Notes

Reading Tanya’s Staff Engineers path1 and also yesterday hearing Take Two CEO interview2 on Gen AI. Strauss Zelnick saying, from his game company perspective, hits are always novel. And Gen AI produces what is derivative. Dont expect to get creativity out of an LLM basically. This helps to better direct the plasma cutter, the coding harness, to a tighter subset of problems. Or the better analogy is what are the nails, when youre holding the code gen shaped hammer. ( I also discussed this here 3). ...

Since I have been using fuzzy find fzf1 lately, switching to fzf for reverse shell search2, I was wondering hey can I use this for switching to a chrome tab? With a super quick trial and error session with ChatGPT, I have an Applescript answer to this question, below. So this works really well for me so far. Will try it out a bit more before adding it to my ~/.bash_profile. But pretty game changing for now. ...

I was interested in improving my reverse search Control R experience on my shell because many of my previous commands are not easily searchable or they disappear too fast. Initially I just wanted to figure out if you can use fzf for the reverse-search, but ChatGPT made me aware of atuin too. This sounded super fancy and the atuin1 idea of using a local sqlite db for a command cache looked interesting, so I tried to brew install atuin first. ...

I was worried I would lose the american airlines app notifications but luckily the email notifications persisted. So here is some of my data, extracted from emails from aa.com I wanted to use some data to tell the story of a recent trip I was taking from NY to Arizona. I left a very engaging group discussion at work because I planned a tight bike ride home to wrap up a quick exit to the airport in time to board my plane. ...

Trying to see have I written about this before, but weve had data scuence for a while , where given domain knowledge, programming knowledge, and some maths, you can iterate towards data science (just kidding that’s a blog). You can iterate towards a model that fits your data and generalizes modestly on unseen data. Then we entered ML engineering, where you lean into the formal aspects of rigorous testing and more into the repeatable, so less trial and error perhaps. ...

Quick note here for posterity. I wanted to setup a chromadb with maybe something similar to the @cf/qwen/qwen3-embedding-0.6b that I’m using on cloudflare out of the box. I setup a new uv venv --python 3.13 and tried to pull in uv pip install sentence-transformers chromadb markdown-it-py and then I wanted to , try qwen31 from hugging face, from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer # Load the model model = SentenceTransformer("Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B") however I ran into several installation roadblocks. Anyway without getting into all the hurdles, ultimately I realized per reading the torch docs3 and the versions of torch available4, that my x86 mac torch support stopped at torch<2.3. And after it was only arm64, if I wanted to just grab the wheel file directly. And the torch website recommended python 3.10 . And well, that torch 2.2.2 requires numpy<2. And the last twist was that huggingface started listing the qwen3 architecture only by transformers>=4.51.0, which can also be seen on their model card2 . ...

Note on creating this image Original prompt to Chat GPT Realistic Image of someone in shorts pulling a pocket out, inverting it, revealing a small hole the pocket lining has. They are of the facial expression sort of like “hide the pain harry”. They are holding a slightly screen cracked telephone in their other hand. This image has a second vertical pane as well, on the right. This pane is further split into top and bottom, the same person shows they are putting now their phone into a thin hat, and their mood is like neutralish. Now the last bottom pane here, we see them half way, putting their thin hat, that visibly has the geometry of a phone rectangle , into their pocket. Now their facial expression is “clever” . And there is also a thin frame at the top where a title reads “Hat Pocket” The panes, arranged, are like this , ...

so I got a kind of an interesting thought about what is a good benefit from AI by listening to this interview about how AI is making our education system dumber because people are cheating. So the people in the interview are talking about how students are cheating when they are writing, but at minute 15 one of the guests talks about the defense as a style of proving that you know some material as an interesting way of my passing the cheating, which is in writing, and I think he’s out to something. ...

Image notes Original Prompt Lets create a realistic image of a bunch of dogs in a parking lot, where there is maybe one or two cars in bad shape and the dogs are just visibly barking , to each other at random birds , at thr cars, or off frame . Everything is super real looking , but lets add in some small “bark” “woof” words near the dogs that are vocalizing ...