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2026-03-08

New infra stacks

After more than a decade at Meta using custom built technologies it's a bit strange to learn the more cloud-based infrastructure: something like using my off hand to do tasks I'm generally comfortable with. The actual work is the same, just the way to do it is different.

New Papers

Came across a bunch of papers I'd like to catch up with

There's so much fun stuff to learn here; I'm also going to be spending time cleaning up my basics by working through the Bishop book and other courses when I get a chance.

Becoming comfortable with MacOS

Mac has been less painful to adapt to this time around, specifically by using

I'm still struggling with muscle memory between Cmd and Alt: while I've generally adapted to Mac's idiosyncracies over the past 2 weeks, I plan to swap these to match my personal setup more closely.

AI Notes

There are often conversations with AI I'd like to easily archive for future use: such as the snippets I'd pasted into a newsletter a few weeks ago. I'm still thinking about the best way to incorporate that into this notebook -- whatever I choose, it'll be very explicitly and loudly marked as AI generated, preferably with a pointer to which AI as well.