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Thorne Wolfenbarger

What is my Pre-Reading?

Pre-reading is a useful activity before attending a lecture to make sure you get the most out of the delivered content. Doing some pre-reading lay out some foundations for the subject matter at hand and helps you connect the concepts introduces in the lecture more quickly and more deeply. What

2024 In Review

Follow up on "2023: Reflections and Looking Forward". This is the year I became a reader, writer, poet, and meditator on love. I took an ~6 month break from personal programing projects. 2024 was about the same as 2023, earning it a tie for "best year of

Python + UV + TailwindCSS Dockerfile | Jan 1, 2025

FROM python:3.12-slim-bookworm COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/ # Copy the project into the image ADD . /app # Sync the project into a new environment, using the frozen lockfile WORKDIR /app RUN uv sync --frozen RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl RUN curl

Knowledge, Information, Compression. Useful?

Knowledge is having a simple representation for complex data. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Knowledge is having a lot of data to work with in the first place. Sometimes, knowledge is only knowledge within a specific domain.

Ephemerality

I hate ephemerality. I hate the mutability of life's structures. The shifting of connections through some agnostic evolutionary process - human and non-human. A person should remain their caricature. A person should find a community that suits them, knowing that this bond is a life-knot. Two people should

Software for LLM Effectiveness

Large Language Models (LLMs) are great when their needs are met: Need 1. Can consistently get relevant, well-formatted context for their inference Need 2. Can consistently output text w.r.t. an input schema Need 3. Are offered a sandboxed code execution environment Need 4. Are subject to human review;

He's so perfect!

He's so perfect! So why don't you text him? Well he doesn't text me! But he does, right? He texted you just as we sat down. He doesn't text me enough! I want him to want me! You know? No, I don&

The Ideal Government is a Hyper-Rational Evangelist

The singular goal of government, implicit until now, is to design and protect a structure where there is no distinction between the rational and the hyper-rational. Definitions * Rational Action: A single agent's action that optimizes that agent's utility function under some policy. * Hyper-Rational Action: A single

The Author

I've answered too many questions about vocation - far too many about the heart and past relationships. Questions that, by all my considerations, were the least interesting and the most unoriginal questions I’ve ever encountered. These questions - in their roteness, their dullness, their pathetic attempts at

1745 Days - Optionality

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