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George woke up. He felt it before his eyes opened. The grit of his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth, the feeling of that layer of grime on his teeth, he’d been drinking again last night. Now comes the headache. Still with his eyes closed he braces for that familiar constant bitter hum of disapproval from his brain, starved for water. The eyes open now, harsh bright light is too much…
I just had two really different feelings at the same time. I am working on a web app, and I’d say I’m doing quite a bit to make the whole app and team function. I’m committing tons of code, experimenting with different uses of AI, I’m doing planning with the product team, I’m meeting with managers, trying to distill information and pass down edicts to them with the…
Then what is the unit? Is there a basic “neuron” sized prompt? Andis that kinda what our neurons are? Context window, sure, but the unit might already be big enough, it’s now the composition (or the matrix 😎) of those neurons that matters. So you “right size” every input and output, weighting for truthyness (a good job to put a matrix of llms validating each other’s work [and those…
There’s no doubt that LLMs are great at coding - with the introduction of GPT what feels like a few years ago, and since then a furious pace of innovation, and that feels like it’s even futher doubled down at this moment for software development. LLMs went roughly from great autocomplete to chain of thought to agentic to recursive, to now swarm and orchestrated. It sure feels like…
Start the fun. First, start with a pun - these are the richest vessels for helping one escape the fact that naming things is hard, it’s going to be dumb anyways, so you might as well be as reductivist as possible, and go for the lowest barrier to entry to humour. This would be a great place for an example of something that I’ve got to name, but I can’t think of anything at the…
I went to post-secondary school twice, the first time I went to SAIT, from 2005 -2009, and I wasn’t a good student. I wasn’t committed to learning, some of the courses were too easy, and I skipped a lot, and that meant that I really struggled in the hard or interesting ones. The course I was in was highly interesting - Mechanical Design Technologist, and it’s unfortunate that I…
I wish I had a photo of the couch. In highschool, I opted to sleep on a loveseat couch that my parents graciously donated to my disaster of a bedroom. The couch was forest green with paisley patterns in yellow, but was that the underlying foam sticking out, or was it the pattern? who knew and who cared. It was my couch! At the time, my bedroom setup was amazing - it was my bachelor pad. I had dual…
Let’s just get something out. I’m committed to trying to maintain a blog, and that requires writing. It’s a lot, but it’s not - I was going to write some thing about the juxtaposition I find myself in, surrounded, spoiled with oppulence, but also searching for a product to sell Canadians that they’re going to love, find value in, and ultimately transform the…
When I was about 18, I was working with a guy named Darryl. We both worked for my cousin, he was the mechanic and foreman, I was just a helping hand. We were working after hours in the shop on our own vehicles, he on his motorbike that he was rebuilding (an old Honda, if I remember correctly), and I was working on my pride and joy. My 1981 Volvo.
I really just want to get this working first… I know the theme is a little ugly, and that this post will be useless, but I just want to get over the hump of getting the framework set up so that I can get onto making posts that might be interesting or useful.