Oxide and Friends
People who build servers on hardware, firmware and systems engineering, down to chip models and the traps they hit
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Latest2026-09-03
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1:01:39Oxide and Friends
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AI detection isn't a style check — it looks for padded information
The tell in AI writing isn't style, it's ‘information padding’: output that carries more than the input did. A hedge-fund titan publicly owning his AI op-ed became the turning point — Pangram's fourth generation runs a false-positive rate of roughly 1 in 24,000, and models converging actually makes the writing easier to catch.
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AI detectioncontent authenticity
1:16:08Oxide and Friends
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Rack Radiation Over the Limit: Two Rounds of Debugging Failed, and the Fix Was Hiding at an Unrelated Conference
Radiation at 26.565GHz off the back of the rack came in over the limit. Two rounds of troubleshooting turned up nothing, and the fix finally came from a paper presented at an unrelated conference: add absorber material at the connector. This is not black magic, it is high-frequency physics.
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EMCHardware engineering