Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations were marked in the...
The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents.
Ever noticed you're getting way more typos on iPhone lately? You're not going crazy - it's iOS.
I started working at Makeswift in October. Makeswift is a visual builder that integrates with Next.js. You can do lots of work visually then build custom React components to take it to the next level. Makeswift and Contentful Workshop - https://github.com/jam…
ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.
Last week, I started working on a new side-project. It’s a standard React app partly made up of run-of-the-mill CRUD views—a perfect fit for LLM-assisted programming. I reasoned that if I could get an LLM to quickly write the boring code for me, I’d have more …
When I asked ChatGPT what it remembered about me, it listed 33 facts from my name and career goals to my current fitness routine. But how does it actually store and retrieve this information? And why does it feel so seamless? After extensive experimentation, I…
How I used Aiven's free Kafka tier to monitor my smart bird feeder in real-time
SIM cards are a marvel of software engineering
I feel deep resentment whenever I read or hear someone saying that life is only meaningful because we are mortal. It is probably the most profound thought I disagree with.
From gaming magazine CDs to dependency graphs
It's the holiday season. My kids are doing all sorts of projects at school, this means we are doing a whole lot of printing. So I went online to look for the ink cartridge for our printer. I typed the printer name and model because who knows the ink cartridge …
Experiments and musings
Explore how Contrastive Decoding uncovers hidden information in LLMs and highlights suppression techniques with practical applications.
If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skeptical. This blog post is for those who want to think more ca…
On sharing more of yourself.
Through market forces, embeddings became the singular framework we understood RAG. It’s the wrong lens to think about the problem
After many years of railing against going on X, I’m finally pulling the band-aid and getting on the platform.
Learning when the compiler decides to unroll loops for performance
A couple of days ago, I stumbled over a Mastodon post by @johl, in which he shared vimwiki as his approach for taking notes in vim. Which immediately piqued my interest, as I have so far been just taking my notes in plain vim without a way of linking them....
A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect.