The recent release of DeepSeek-R1 made a pretty big splash, breaking into the mainstream news cycle in a way that the steady model releases we’ve had for a couple years now did not do. The main focuses of these stories were that 1. it was cheap and 2. it was chinese, forcing the market to […]
(This was originally written as an assignment for my masters studies, I thought it might be interesting, read at your own risk etc.) Are we offsetting or accelerating the green transition? Prices for green energy are coming down [1] and given an assumption that this trend will continue, the price of reliable green energy may […]
I spent a few years designing and partially building a library used for the validation of front office models at a financial institution, and I thought it might be a good idea to write down what I learned during that time. It was my first ever big project and happened to some degree by accident, […]
I was talking recently to a friend about a video essayist I like, (Dan Olson of Folding Ideas) and when asked why I thought he was any good I pondered it for a moment and said “he has a lot of respect for complexity”. On reflection, I think that is one of the virtues I […]
We often talk about rewriting code and almost as often talk about whether big rewrites are even a good idea. Joel Spolsky writes a particularly harrowing story of how netscape rewrote their entire codebase and in so doing perhaps doomed their chances of recovery. In summary, here are some key things you need to keep […]
Using more abstract ideas like who is suitable for a role forces the model to consider a vast range of things, I think there is value in a test like that.
(This was originally written as an assignment for my masters studies, I thought it might be interesting, read at your own risk etc.) A lot has been written about the history of artificial intelligence and so there won’t be much new things I can add. In general I find it hard to write summaries of […]
Can I use an LLM on large amounts of conversational-ish data and rank peoples suitability for a role?
“How do we fix what?” *Gestures broadly at everything* “Oh. That.” Ok, I wont actually be trying to solve every problem ever. But I want to talk about a very simple and very fundamental one (the best kind) and give an equally simple “gesture” towards a solution. It’s an idea I haven’t been able to […]
or Why Outer Wilds is the Greatest Game Ever Made Player agency is a tricky problem. Games have always had an advantage over other media since the viewer is able to take part in the story in a way not possible in books or movies. But writing a story isn’t free. For every choice a […]
Ever thought about how Love (or having a crush) is like having an addiction to a person? Well, it is and you can benefit from knowing this. Ever gotten to know someone slowly and realised after a while that even though they seemed almost-perfect (kind, outgoing, cute, smart, introspective, and understanding) you still didn’t have […]
I want to talk about an idea that I’ve started seeing everywhere during my work. To introduce it, here are a number of cases where excessive pressure in the software development process leads to certain perhaps undesirable designs. The last one here is what I want to talk about because I think it goes most […]