Wed Jul 30
One of my favorite things about small projects is the way their constraints can inspire unexpected solutions. You might expect a simple design to limit the room for creativity, but in my experience the opposite is often true. With this project I had the good fortune to stumble into a solution that 1) taught me...
đŻ AuroraGPT: Goals AuroraGPT: General purpose scientific LLM Broadly trained on a general corpora plus scientific {papers, texts, data} Explore pathways towards a âScientific Assistantâ model Build with international partners (RIKEN, BSC, others) Multilingual English, æ„æŹèȘ, French, German, Spanish Multimodal: images,...
Hereâs some stuff Iâve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
A solid result despite a sleepless night, a rough swim, and one judgmental cowboy.
I donât have much life advice but I do know one thing: Always buy the $200 Yamaha guitar. If youâre thinking about it, do it. Talk to any guitarist you know who has been playing awhile and theyâll have a story about a $200 Yamaha and how good it sounds relative to the price. Itâs with uncanny regularity I encounter...
All the ways your framings and models can lead you astray
How is your summer season going, folks? Recently I have been busy at work, but as part of that, I made huge progress in learning Go. Writing Go code is a pure joy, and I really regret that I have never dedicated myself to it before. It seems to be a perfect weapon for a web developer. It is a great language for...
Just wanted to share a quick solution I realised about my relationship to "short form content". In general I do not consume (or at least try my best not to consume) short form / vertical videos. Too addictive, don't want to wastew the time on it. but.... There are a handful of creators who do thoughtful shortform...
Itâs a good thing I have this format of posts, otherwise this blog may suffer from a lack of regular updates. I have a few drafts currently in the works, and I hope the slower pace of August will allow for some quality time for writing. Also, arenât there way too many things happening at the same time? Itâs hard to...
July 30, 2025 This afternoon I ordered a base model M4 MacBook Pro. I couldnât pass up the deal. Itâs available on Amazon for $1299 thatâs $300 off.
a selfie before the neurotoxicity set in I'm pulling down an old sagging ceiling this morning. I have to pause between each couple of planks. The dust is such a fine haze I can barely see across the little enclosed room. ... Permalink
Summer reading: Escapism served hot and fresh. Now Iâm off to buy myself a hot and fresh personal pan pizza because baby, I earned it.
Exactly two months I shared that I was about to do a little "summer tour" of my a talk about refactoring CSS. And I did! I spoke at CSS Day, Middlesbrough Front End and Pixel Pioneers in three weeks and it was scary and wonderful, very similar to Brecht's experience! I had great conversations with people afterwards...