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I'm Alex, a technologist from Calgary, Canada. This is my blog.
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Projects llms-full.txt
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Mixtape MakerPrepare music playlists for recording onto an analog cassette.
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Film Development CalculatorCalculate the time between film baths automagically.
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Timewaste Tracker for Reddit & …A memento mori for how much time you're wasting on Reddit.
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French Republican Calendar ToolsTrack time the old, old fashioned way.
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llms.txt
Imagine my shock and surprise to discover that when I submit resumes now, I quickly see LLM research agents in my access logs pouring over my portfolio page. As time moves ever forward, I suspect I’ll be dealing with AI agents more frequently, especially in the job market.
I’m not...
Read more ⟶Truth Functional Logic for Hackers - Part One
Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset.
When they profiled their micropython code, they found that OR...
Read more ⟶Greg & the Eternal Brunch
The year was 2036. OpenAI had finally done it. After decades of press releases, quarterly existential criese, and machine learning papers so esoteric they made Finnegans Wake read like PopSci, they’d finished gpt-6z (revision 3) - a perfect, autonomous general intelligence.
It’s...
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