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I spent the past week or so trying to figure out how my local school district and the rest of Vermont had trended over time on academic achievement. Vermont has a lot of unique cir…

Excellent writeup from someone who clearly cares about hitting the intersection of "good for customers, good for himself and investors, and good for employees". We'd be much better…

It's weird to see someone present as novel what is like talking about the weather, at least for the average person in the U.S. (not in the Bay Area, in the U.S.). It's fascinating …

I love revisiting RDF/OWL Semantic Web formats every 10 years. One of these years will be the one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

As someone who worked at Google, it is absolutely ridiculous to claim Google only lost its moral compass in this decade, let alone suggest it HAD its moral compass in 2017 when the…

I was surprised standard prompting techniques couldn't coax accurate financial budget line items from frontier models. There are ~250 of these pdfs published every year, each town …

A site I put together while volunteering for my Vermont town, made heavy, heavy use of Claude Code (and occasional Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries…

Yeah, not only are people doing this, but this is possibly one of the most common problems int he real world with real people. The blog post may have some helpful suggestions, but …

Bonus comment: I was present for conversations about how Google should just write an internal version because of all the stability issues, but that that work would never get priori…

As someone who worked as a software engineer at Google on a service that heavily depended on FFmpeg, its absurd that Google posts security bugs (which have the obvious potential ou…

The key thing I'm confident in is that 2-3 years from now there's going to be a model(s) and workflow that has comparable accuracy, perhaps noticeable (but tolerable) higher latenc…

I have been around a little while, so I reach for what I think of as boring tech for hosting my own stuff. I'd love to hear about 1) the bulletproof stuff people use for their own …

A project I started as a way to get more mileage with various LLM applications. I've been surprised by how good some of the character designs that get generated are: 1. https://ki-…

Personal blog post on experiment website: https://ki-storygen.com

I would love to see comments for other fun/entertainment oriented sites using GenAI people have seen. I think I've read a lot from what the big Foundation Model Co's are developing…

Link to a GenAI Interactive kids story generator, inspired by 'Little Golden Books' series. Blog post: https://musings-mr.net/post/ki-storygen-experiment

Uses the gemini flash 2.5 preview version from today, but still uses Imagen 3 for image generation (I was getting a "publisher endpoint does not exist" when trying to use the Image…