Bike rides
Whenever I go for a bike ride near my place, specially during summer, I am immediately transported into another world. Something that is 5 minutes away, yet...
Deterministic work 'for' the LLM
I generated a lot of code this week. In my opinion there are two ways to go about working with LLMs. 1) You do the same work as you used to do pre-AI, just...
Trying to form habits
Habits can be hard to develop, but can also be then equally hard to let go. Or rather, you get beholden to the habits. Which is a good thing, if it is a good...
Local first everything
I was at the LocalFirstConf last week. It was Amazing! The excitement and the passion about the technologies and tools that people presented was quite...
Fable, or just a new attempt
Last week, I finally resolved an issue with my AT-proto personal data server that I faced since more than a month. It started when I tried to move my PDS...
6 months old!
I talk about my foray into twitter, completing 6 months of writing this newsletter, and share reading material and a project
AI's creep is worrying
It is a well proven fact at this point that working with LLMs/AI has a detrimental cognitive affect on humans. Students perform worse than their peers,...
Anticipatory Nostalgia
It is fine to not finish books. No hot take here. In fact, outside the passionate readers community, I don’t think it is even a take. People regularly just...
Memories of rain
Is it raining these days where you live? My wife and I were walking to the market yesterday in a light rain, not quite a drizzle, or a mizzle, but a shower,...
A standard podcast record
I’ve been working on a spec & standard. Actually, it is a lot of copying of existing ones. Specifically podcasting2 from Podcast Index, and Apple’s iTunes,...
Uneventful
I have been thinking about what to write this week. Not much from work that is relevant for the post here, nor from outside that is worth mentioning. Apart...
How much can you learn?
I used to believe that I was not built for complex concepts of science or engineering. That I was simply not smart enough. At work, I was fearful of the...
Ramen and movies in Düsseldorf
You are supposed to maximise outdoor time when in a new city. At least that’s how I think. But that’s not what I ended up doing on my trip to Düsseldorf this...
Onboarding humans
There is no single format that ensures a good onboarding of a new team-mate. No one size fit all. But there is an ethic that can work for all. At least...
Deliberation vs Action
I saw an interview of an businessman this week who said something to the effect of ‘educated people analyse took much and fear committing’ in the interview....
Blow horn and use dipper at night
If you’ve been to or lived in the subcontinent, you know what this is. Trucks suggesting/requesting/demanding that you blow the horn are ubiquitous. The...
Hoarding books and reading little
One of the many things that cheap labour in a growing economy with a huge wealth gap like India’s subsidises, is books. That and a slightly lower quality...
Humans circle the moon
Hello everyone. I continued my vacation this week, and as with anyone travelling back to their homeland, it was mostly about getting pending things done and...
Running the website on AT-Proto data
Hello all, when I started working on my current website back in 2021, the initial goal was to collect everything that I’ve done in a single place, and in...
AI chooses who to kill
Just two week ago, I mentioned humanoid robots that were being deployed on the frontlines of Ukraine-Russia war. Well, looks like things can get much worse...