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		<title>It is a sign &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was my last full day in Massachusetts after 30 years. I happened to be driving through Maynard, where I saw this sign leaning against a building on the sidewalk — an old Digital Equipment Corporation display advertising &#8220;Computer Based Word Processing Systems&#8221; featuring &#8220;LIST PROCESSING.&#8221; I had to stop and take a picture! The &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2026/05/19/it-is-a-sign/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "It is a sign&#160;&#8230;"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stylistic Forensics: Detecting AI Influence in Serial Publication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TL;DR Pranav Jain published 14 essays in the Times of India between June 2025 and May 2026. The first 12 are authentically human-written. The 13th shows AI scaffolding with human finishing. The 14th reads as almost entirely AI-generated. The transition is detectable through seven measurable axes: physical specificity, syntactic interruption, cultural embedding, structural formatting, conclusion &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2026/05/18/stylistic-forensics-detecting-ai-influence-in-serial-publication/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Stylistic Forensics: Detecting AI Influence in Serial&#160;Publication"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Software Agents: The management challenge</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2026/04/24/software-agents-the-management-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plenty has been written about Software Agents and the impact they&#8217;ll have on software developers. There&#8217;s the &#8220;it&#8217;ll kill jobs&#8221; and &#8220;software developers are doomed&#8221; crowd. There&#8217;s the people who talk about how non-developers will now start writing bespoke tools. There&#8217;s the people who talk about how Software Agents are a climate nightmare, and the &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2026/04/24/software-agents-the-management-challenge/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Software Agents: The management&#160;challenge"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The lazy agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with agentic software development tools and discovered something unsettling. My setup required full test suites to run at each phase exit. Unlike typical setups, this project needed Java and Maven. Multiple phases completed successfully. When a human review checkpoint arrived, I asked for test results. I got them — a polished report &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2026/04/18/the-lazy-agent/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The lazy agent"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Debugging in the age of AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FBAR &#8211; meet AI</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2026/03/28/fbar-meet-ai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you are one of those people who recognize the acronym FBAR from personal encounters with it, this blog post will fill your heart with joy. If you don&#8217;t know about FBAR, it is the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, a part of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) &#8211; specifically form 114. U.S. &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2026/03/28/fbar-meet-ai/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "FBAR &#8211; meet&#160;AI"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Optimizing k-NN search &#8211; Making Vector Search Faster with Batched Early Abort</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2026/02/14/optimizing-k-nn-search-making-vector-search-faster-with-batched-early-abort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TL;DR I&#8217;ve been working on optimizing k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search, and stumbled onto something interesting that I wanted to share. The Problem When you&#8217;re searching for the top-k most similar vectors in a large dataset, you end up performing a lot of distance calculations. In HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) graphs for example, you&#8217;re constantly &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2026/02/14/optimizing-k-nn-search-making-vector-search-faster-with-batched-early-abort/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Optimizing k-NN search &#8211; Making Vector Search Faster with Batched Early&#160;Abort"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript &#8211; Schneier on Security</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2026/01/07/substitution-cipher-based-on-the-voynich-manuscript-schneier-on-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a wonderful way to start the day. But, I made the mistake of reading it before I went to bed 🤦 Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript &#8211; Schneier on Security — Read on www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/substitution-cipher-based-on-the-voynich-manuscript.html]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do something different!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the expression &#8220;put yourself outside your comfort zone&#8221;. I think it is very important to do that regularly, in every aspect of your life &#8211; not just work. For a long time, all I did was take pictures of landscapes and it was a huge education to take pictures of people &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2026/01/02/do-something-different/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Do something different!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Your Emails Go to Spam (And How SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Can Save You)</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2025/10/19/why-your-emails-go-to-spam-and-how-spf-dkim-and-dmarc-can-save-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Legal Heir Certificate Game: A Points-Based Guide to Bureaucratic Survival in Tamil Nadu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The cremation is done. The ashes are dispersed. The ceremonial bath is done. Two weeks have gone by and the death certificate arrives in time with the 13th day rituals. The priest packs up his items, the relatives head home, and you think the hardest part is over. That&#8217;s when the real odyssey begins. While &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2025/09/30/the-legal-heir-certificate-game-a-points-based-guide-to-bureaucratic-survival-in-tamil-nadu/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The Legal Heir Certificate Game: A Points-Based Guide to Bureaucratic Survival in Tamil&#160;Nadu"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Correlation v. Causation</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2025/09/25/correlation-v-causation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a wonderful illustration of this surprisingly misunderstood concept. I love the very simple illustration, and when you think about it, it is pretty clear why there’s this correlation.]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI comes to LinkedIn spam</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2025/09/22/ai-comes-to-linkedin-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A simple change to my LinkedIn profile, and it became apparent that AI bots have been reading profiles and generating spam messages.]]></description>
		
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		<title>QR Codes: India’s Trojan Horse</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2025/09/20/qr-codes-indias-trojan-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[India shows what happens when a technology goes mainstream fast. QR codes made payments universal—but also made fraud universal. The Trojan horse never looked so square.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Animated GIFs</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2025/01/18/animated-gifs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wanted an animation with a simple counter like an odometer or hobbs meter for a presentation. Google wasn&#8217;t much help, and the few that I found were quite crappy. It is quite amazing what one can do with a little python and Pillow! In case you ever need to make one of these, you &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2025/01/18/animated-gifs/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Animated GIFs"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Joint presentations &#8211; Q&#038;A tips and tricks</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2023/07/20/joint-presentations-qa-tips-and-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many software engineers find presentations to be challenging. Standing up in front of a room and talking is scary. But with practice most people get by. Then there is the issue of joint presentations, and making smooth transitions. With rehearsal, many people are able to handle this as well. It is when practice and rehearsal &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2023/07/20/joint-presentations-qa-tips-and-tricks/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Joint presentations &#8211; Q&#38;A tips and&#160;tricks"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The little dramas</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2023/07/16/the-little-dramas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyday numerous little dramas play out in front of our eyes. We see them, but they don&#8217;t register. Until one day you suddenly realize that the drama has stopped, and then you realize it. This is one of those dramas. When I moved to my present house, I had two neighbors right across the street &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2023/07/16/the-little-dramas/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The little dramas"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The curious case of the Google Workspace &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2023/06/04/the-odd-case-of-the-google-workspace-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Part 1? Because I&#8217;m sure that there&#8217;s going to be more to come (although I know not what). I own several domains, some of which I use for email. On these domains, I have a catch-all setup (email to *@&#60;domain&#62;.com goes to a single mailbox). Recently I started seeing email indicating that someone was &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2023/06/04/the-odd-case-of-the-google-workspace-part-1/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The curious case of the Google Workspace &#8211; Part&#160;1"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The regenerative AI (r)evolution</title>
		<link>https://hypecycles.com/2023/04/29/the-regenerative-ai-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence has been advancing rapidly in recent years and has started to have a significant impact on various industries. Regenerative AI, a type of AI that has the ability to learn from data and generate new data, has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses operate. However, it is also expected to affect the &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2023/04/29/the-regenerative-ai-revolution/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The regenerative AI&#160;(r)evolution"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The international driving license</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 08:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, most people lived and died within a few kilometers of the spot where they were born. With advances in transport, and globalization, this is becoming less and less true. The old oral family history tradition has been considerably weakened. From time to time, I get to travel back to India and spend &#8230; <a href="https://hypecycles.com/2023/02/20/the-international-driving-license/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The international driving&#160;license"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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