While visiting Lisbon, my friend and I happened upon a Michelin Star-winning restaurant very close to our Airbnb…. We decided to take the plunge and make reservations.
Blog
Reflections on Thinking as Language
2025-01-11
Two years of using LLMs regularly has challenged a strong belief of mine: that fundamentally, thinking is primarily just language that happens in our heads. I’m aware that this wasn’t a prevailing view in psychology, but I still want to talk about what changed my mind, since it didn’t require reading academic literature – just engaging with practical tools and reflecting on the experience.
Sabbaticaling
2025-01-04
I’m taking a sabbatical.
The Interpreter Has Been Crafted
2024-07-31
Just two short years later
It took two years, but I finally finished building an interpreter.
Saying Goodbye to Nonfiction
2024-07-20
Musings of a disenchanted reader
Since I graduated college, my reading diet has been primarily nonfiction… I’m starting to feel like that’s not a particularly good way to make myself smarter.
Implementing Semantic Search
2024-06-03
Easier than it sounds
Sometimes when you’re searching for a digital record, you don’t remember the precise wording of the original entry…. Semantic search attempts to compare the meanings of words and phrases instead of the characters.
Tasks and Dates
2024-05-31
There's much more than just due dates
Tasks. So simple that every online app tutorial uses them as example data. But try to build a practical task management app and you’ll quickly discover that there’s a lot of complexity to them.
Building a Locally-hosted Todo App
2024-04-06
A practical tool using a practical tech stack
My life is held together with the Todoist app … but it’s just not a good fit for work in the corporate world. And that led me to a practical side project.
A few people have recently asked me what newsletters I read or podcasts I listen to. As of right now, here’s the list of what I keep up with…
Probability Estimates: 2024 – Commentary
2023-12-25
I wanted to add some color to a few of my probability estimates. You may want to check those out first if you haven’t seen them.