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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.

I’m taking a sabbatical.

It took two years, but I finally finished building an interpreter.

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.

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. 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.

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…

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.

Ideally, when we say we think something is likely (or unlikely), we should revisit our prediction later once we know the actual outcome… so this year some friends and I will be competing by predicting various 2024 events.