The Best Way to Read a Book (That Nobody’s Doing) A video where Jeremy Howard explains his close reading workflow with Solveit. The core idea: “load a lot of relevant context first, then read chapter-by-chapter while chatting with an AI, carrying context forward each time”. It feels close to what I’ve been doing with gptel for papers/books, but the explicit chapter-level context handoff was new to me. (Related) Past post: A refined Emacs LLM setup
I haven’t been updating my blog for a while, so I’m restarting with a lightweight weekly memo: things I read/watched this week that I enjoyed. Onoguchi Snow Dome A collector’s site showcasing their snow globe collection with photos. The early-Heisei-web vibe is oddly charming. The security paradox of local LLMs - Quesma Blog (HN) Local LLMs feel “more secure” than cloud LLMs at first glance, but it’s not that simple. The example attack prompts are fun to read (especially Attack #2). Love Generation filming locations (map) A fan-made location guide for a classic 90s drama I got hooked on again via Netflix. Kimura Takuya is way too cool.
As shown under another article, I’m using uvx to run some mcp servers needed by mcp.el. However, when I first started them on NixOS, I encountered an error. After consulting Gemini for solutions and a root cause analysis, here are my notes. Symptoms and Error Message Checking the *Mcp-Hub/ buffer with mcp-hub-view-log, the following error appeared: [stderr] Could not start dynamically linked executable: /home/bk/.cache/uv/archive-v0/unI5q9QapqXHm9fPXna4G/bin/python [stderr] NixOS cannot run dynamically linked executables intended for generic [stderr] linux environments out of the box. For more information, see: [stderr] https://nix.dev/permalink/stub-ld [jsonrpc] D[14:56:49.461] Connection state change: `exited abnormally with code 127 Solution: Enable nix-ld Adding the following to your nix configuration resolved the issue for me: ...
Introduction The integration of large language models (LLMs) into Emacs has rapidly evolved over the past few years. My first encounter with an LLM inside Emacs was in November 2022, through AI-powered code completion with copilot.el. I still vividly remember how impressed I was at that moment. Shortly after, ChatGPT was launched, and tools like ChatGPT.el made it possible to interact with AI within Emacs—though, at that time, the features were few, and I didn’t really feel the advantages of using LLMs in Emacs. ...