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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

Review of "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