Engine tested whether AI-summarized market signals could improve a paper options book. The options made money, but the stock-selection signal did not prove it could beat indexing.Mar 9, 2026
• Building a Model Serving API From ScratchProduction model serving layer wrapping Ollama with request batching, SSE streaming, backpressure, Prometheus metrics, and structured experiments revealing how latency, TTFT, and throughput behave under load.Feb 22, 2026
• aideLocal AI developer-effectiveness tool. Ingests Claude Code and Codex session logs into SQLite, tracks cost and token behavior, diagnoses friction, and turns repeat findings into reviewed project memory.Feb 11, 2026