Probably Dance

I’m not good at prioritizing tasks, but there is one rule I follow and that I can justify very well: If something worked yesterday and is broken today, I will drop whatever I’m doing and fix that thing. No matter how small and seemingly unimportant the broken feature is. To justify this I will quote […]

Eight months ago I was producing roughly 90% human written code and 10% AI written code. This has switched surprisingly rapidly and now my code is probably 90% AI. So what do I do all day? I’ll go through a change that I made to a matrix-multiply kernel, for which I’ll sadly have to be […]

The book Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution is fascinating. And I’m not sure how much of this the author intended. It’s mainly fascinating because it’s trying to discuss colonialism, technological progress, and inequality with characters who are all stuck in the 19th century and are unable […]

It started off a few months ago, when my iPad suddenly couldn’t play videos any more that it had recorded. It would show the first frame, but hitting the play button wouldn’t do anything. I googled around but couldn’t find anything. I had recently installed an update, so I figured I’ll just wait for the […]

I made a website to explore FRED data broken down by US president and party. This is obviously motivated by the current president. During the last election I was frustrated by how many nonsense arguments there were being made. Like people voting for republicans because they were hoping for a good economy. This seemed exactly […]