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Third time's the charm: I've decided to resurrect my habit of writing a weekly letter to capture what I've been working on and thinking about. I've found this to be very useful in making me more consistent in exploring and learning from week to week.
I'm taking a recharge: every 5 years, Meta gives employees a month off; this time around I'm planning to spend mine learning, programming, and building better personal habits while I reset from some fairly aggressive sprints for supporting LLaMa 3 and LLaMa 4 training.
After taking part in Recurse Center's Mini program -- and reading about how John Carmack takes weeks to just go study -- I'm fairly excited for a programming vacation to scratch a lot of itches around things I wanted to study / play with much more deeply and just haven't had time to.
This month's plan is to work through several online courses and books to build my muscles with LLMs, distributed systems, programming and maths in general and at the same time releasing a few open source projects I've been planning out for some time. I'll also be working on integrating LLM based workflows much more aggressively into my regular writing and programming.
Letters with [open] in the title are under construction, as I just start writing and collecting things as the week is progressing.
Entries here are basically like Tweets.
I use sway on all my linux laptops, and I was struggling with window management in Windows. Gemini suggested GlazeWM and that has been surprisingly nice and familiar.
After spending a little bit of time customizing the appearance of zebar and getting used to the shortcuts, I'm feeling much more comfortable actually doing work in this setup with (with minimal animations, wasted space, a dense layout, and a generally stable setup).
Historically, I've been fairly dismissive towards memorizing anything -- I can google or look up whatever I need. But Math is the one language I actually think is worth having at the tips of my fingers, and I'd like to retain it through the rest of my life.
So I've started building an Anki Deck as I work through Math Academy as an experiment.