Essays
Capitalism is an economic system that largely dictates the structure of a society built around it. If a society is "ideas we share" + "how we interact", Capitalism provides the basis/medium/infrastructure for how a capitalistic society interacts. Capitalism is abuse. Consider an individual - a
personal essay
Pre-reading is a useful activity before attending a lecture to make sure you get the most out of the delivered content. Doing some pre-reading lay out some foundations for the subject matter at hand and helps you connect the concepts introduces in the lecture more quickly and more deeply. What
personal essay
Follow up on "2023: Reflections and Looking Forward". This is the year I became a reader, writer, poet, and meditator on love. I took an ~6 month break from personal programing projects. 2024 was about the same as 2023, earning it a tie for "best year of
Programming
FROM python:3.12-slim-bookworm COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/ # Copy the project into the image ADD . /app # Sync the project into a new environment, using the frozen lockfile WORKDIR /app RUN uv sync --frozen RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl RUN curl
Essays
Knowledge is having a simple representation for complex data. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Knowledge is having a lot of data to work with in the first place. Sometimes, knowledge is only knowledge within a specific domain.
Writing
I hate ephemerality. I hate the mutability of life's structures. The shifting of connections through some agnostic evolutionary process - human and non-human. A person should remain their caricature. A person should find a community that suits them, knowing that this bond is a life-knot. Two people should
thoughts
Large Language Models (LLMs) are great when their needs are met: Need 1. Can consistently get relevant, well-formatted context for their inference Need 2. Can consistently output text w.r.t. an input schema Need 3. Are offered a sandboxed code execution environment Need 4. Are subject to human review;
Writing
He's so perfect! So why don't you text him? Well he doesn't text me! But he does, right? He texted you just as we sat down. He doesn't text me enough! I want him to want me! You know? No, I don&
thoughts
The singular goal of government, implicit until now, is to design and protect a structure where there is no distinction between the rational and the hyper-rational. Definitions * Rational Action: A single agent's action that optimizes that agent's utility function under some policy. * Hyper-Rational Action: A single
Writing
I've answered too many questions about vocation - far too many about the heart and past relationships. Questions that, by all my considerations, were the least interesting and the most unoriginal questions I’ve ever encountered. These questions - in their roteness, their dullness, their pathetic attempts at
Essays
255 (0b11111111) days ago, I wrote my most personally significant blog post to date: 2000 Days In 2000 Days, I reflect on important values in my life and conclude that I am defined by one central theme: control. This may only be partially true. Control, as a virtue, addresses my
reading
Philip K. Dick isn't the most literary writer, but the ideas he presents in this novel are engaging and I am sure that they were ahead of his time. Present day, with all the thoughts and worries involving large language models, an android filled future may not be