Notes By Lex Toumbourou

A digital garden about AI, software, learning, and other assorted topics.

Welcome. I'm Lex Toumbourou - a machine learning engineer and software developer based in Brisbane, Australia, currently a Senior MLE at Canva. These are my working notes that I've been collecting over the last decade+ using the Zettelkasten method.

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  1. Jul 22, 2026 news OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident - July 21, 2026
  2. Jul 15, 2026 essay 6 Months of OpenClaw
  3. Jul 5, 2026 essay Completing A Computer Science Degree On Coursera
  4. May 23, 2026 story Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda
  5. May 17, 2026 paper Heavy Thinking: A Test-Time Scaling Pattern for Hard Problems
  6. May 9, 2026 paper LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
  7. May 7, 2026 essay AI-Induced Cognitive Atrophy
  8. Apr 29, 2026 paper OpenGame: Open Agentic Coding for Games
  9. Apr 25, 2026 essay Naming Things Is Easy Now
  10. Apr 21, 2026 project Obsidian Markdown Notebook: code execution with outputs stored in the file
  11. Mar 22, 2026 note Research, Plan, Implement Workflow
  12. Feb 26, 2026 paper Self-Generated Agent Context Files Don't Help Either