Entries
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These past two days have been something of a whirlwind, as I made a couple of important life decisions. The decisions...
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After yesterday’s massive post (and given the two assignments I have to do today) I figured I would write something a...
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This is a follow-on post to yesterday’s, um, last Friday’s post about curiosity driven approaches to reinforcement le...
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I figure I’ll publish this long post in a couple parts, over today and tomorrow or perhaps the day after (as tomorrow...
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I had two assignments due today, and working on those consumed most of my time, so unfortunately today’s post will be...
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“Take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I c...
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The other day I wrote a post titled On craft and AI that analogized AI to a hammer, a tool. I like the tool analogy b...
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I was curious to see whether I could find cheap cross-country flights for this upcoming long weekend. Spoiler: guess....
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Today is Sunday! What a great day. Today was absolutely freezing, and I just about froze my ears off while walking ar...
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tl;dr: Today I typed up the first ~13-pages of a WIP specification for Isocore. The spec is about halfway done. I wro...
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Games, Rules, Laws? Writing is a game. A while back I came across the best linguistics paper. Anne Cutler wrote it, l...
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Yesterday I wrote ~2,500 words, so today will be a little shorter. A couple weeks ago I started working on a now ~5k ...
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In 2016, I stumbled across otoro.net, which is still the gem now that it was then. The website is full of funky littl...
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A quick post tonight because I should already be in bed. A lower-bound estimate for the number of calories the averag...
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Whenever you’re at a transition point in your life, I wonder why I’m writing this! moving to a new city, starting a n...
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Today is Sunday, the day of rest. My day today was very good. (My goodness it’s so nice to be back home in Cambridge,...
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I’ve been a fan of Conflict-Free replicated datatypes for a while. I wrote an old blog post about implementing them b...
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“Well okay I’m so glad you got to call him, who was he? The Dean of AI at Google?” “Haha his name is Dean. Jeff Dean....
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Happy Sunday! Two days ago, I woke up at 5:45am to row 26.2 miles. I walked on to the rowing team at MIT a year and a...
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What’s the difference between a library and a framework? It depends on your definitions. Here are mine: When using a ...