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1745 Days

255 (0b11111111) days ago, I wrote my most personally significant blog post to date: 2000 Days In 2000 Days, I reflect on important values in my life and conclude that I am defined by one central theme: control. This may only be partially true. Control, as a virtue, addresses my

Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick isn't the most literary writer, but the ideas he presents in this novel are engaging and I am sure that they were ahead of his time. Present day, with all the thoughts and worries involving large language models, an android filled future may not be

Poem: Togetherness

isn't it funny? how in our togetherness, despite both individuals being worse off, keeping up the facade hurts a little less than telling the truth?

Comments on Work (2024)

I am working on some exciting GenAI projects at Google. Through this work, I have found myself truly leading projects for the first time in my life. Often, I am dictating the direction and the pace of the work that my immediate team is doing. This is stressful and I&

On Turning 25

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear friend, Happy Birthday to you! May your day be filled with joy, laughter, and all the things that make you happiest. Enjoy your special day! - ChatGPT I'm glad to be turning 25. The past few years

2023: Reflections and Looking Forward

Follow up on "My 2022 In Review". January Being in the software industry, I must consider the relationship of my work to the launch timeline of ChatGPT. In January we all had about one (1) month of experience using ChatGPT and many people were already calling it a

Book Review: The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro's 1988 novel "The Remains of the Day" is an instant favorite of mine. In the book, Ishiguro explores concepts such as duty, vocational passion, and love. It is a powerfully sad story. Having read the book, I have noticed a marked decrease in how

thornewolf.dev charter

I've finally solidified on a purpose for my *.dev domain https://www.thornewolf.dev/. It is to provide an experience similar to Simon Willison's til.* domain. I found myself looking for a way of publication that is more formal than Twitter, but less formal than publishing

Placing Marbles Into Buckets - Expected Max Marbles

This question is inspired by an estimation problem I noticed in the workplace. We wanted to predict the QPS our service needs to support when client requests are rare but come in bursts when they do arrive. Problem Statement We have N marbles and M buckets. Randomly and uniformly distribute

A Proposed Design for an LLM-Powered Text-Based MMORPG

In this writeup I will specify a few high level components that I think would be crucial for implementing an LLM-powered Text-Based MMORPG. I will identify what I consider to be the key architectural components for building a system that can support an arbitrary number of players interacting within this