Tech, AI, and Data

“I write what I learn. I learn by what I write”

Tracing
tech
“Tell her you traced that”
Saturday September 7, 2024
 
Just a few lines of code
tech
Anytime anyone tells you “it’s been simplified to a few lines of code”, that always means it’s several thousand lines of code hidden in the closet. You inherit both when…
Wednesday September 4, 2024
 
Don’t trust a cloud provider
tech
Never trust a cloud provider to do compute for you, like AmazonForecast. (Or LLM tuning?)
Monday August 19, 2024
 
Chicken Nugget A B testing
tech
A/B testing
Why cutting chicken nuggets for my 2y old is an optimization problem, and how social media companies use these principles:
Saturday August 17, 2024
 
Forget Pythonic. Write code that works
tech
For the Python nerds: I’ve seen data scientists bashing notebooks for years. I was one of them.
Thursday August 1, 2024
 
Schema Markup video
tech
https://youtu.be/8z_KQv2vBpM?si=vjVztfIe5RCx3M-c
Wednesday July 3, 2024
 
Mojo programming language
tech
Someone decided to create Python syntax but with type checking built in.
Friday May 17, 2024

Pinball Loss
tech
I just learned about Pinball Loss: How I made peace with quantile regression
Wednesday May 1, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-04-19
news
RAG using Llama 3 by Meta AI - a Lightning Studio by akshay
Friday April 19, 2024
 
Quivr App, Reader API, Zed
news
ai tools
Every day I learn something new about the AI space. Today it’s quivr and reader and zed.
Wednesday April 17, 2024

Microsoft Copilot notes
tech
Three copilots:
Friday April 5, 2024

LLMs need to call Functions
news
ai
ai tools
Andrew Ng on LinkedIn: Microsoft Absorbs Inflection, Nvidia’s New GPUs, Managing AI Bio Risk, and… | 38 comments
Thursday April 4, 2024

Why you should log with Aimstack
tech
logging
machine learning
data pipeline
ml pipeline
data science
monitoring
ml-tools
I’ve long idolized Home | AimStack. It’s a tool that allows you to track metrics and hyperparameters and a whole bunch of stuff. It lets you compare across experiments.
Tuesday April 2, 2024

Configurations for ML Pipelines
tech
configuration
software engineering
ml pipeline
ml-tools
Configuring an ML pipeline means you have 15 different things that could change at any time and you create a way to easily change those 15 things. Those 15 things could be…
Tuesday April 2, 2024

Ibis DataFrames for Python, why I hate Pandas, and what I miss about dplyr
tech
python
data science
data manipulation
pandas
ibis
data engineering
analytics
I haven’t used ibis as of writing this. Just reviewed the docs.
Sunday March 31, 2024
 
On file formats: parquet vs csv
tech
reactions
news
data science
data engineering
Came across this article today: Robin’s blog – Friends don’t let friends export to CSV
Tuesday March 26, 2024

Chronos: Time Series Foundation Model by Amazon
tech
foundation models
time series
ml-tools
data science
machine learning
TimeGPT and Lag-Llama: Two foundation models for time series forecasting are two predecessor models.
Tuesday March 26, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-03-18
news
Greg Isenberg on LinkedIn: This is an IRS tax form of a recent business we started. 95% of the… | 65 comments - Greg on how to bootstrap a busines. - This is an IRS tax form…
Monday March 18, 2024
 
How I Learn and How to Hack the Audio Book and Speed Reading Game
tech
life hacks

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Thursday March 14, 2024
 
Devin the AI coder
tech
ai tools

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Wednesday March 13, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-03-11
news
ai

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Monday March 11, 2024
 
Setting up a New Mac
tech

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Friday March 8, 2024
 
Hendrix, a Machine Learning Platform by Spotify
tech
ml-tools
machine learning platforms
Spotify has an internal machine learning platform
Friday March 8, 2024
 
Interviewing as an ML engineer
tech
reactions

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Friday March 8, 2024
 
The Baby
tech
startups
“…the kid is not my son”
Sunday March 3, 2024

5 Questions You Should Ask Before Adopting AI
tech

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Tuesday February 20, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-02-18
news
ai tools

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Sunday February 18, 2024

Air Canada’s failed AI-generated Refund Policy and other AI mishaps: When you need guardrails on your AI
tech
ai mishaps
ai
ai guardrails
Be careful what your AI bot says. We can’t yet contain today’s AI - how do we expect to contain tomorrow’s?
Sunday February 18, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-02-17
news

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Saturday February 17, 2024

Unreal AI: Meet Sora
tech
ai
When AI uses reinforcement learning on a physics engine…
Friday February 16, 2024

Spellbook AI Reviews
tech
legal-ai
ai tools
An AI focused on editing and revising legal documents and redlining
Friday February 16, 2024

