A collection of my ideas on tech, policy, travel, and life. Washington DC, USA
Within a week of this post, millions of Americans will be introduced to AI technologies for the first time via big-budget Super Bowl advertisements. Millions of people who vote and participate in the economy will be forced to reckon with the fact that powerful AI systems are here and
Like many millennials, my formal education was timed at the peak of the replication crisis. So I built a pipeline that systematically evaluates bestsellers against critiques and replication literature.
This is art of a presentation I gave to my company on January 2nd, 2025. “ What LLM should I use? ” is more nuanced than it used to be. For coding or general technical tasks, I currently observe: OpenAI o1/o1 Pro is the best single-turn model, but
This game will appeal to anyone interested in prediction markets, poker, random trivia, and more. It can be played anywhere, from Super Bowl parties to relaxed nights at the local pub or during long road trips - no equipment necessary. I've played this game since ~2017 but can'
The Acela Corridor is the wealthiest metropolitan region in the history of the world. Amtrak’s flagship line traverses 457 miles across the region and is a major artery for business travelers. However, this pivotal transport link grapples with a persistent issue: unreliable Wi-Fi connectivity.
In this guide, I will share the standard architecture for data-informed language model applications and explain forthcoming improvements in knowledge retrieval.
I hope this semi-categorized list of links is a useful starting point for your exploration into the exciting advancements in AI!
Synthesized images, video, text, and audio will become the defining mode of conveying the utopias we dream of and the dystopias we fear. If you can describe a vision for the future, you can generate convincing & vivid multimodal portrayals.
The folks over at Stability.ai released their text-to-image model into beta testing yesterday. Overall, I am extremely impressed! I look forward to following along and participating in the great community they're building over there. Compared to DALLE-2 and Midjourney, the two most advanced competing
I've been experimenting with AI-generated art for about 8 months now. I am consistently blown away by the pace of progress in the field and the creativity and ingenuity of the community. For your viewing pleasure, here is a set of images I've generated in
I put together this post for the purpose of sharing interesting resources with friends and colleagues who want to learn more about advancements in the AI space. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead a branching out point for folks noticing advances at OpenAI, DeepMind, and open
This is a repost of my feature on the Silectis blog . With our Magpie platform ,  you can build a trusted data lake in the cloud as the shared foundation  for analytics in your organization. Magpie brings together the tools data engineers and data scientists need to integrate data,
Understanding how to solve the gaps and islands problem is critical for advanced SQL practitioners. In this post, we explore advanced techniques that can help you generate new insights and transform existing data into useful models.
In this post, we demonstrate how you can leverage Apache Airflow to augment the capabilities of the Magpie platform and unlock new ways of managing data pipelines.
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly I love Bourdain's writing style. Even if you're not familiar with his TV series or an aspiring foodie,  you'll enjoy this book for its vivid, conversational style reminiscent of a rowdy dinner party. Human Nature I&