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After "AI": Anticipating a post-LLM science & technology revolution
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www.evalapply.org
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9 months ago
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I, for one, welcome the coming age of the post-LLM-datacenter-overinvestment-bust-fueled backyard GPU supercomputer revolution.
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Just letting you know this blog is now on I2P, and here is why I did it
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mrmave.work
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9 months ago
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eng
I thought Tor would be full of dark magic bullshit, turns out it was mostly careful people. I first touched Tor around early 2015. Not because I was brave or ideological or some freedom fighter type. I was just curious and bored and internet kept whispering about “hidden stuff” . You know the narrative. Dark web. Secrets. Crimes. Things you are not supposed to see. That kind of marketing works very well on young, online-brained people. ....
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63a389e01b5de1a938486343b3d8347cdeb065be I decided to keep the echo. It's useful for debugging. 1f0e495f49f83d4deed5d7c53897d172c5218930 Wrap process in try/catch 81958cbbe4dcc8d0de213962b014831d655c9a67 Fix typo
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de9f5366b21412d282e1f24fe16b894610354ce1 Use a src block instead of a quote block for monospaced text
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📗 Breakneck: China’s quest to engineer the future, by Dan Wang
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ernest.oppet.it
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9 months ago
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eng
I’ve been following Dan Wang for years, and read a couple of his annual letters about China. When I saw his first book was coming out, I jumped on it as I have always found his approach really interesting. He mixes policy, societal and political analysis with very ‘on the ground’ first-hand observations about life […]
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The New Whale Chase: Drones, Hydrophones, and a Father-Son Project
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blog.herlein.com
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9 months ago
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eng
After two years of false starts with the Bristlemouth platform and permit headaches, I’m revisiting my whale song project with a completely different approach: semi-autonomous floating drones . The regulatory landscape has forced a rethink, and honestly, it might lead to something better.
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The New Whale Chase: Drones, Hydrophones, and a Father-Son Project
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blog.herlein.com
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9 months ago
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eng
After two years of false starts with the Bristlemouth platform and permit headaches, I’m revisiting my whale song project with a completely different approach: semi-autonomous floating drones . The regulatory landscape has forced a rethink, and honestly, it might lead to something better.
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Looking back at 2025, one theme dominates: AI agentic programming went from novelty to necessity . This year transformed how I think about software development, career advice, and even my personal hardware projects. Here’s what I wrote about, what I learned, and what I expect in 2026.
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Looking back at 2025, one theme dominates: AI agentic programming went from novelty to necessity . This year transformed how I think about software development, career advice, and even my personal hardware projects. Here’s what I wrote about, what I learned, and what I expect in 2026.
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Looking back at 2025, one theme dominates: AI agentic programming went from novelty to necessity . This year transformed how I think about software development, career advice, and even my personal hardware projects. Here’s what I wrote about, what I learned, and what I expect in 2026.
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Looking back at 2025, one theme dominates: AI agentic programming went from novelty to necessity . This year transformed how I think about software development, career advice, and even my personal hardware projects. Here’s what I wrote about, what I learned, and what I expect in 2026.
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Looking back at 2025, one theme dominates: AI agentic programming went from novelty to necessity . This year transformed how I think about software development, career advice, and even my personal hardware projects. Here’s what I wrote about, what I learned, and what I expect in 2026.
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I read 35 books, or 10726 pages, in 2025. A remarkable step up from the previous year . I have not read so many books since 2015 (36), and I never read so many pages before. Having read a few comic books helps pump up the stats, I reckon, and I suspect switching to ebooks played a role, too, as reading is more accessible than ever. I bought a first-edition Kindle back in the day, but never got around to using it much. After a few attempt..
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I read 35 books, or 10726 pages, in 2025. A remarkable step up from the previous year . I have not read so many books since 2015 (36), and I never read so many pages before. Having read a few comic books helps pump up the stats, I reckon, and I suspect switching to ebooks played a role, too, as reading is more accessible than ever. I bought a first-edition Kindle back in the day, but never got around to using it much. After a few attempt..
