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I recently bought a new watch. It's the Casio MQ24-9B. I got it for ~20€. Here are some picture of it: I didn't expect much from the watch. It's extremely simple, and it only really does one thing, tell the time. I do like that, although...
For as long as I can remember, I have drawn. In the walls, in my books, in my homework, in any paper I could find. I was never a great artist, does not matter how much people around me tell me otherwise. To people who have never tried...
Getting married is often associated with spending eye-watering amounts of money. Allow me to challenge this notion with a simple observation: the expensive part of a wedding is nothing more or less than a voluntary party. Getting and...
Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve ever resorted to MANDATORY or DO NOT SKIP, you’ve hit the ceiling of prompting....
As I was packing for my month long trip to the Philippines, I cleaned my room. Not a deep clean, just the kind you do when you want to come back to something decent after being gone for a good while. I dusted the surfaces, vacuumed the...
I have recently had the domain renewal notice for skryblans. It is set to auto-renew annually anyway, it's just they let me know a couple of weeks before that's due to happen. Even though I haven't blogged for more than a month now, I...
IntroIf you're active at all when it comes to language model research these days, you almost certainly have an implicit mental model for what kinds of training have been useful for capability improvement in the post-o1 era. The...
The topic for this month’s Bearblog Carnival is “your favorite ______ in your niche hobby.” I’m a knitter and throughout the decade or so that I’ve been knitting, I’ve tried an impressive amount of project types, patterns, yarn weights...
I had a meeting with a local elected official today, which I had requested to discuss a specific issue. We got chitchatting about some other, unrelated local politics issues, and the official asked me my opinion on a few of them. I gave...
this is my entry to the bear blog carnival, hosted by kami. the question: "what's your favorite ___ in your niche hobby?" my niche hobby is taking pictures and videos of flowers. something about their shapes, colors, and watching them...
For the past several days I have been debugging an important part of infrastructure in project. You know, the type of bugs which appear randomly, not documented thoroughly and are hard to catch because they appear occasionally in...
Who knows that you blog? David recently asked this question on his blog. Most people who know me are also aware that I have a blog. It's not like I shout it out every time I meet someone, but it tends to come up naturally since it's one...
i've started this blog to encourage a daily writing practice, and i'm finding that it's orders of magnitude easier to publish when the words are not associated with my public persona. maybe i'm uniquely concerned about how i'm perceived,...
For the past 6 months or so, I've been using a dumbphone nearly exclusively. However, I'm dipping my toes back into smartphone usage with some limitations. There's a lot of reasons I'm going back to using a smartphone more regularly, and...
This song means more than just childhood orchestra memories to us. During our lowest of lows as the pandemic happened, we were ready to give up. As part of a last hurrah, we were invited to play a Christmas party in somebody's barn in...