A place where I put thoughts on books, learnings, and tech.
What if information is not just data we collect and store but something that exerts force on the world? Claude Shannon gave us a way to think about this in 1948 when he published A Mathematical Theory of Communication. It later became the foundation of information theory. Shannon was trying to solve a very practical problem about how to transmit messages efficiently over noisy channels, but what…
The primary friction preventing widespread enterprise adoption of LLMs is vanity. I find it ironic that the profession closest to the machine is the one most comfortable with this truth, AI researchers. They see their own work get automated. Literature reviews, hyperparameter tuning, even parts of architecture search. They watch it happen to their colleagues and themselves. No one pretends these…
Learn how to scrape Bearblogs using BeautifulSoup and analyze sentiment with VADER in Python.
Teammates share a common goal or mission with each other. Expectations of the team become the means for an individual to achieve goals. This shared accountability for the self and group is what drives progress for both parties (assuming incentives are in order). Difficulty arises in finding the blend of group and self. Each team is different. Each team has its obstacles. Most teams don't last…
Buy here Disclaimer: I still need to read his recent book on SBF, Going Infinite. Weird time for Michael Lewis. This is a captivating story of the high-frequency trading (HFT) industry, written in Lewis's signature narrative style. He has an incredible ability to dissect complex financial topics for the layperson (if you've seen The Big Short you know this well). Sharp wit, vivid anecdotes, and a…
A book review on American Default by Sebastian Edwards
A review of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
Buy here Patrick O'Shaughnessy asked for a 'radical' book recommendation the other day, and this immediately came to mind. Norman does a great job using archives of journals, contracts, and prescriptions among other documents to illustrate the neurochemistry of Nazi Germany. It does not try to point to the consumption of drugs as the sole reason for why things happened the way they did, but rather…
A symbiotic relationship between hardware and software.
The OSI model allows you to visualize how systems like the internet work. This has served as a catalyst for my interest in infosec with each layer offering new worlds of knowledge.