Natural general intelligence. Some kind of artist. Co-Founder and CTO at ThinkNimble.
Originally published on research.thinknimble.com . This post explores how GenAI fundamentally changes software design by creating massive, explorable state spaces. People keep saying the paradigm shift with GenAI is about determinism versus nondeterminism, and I’ll admit that it bothers me. I think they’re pointing at the right thing but using the wrong words. The real difference is the sheer size…
Originally published on research.thinknimble.com . This framework helps founders and product teams sequence AI integration decisions from simple to complex. An Inspiration My mom came from a family of sharecroppers in Southern Maryland. She grew up in a tiny house with seven siblings who all spent long, hot summers working in tobacco fields. Harvesting tobacco is backbreaking labor: you bend all…
This is a quick reaction to: ai-2027.com , which forecasts a very rapid timeline for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). I’d say the likelihood of a “fast takeoff” scenario like this has greatly increased since ChatGPT. The big breakthrough of the past decade is that scaling up the neural net also scales up intelligence. The AI 2027 scenario is based on…
I’ve always been a bit of a data hoarder. Ever since I heard of Kiwix - a tool for “downloading the internet” - I’ve been meaning to try it out. If you want to skip the explanation, here is my code on GitHub: github.com/whusterj/kiwix-torrent-watcher How it Works With Kiwix, you first download entire sites like Wikipedia as a ZIM file. Kiwix is the software you use to browse these files offline.…
I’ve been a licensed ham radio operator for five years now, so I thought I’d reflect on my progress and how I am doing ham radio today in 2024. Microelectronics Were the Gateway My path to ham radio began in 2017. I was working on some Arduino projects. That turned out to be my “gateway drug”. At the time, I wanted build and deploy some low power wireless sensors in my apartment. We had a loft…
War Room is a board game by Larry Harris, the designer of Axis and Allies. I see it as at least a spiritual successor to AA, if not a complete overhaul. Like AA, it’s a grand strategy game set during World War II. Players control the major Axis and Allied powers and vie for the control of territories. The ultimate goals is to capture the opposing capitals and win the war. You can see my original…
They analyzed his blood and found a speck. He didn’t need to know - yet. He still had several years before it would become an issue. Several productive years at a good income. The data was all there. Let him sow and later we’ll reap. That will all be harvested. It’s a simple calculation. Let him continue to be motivated and untroubled by health. Earning until the disease really takes hold. Then we…
Our Creative Director asked me if I could estimate the number of production releases we have pushed so we could bost about it on our website . I quickly figured out a strategy that would work using just the heroku apps and heroku releases commands, but realized I would need to draft a script to iterate and parse the outputs. I also knew it would be best to do this in bash to make use of those…
I love lists. So here’s a list albums, one for each year of my life. This exercise was inspired by a blog post by the CTO of Amazon, Dr. Werner Vogels . The rules are simple, Select “a favorite album for every year of your life”. The challenge had two restrictions: Only one album per year No repeat artists I’m probably profiling myself pretty heavily by sharing this list, but who cares! I won’t go…
Update, 2026: This post describes the original v0.0.1 setup. I’ve since overhauled the repo to handle long multi-speaker recordings using WhisperX with chunked diarization — see the updated repo and the new blog post (coming soon). Big video handlers like YouTube and even Slack use AI to automatically caption videos that you upload. This is a great win for accessibility, and the AI is extremely…