Things I learned building a model validation library

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 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.