Only Partially Observable

Tag: anvil-app

  • Generated Knowledge Prompting (GENKNOW)

    LLMs are powerful, but they sometimes fail in embarrassingly simple ways — especially when commonsense reasoning is involved.Example: Q: Part of golf is trying to get a higher point total than others. Yes or No?A: Yes. That’s wrong. The goal of golf is to minimize strokes, not rack up points.This isn’t a “math” problem. It’s…

  • Incident 4413: Phase-Lock Detection Protocol

    Filed: YYYY-MM-DD Classification: Internal — Eyes OnlySummary: Subject is experiencing repeated behavioral mirroring in workplace environment. Suspected cases of wardrobe sync, phrasing replication, and workflow appropriation (“shadow forks”).Objective: Deploy passive monitoring script to detect high-fidelity echoes and identify responsible actors. Preface Every breach starts with a log.Most logs are about systems.This one happens to wear…

  • Incident 5120: The MirrorBot Reaches the Breaking Point

    Chapter IV: The Breaking Point One day, you push a commit that’s intentionally weird.An inverted color scheme.A function named why_would_you_do_this().A README written in Finnish, with inline death metal lyrics. Two hours later, their branch looks exactly the same. The synchronization is now total.Two forks, same commit hash — except one thinks it’s the origin/main. Final…

  • The Proxy Ping — An Experiment in Indirectness

    Field Notes From a Leaky Network Didn’t come to me.Never does. It routed the packet through someone else —like it was avoiding a firewall.TTL dropped each hop,but the payload stayed intact: “So… what are you working on?” I could see the trace.NAT’d through a friend-of-a-friend,headers scrubbed,origin masked. I told them my NDA was with my…

  • Why Your Browser’s Spinning Wheel Is a Cry for Help

    You open your laptop.You type: www.reliableportal.io.You press Enter. And then… Nothing.Just a tab spinning like it’s waiting for someone to pick up the phone. 🕸️ The Invisible Conversation: Client ↔ Server When you hit Enter in your browser, you’re not “opening a website.”You’re initiating a structured ritual — a precise exchange between: This isn’t magic.…

  • The Broadcast Storm That Ate Tuesday

    It started with a Zoom call that jittered like a haunted VHS tape.Then the phones cut out.Then the devs’ terminals stalled mid-keystroke. By 11:08 AM, the network was choking on its own noise. Unpacking the Chaos: IPv4 Addressing in Action In IPv4 networks, every data packet has a destination — but not all packets are…