Rest of What I Know
Rest of What I Know
Roshan George
I'm Roshan and I post on my blog about engineering, life in San Francisco, and the process through which I became a father.
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Roshan: /* The Tasting */ [[File:Carbon Steel Sabatier Knife Grape Slice.webp|thumb|Not the best knife work or care but good enough for the point]] I recently took a few of our knives to...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot We have a [https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/p1 Bambu P1S] to print with and a [https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/ams-2-pro Bambu AMS 2 Pro] to store and swap filament. This...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Roshan George - ca. 2013.webp|thumb|I don't actually look less nerdy than this in real life]] I went by Julie's place of work today to see if a friend of hers, Ben M.,...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Citation Laundering - An Example Flowchart.png|thumb|By the time you view the end result, you see only citations to other papers, making it appear like science]]...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Amazon Otoscope.webp|thumb|Pretty simple device]] Recently, someone on the Internet mentioned a cheap otoscope. It's billed on...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Play Pen to Fence - Block Model.webm|right]] My wife, [[Julie Yu Kang|Julie]], and I both use our Bambu P1S for stuff around the house. Today she was telling me about a...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:3d print of a Power Grid Power Plant Card Display.png|thumb|The little magnets allow you to connect the different sections temporarily]] We've been playing quite a bit...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Shiri's Scissor]] is a fictional device that constructs maximally controversial statements. It is the primary macguffin in a (popular among rationalists and adjacents)...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A common belief that people used to have is that people would use fake video to create outrage in the world. I was of the belief that a substantial enough amount of fake video...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot The [[wikipedia:Dead Internet theory|Dead Internet theory]] claims that all Internet content is now posted by bots and so on in order to control the population and whatnot. I...
Roshan: Created page with "Amusingly accurate I don't listen to too many podcasts, but a few times I've put the Joe Rogan Experience on while I'm driving down to the South Bay. The most typical two complaints about Joe Rogan are that he...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot - Contextual Claude Code.png|thumb|`gum` is pretty neat for terminal niceness. I use it in `concode`]] Recently, like many others I've found that Opus 4.5 is...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Slop slop]] is text that repetitively calls things slop. Because of the popularity of the word slop<ref name=mw/> to refer to AI generated text, it is now used to derisively...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot In [[Blog/2025-12-01/Grounding Your Agent]] I talked about how grounding your agent allows it to make better decisions. This is akin to the approach you would take if you were...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Tractables]] are problems that are easy to solve. In Computer Science, this would be problems in P. Programmers and the like do use 'tractable' to describe non-programming...