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ChatGPT unfortunately does not distribute a Linux app. I have heard a lot of good things about computer use and wanted to try it with my sub, but unfortunately I was relegated to the Codex CLI. So I built my own. It has since (today) booked my flights, re

Very few people have deep conviction in technology, or really even understand technology in vivo. stagnation In 1968, "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released to theaters. It was a microcosm of a cultural infatuation we had with the future. Technology had rei

Anthropic's culture, storytelling, and aesthetics are perhaps the best in the modern valley. This is enshrined in their stellar retention and their product (Claude, Claude's constitution). But they have a big consumer marketing problem. Their story isn't

This essay is about the AI businesses that will eat the world, and how to build them. the future of work There is no question that a large majority of white collar work will be automated, what is at stake is how, and what the journey will look like gettin

This blogpost is a synopsis of my personal journey chasing apparent oddities in the way my laptop's brightness is set. a new laptop A few months ago my (not so) old thinkpad was falling apart. The delete key was missing (which, does not lead to less mista

This is a walkthrough of my attempt at building a realtime assistant (J.A.R.V.I.S.) that can respond on demand to voice, text, and your laptops screen. It was highly technical, including a lockless ring buffer, FSM (finite state machine), and concurrency

1 Preliminaries Symbol Meaning $d$ width of the residual stream $L$ number of Transformer blocks $V$ vocabulary size, so logits live in $mathbb R{V}$ $h{(ell)}$ residual-stream vector entering block $ell$ $r{(ell)}$ the update written by block $ell$ $W_U!

I recently saw a tweet1 about how people should go about starting startups/businesses, and it caused me to formalize my intuitions around two distinct types of tech businesses I am familiar with. I'll call them $O(n)$ startups and $O(n{2})$ startups. Thro