Observable Framework 1.0 vs Quarto
tech
observable
quarto
tool comparison
Another markdown-based dash boarding solution, similar to Quarto
Thursday February 15, 2024

Package Installer: “uv”
tech
python
software engineering
dev ops
dev tools
Faster than pip and poetry
Thursday February 15, 2024

Gemini in the iOS Google app, TikTok advancements, and ChatGPT memory
news
ai
Crazy world
Wednesday February 14, 2024
 
A/B Testing Resources
tech
A/B testing
statistics
Learn from the best.
Tuesday February 13, 2024
 
TimeGPT and Lag-Llama: Two foundation models for time series forecasting
tech
machine learning
ml-tools
time series
foundation models
A foundation model for time series?
Tuesday February 13, 2024

War Tech
tech
ai
Tech cannot control the hearts of the men and women who wield it. It can only enable them.
Monday February 12, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-02-10
news
data science

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Saturday February 10, 2024

Create AI images with Google’s Gemini model
tech
ai tools
Gemini
chatgpt
llm wars
ai
ChatGPT vs Gemini. The battle begins.
Saturday February 10, 2024

Protobufs - Everything I don’t know
tech
raw notes
data engineering
What they’re potentially used for
Thursday February 8, 2024

Pkl for Configuration Management
tech
coding
data engineering
data science
data pipeline
configuration
Yet another config system
Thursday February 8, 2024

Galileo AI
tech
ai tools
ui generators
design
Text to UI generation
Tuesday February 6, 2024

How to share an HTML file (like a quarto output in GitHub)
tech
quarto
github
data science
html
Do you have an HTML file saved on GitHub that you’d like to share?
Tuesday February 6, 2024

Embedding audio in Quarto
tech
quarto
blogging
tutorial
obsidian
How do I use audio in Quarto? Here are three ways.
Monday February 5, 2024

The Divinely Discontent Chatbot User
tech
software
saas
llm
ai
ai strategy
It’s the early days. One will emerge as the next “Google” of the search engines. Expectations of what software can do are rising. Those expectations are becoming…
Sunday February 4, 2024

LLM Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
tech
llm benchmarks
ai
ai tools
ai benchmarks
Head to head challenges of chatbots.
Sunday February 4, 2024

Holiday Demand Forecasting using XGBoost
tech
data science
machine learning
time series
forecasting
internet article bookmark
How DoorDash makes precision predictions with decision trees and spiky holidays
Friday February 2, 2024

News Notes for 2024-02-02
news
Elon can afford Twitter now
Friday February 2, 2024

Private GPT
tech
ai tools
privacy
open source
Index your local files and chat with them
Friday February 2, 2024

LM Studio
tech
ai tools

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Friday February 2, 2024

GPT4All
tech
ai tools
edge device
privacy
open source
Run LLMs locally
Friday February 2, 2024

Beam AI
tech
ai tools
ai
local ai
privacy
edge device
closed source
Run OpenAI in a native Mac App
Friday February 2, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-01-23
news
ai
tech

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Tuesday January 23, 2024
 
News Notes for 2024-01-19
news
futurism

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Friday January 19, 2024

AI News Recap
news
ai
ai tools
Takeaway: lots of ways to build a business in the future.
Wednesday January 17, 2024
 
AI and the Future of SaaS
news
ai
ai strategy
Build what OpenAI won’t.
Thursday January 11, 2024

This drug is habit forming
tech
social media
An argument against societal acceptance of things not good for us
Tuesday January 9, 2024

The Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction
social media
digital minimalism
tech
modern living
Can you enter it? Or can you leave it?
Tuesday January 9, 2024

A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media
tech
personal experiments
A/B testing
social media
big tech
incentives
decisions
relationships
ai
emotional intelligence
purpose of life
digital minimalism
Tim Ferris has a viewpoint that is 100% aligned with what I experienced working in tech.
Monday January 8, 2024

AI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.
tech
ai
futurism
humanity
creativity
I recently got back into writing some poems. The Dove (Forevermore) was fun to write. After the fact, I tried getting ChatGPT to create something similar. I only tried once…
Friday January 5, 2024

What startups and musicians have in common
tech
startups
music
A recently signed Artist is their own startup
Thursday January 4, 2024

The future wave of AI hype
tech
news
chart critique
Reading about Airplane’s failure per OnlyCFO. A few notable quotes:
Thursday January 4, 2024

The Dream State of Software
tech
design
ai
futurism
Gen AI will blur the lines between what’s dreamed and what’s real - hopefully in a near instant blend of ever evolving software adapting instantly to needs
Wednesday January 3, 2024

The Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion
business strategy
saas
sales
tech
What the software industry and fashion have in common: a divinely discontent customer and excited competitors
Tuesday January 2, 2024

Replacing human work with AI
tech
ai
automation
decisions
leadership
Reactions to an MIT article ‘4 questions to ask before swapping out human labor for AI’
Sunday December 31, 2023
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Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing: