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Without Network There was a time when the Internet seemed indestructible. Decentralized. Free. Independent of any single authority. Today, it's clear that reality is more complicated.

Libertarianism Libertarianism or why the stationary bandit is starting to die. There is one very uncomfortable thought. The state was never necessary. It was technically inevitable.

Warm Tube WWW The Internet of the 2000s was warm. The 2000s were a strange time.

Home server system My home system separates services into distinct roles with restricted network access. Some machines serve only the local network; others have controlled external connections or exchange events through specific endpoints. The...

Arbitrage is life I use “arbitrage” broadly here. Statistical trades, liquidation strategies and forecasts based on Mark Price can lose money even when implemented correctly. Mark Price is a reference value rather than an executable quote; knowing its formula does not guarantee an earlier or profitable trade. A price gap becomes an arbitrage opportunity only if the relevant legs can actually be executed and settled after fees, financing and transfer costs. Capital controls or sanctions can prevent that execution entirely. Small market size…

LLM about dimabagow It is interesting to read how AI sees me; this is much more interactive than in the pre-AI era. Previously, you could simply look at the search results for your own name; now you can get an entire history, and that is despite the fact that I am far from being a public figure: Dossier: dimabagow / Dima Bagow 1. Who is this The public footprint quite unambiguously points to a person using the name Dima Bagow / Dmitry Bagow…

Eat Synthetic! Many people envision synthetic food as a bland grey slop from sci-fi movies. In reality, everything could turn out exactly the opposite.

Large Language Models Modern LLMs do not think in words. They work with vectors, probability distributions, and matrices of weights.

Quantum Superposition Quantum superposition is one of those things that sound like esoteric nonsense after a third bottle of cognac. It is a basic feature of quantum physics, which underlies semiconductors, lasers and MRI. GPS also uses atomic...

See An incredible TV series, I haven't seen anything like

Qubits and Blockchain Every time news comes out about Google, IBM or some new superconducting qubit, experts start crawling out claiming: Bitcoin is dead.

Net Homeless I first got on the Internet back in 1997. It was a completely different place.

Stargate A series with a wonderful warm atmosphere, against which various scientific hypotheses are artistically played out.

Compound Interest Calculator Calculate compound interest with regular contributions and see the balance for each period.

House != Apartment Reflections on independence, living in a private house vs an apartment.

Warcraft II Reflections on design, nostalgic emotions, and why Warcraft II remains a classic.