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Installing a Mini-Split AC in a Brooklyn Apartment
Last year, 2024, we replaced four PTACs with a mini-split AC. I’ve been asked about it often enough (by neighbors, coworkers, friends) that I decided to write up the experience. Hopefully it’s useful...
View ArticleAvalanche Studios NYC Retrospective – An Ambitious Company Ruined by Bad...
I’ve wanted to write about this since the studio closed a year ago. Now that Contraband is also canceled I think it’s time, especially since Contraband was one of the big reasons why I left the...
View ArticleHow to Adjust Your Kids Sleep Schedule for Daylight Savings in 15 Minute...
Daylight savings just ended so this post is coming exactly too late. But I was talking to a friend about how we just adjust 15 minutes per day, which is quite easy. She was saying “oh I wish I had...
View ArticleHow LLMs Keep on Getting Better
If you look at the source code of a modern open source LLM, it looks very similar to the transformer described in the “Attention is all you need” paper from 2017. It’s just a stack of exactly three...
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How Programmers Spend Their Time
I submitted a tiny patch to flash attention. The necessary typing for the change takes less ten seconds, but the overall change took more than ten hours So where does the time go? It started when...
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Word Map – A Game About Hill Climbing and Stepping Stones
I really like Semantle because I noticed that progress is similar to the description in Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth Stanley. The objective function is very...
View ArticleI’m Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks’ Culture
The US has been acting powerful recently and it reminded me of this question: What does it feel like to fight against a powerful AI? Not for normal people for whom there’s no difference between...
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President Graph – FRED Data Broken Down by Party and President
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...
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Apple is Holding my Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service
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...
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Book Review: Babel by R.F. Kuang
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...
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