I was having a conversation with friends this weekend about inference as a core property of intelligent systems. In the context of machine learning, inference is the moment a trained model is put to work and when it applies known patterns against new data to predict some output. But, inference, a more personal one as [ ]
I ve been reading Tolkien to our seven-year-old on and off this year. We re already through The Hobbit (and the first two movies) and we ve started reading The Fellowship of the Ring. We ve been reading these books at night at home, which just happens to be a Craftsman house. These homes are sometimes referred to as [ ]
There was a moment in the room where someone said, “Any final words to say? You can each just say one word that comes to mind.” Silence filled the room until someone finally piped up: “Well, he was always the man with the words.” After a long pause, all I could add was, “Thank you, [ ]
A few reads from the weekend. Where did all the affordable cars go? What started in 1964 as a retaliatory strike against European duties on American poultry grew over time into an impenetrable shield to safeguard domestic automakers’ sales of light trucks and United Auto Workers’ jobs from a rising tide of foreign imports. Both [ ]
Maybe it s just me, but I move around so much all day at the office that I often find myself with low single-digit battery levels on my Macbook daily. Things slow to a painful crawl. Maybe all these AI tools I have running are big drains on the battery. (Or maybe I just need a [ ]
I ve been wanting to pull together all my lists favorite places from different sources: mainly, foursquare going back years and, more recently, items in Google Maps. So I built an aggregated place for all of them. The site has built-in search and is mobile-friendly (you know, for when you need to look up one [ ]
ClawCon in LA was a pleasant surprise! I only realized yesterday around 3 PM that it was happening, and I m glad I caught it. It was inspiring to see the vibrant community that @msg and the team have put together in such a short time. A few highlights: I ran into four or five friends, [ ]
I found that I had a few hundred saved links in my Chrome reading list, so I vibe-coded a quick way to export the links so that I could crawl each one, sort them and actually figure out which ones to read. I also use multiple Chrome profiles (personal, family, work, investments), so the script [ ]
I loved this recent post by @ashleymayer on how we need better stories about the future in tech – and small companies should be the ones to step up to tell them. Just because capital is concentrated in a few of the biggest startups (nearly all AI companies) doesn t mean they get to be the [ ]
There s a specific feeling I remember from the early days of the internet — maybe 1993, 1994, somewhere in there. It was shortly after we moved to the US and bought our first computer. People were making things and trying things online just because: ASCII art. Chat bots. Personal homepages about, well, whatever, because you [ ]