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Few things are all or nothing in life. There are many forms of retrieval and many conditions for their use. In some scenarios it is helpful to have retrieval with LLMs and other ti…

It's interesting how one AI approach is to do similar amounts of work with less intensity and energy. Glad it has improved your mental health.

Sounds pretty cool!

For software engineers and related fields, I know what procrastination has traditionally looked like, and how it manifests. Now, things like codex, cursor, claude code can remove s…

Having a strong internal locus of control, balanced with prayer centered around gratitude.

Same. The ability to investigate a topic from almost any angle or starting point has been really fun and helpful.

Agreed that it's an underserved market (personal genome sequencing). Do you own or have access to a sequencing platform / machine? Or do you just buy and prepare kits, and then sen…

Roughly agreed. I'm a bit baffled when it seems like someone is having long conversations with multiple tasks and loads of add-ons. I generally have one or two iterations and then …

In many many ways our technology is not working on our behalf. Even though it seems possible.

You might look into applying RL in the domain of low cost robotics and drones. That would draw on some of your past experience but applied to a domain (robotics) which I perceive i…

I find value in learning some things deeply but not all things. The ability to be more selective about where I attend deeply, while leveraging fast shallow learning to complete oth…

It's technically quite feasible with modern search and language model technology. The challenge is in acquiring all the book text, meaningful cost to implement, and minimal paths t…

Basic index etfs for Nasdaq and SP500.

It's intriguing how book recs aren't really that good anywhere. I mean they are ok, but rarely great. Google and Amazon have most of the text but still don't solve this so well. In…

Significant chunks of the software engineer community self select into minimizing time spent with customers or even any non-engineers. It's understandable but unfortunate too. I wo…

- Invest money from each paycheck. - Make a practice of walking daily. - Casually lift a few times a week. - Pray daily. Focus on gratitude.

Yes, very realistic. Search for the engineering / manager pendulum online to see various discussions on the topic. There are lots of differences between management in a startup vs …

Agreed. You should be able to set the waf to just drop the packets and not even bother with the overhead of a response. I think cloud flare waf calls this "block".

Where do you get the data?

Working in ISP and Managed Hosting environments made me a better engineer. Lots of unix/linux, networking, DNS, etc. Lots of support and problem solving. It all led to both a bread…

The X-Files was right all along

Several ideas off the cuff: * More work semesters like Waterloo * A class on career planning * A class on financial planning * Philosophy of science and engineering course