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I read 35 books, or 10726 pages, in 2025. A remarkable step up from the previous year . I have not read so many books since 2015 (36), and I never read so many pages before. Having read a few comic books helps pump up the stats, I reckon, and I suspect switching to ebooks played a role, too, as reading is more accessible than ever. I bought a first-edition Kindle back in the day, but never got around to using it much. After a few attempt..
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As much as I love buying my dinky calendars each year, it's become painful to think about the fact that I've spent over a hundred bucks on paper I toss each year. Not too long ago I stumbled into TRMNL, and it seemed like the perfect solution for me, but I realized after digging more into it that it doesn't function as a standalone calendar. I do my best to keep my digital footprint to a minimum, and as a result, I don't have any emails....
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Here’s another of my n8n useful workflows. I built it to receive a daily email with the top 20 Hacker News posts, each accompanied by a short summary generated by ChatGPT. You can choose how many posts include and how long and detailed the summary should be. Yes, I know there are many online services that do the same thing and send daily newsletters, but this workflow allows me to decide exactly when to receive the emails during the day, ..
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Here’s another of my n8n useful workflows. I built it to receive a daily email with the top 20 Hacker News posts, each accompanied by a short summary generated by ChatGPT. You can choose how many posts include and how long and detailed the summary should be. Yes, I know there are many online services that do the same thing and send daily newsletters, but this workflow allows me to decide exactly when to receive the emails during the day, ..
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Post-mortem, 2025 Edition Table of Contents 1. Travel 2. Work 3. Learning 4. Life Damascus, Jan 2025. Another year, another performance review season to procrastinate on. I felt like I largely locked in this year on work, so the scorecard is: 1. Travel In January I went to Syria , spending about a month there and bopping around Sayyida Zaineb. The experience was incredible, especially only a mo....
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Dilettantes and Polymaths this post is far more rambling than my regular ones It's been a year. Normally I'd write up something wrapping up about my goals and how far I accomplished, but I think for me this year was one long lesson in understanding the difference between being a dilettante and a polymath. I've always been terrified of being a dilettante, mostly because it creates some sort of "crank" identity, such as the weirdo....
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Fieldnotes Table of Contents 1. Central America 2. South America 3. Middle East and North Africa Midnight volleyball in Fort Washington Park, 2021. Some fieldnotes from various places I've lived in. I usually will write up a section for any country I've lived for more than a month in. 1. Central America El Salvador 2. South America Uruguay Argentina 3. Middle East and Nor..
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Pret's Fruit Cup I prod the strawberry with my fork. It's actually half of a strawberry, sliced in twain by some machine at some indeterminate time ago. The plastic cup it came in promised "organic" and "fresh daily", although I figure companies like Pret probably have redefined "daily" in terms of elephant years or something. The bottom tip of the strawberry's red flesh is a bit mushy, but also sweeter than the rest of it. I pause, brief....
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Read the Damn Error Message Table of Contents 1. Example 1.1. Tracebacks is a structured logs 1.2. Read the actual error 1.3. Check the filenames, switch the reading order 1.4. Print it (or use pdb) 2. Debugging Mentality I've been working on a project for grad school, and through watching my teammates, I've seen them exhibit some of the same behaviors I see juniors do. The most frustrating one is the inability to....
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Shrines Table of Contents 1. Locations: 1. Locations: Photographs of various shrines I've seen. A shrine here is basically anything I consider to have spiritual significance. < 2021:07:21 09:55:40 > - < 36.7586833333333, 43.8936416666667 > < 2021:07:21 11:25:05 > - < 36.7682833333333, 43.8941166666667 > < 2025:05:04 09:07:04 > - < 36.7849083333333, 3.06117222222222 > < 2019:07:05 16:42:0....
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El Salvador Table of Contents 1. Fiestas de Agosto 1.1. Mass on the 6th 2. Romero 3. Misc 4. Wrap I just came back from three weeks in El Salvador. You land to a giant sign that says "El Salvador, the Land of Smiles," which might be a stretch. Summer means rain most afternoons; thunderstorms drift through most evenings for an hour or two. I spent three weeks in the city for the Fiestas de Agosto and San ....
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