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2026-07-25 20:52

From Frank Miller's memoir, I admire the conviction:

Confidence that my ideas are worth pursuing, word by word, picture by picture, book by book, for as long as it takes, or that, worthy or not, right or wrong, I have to pursue them.

2026-07-25 13:21

Taking another stab at learning Queueing Theory, particularly as applied to inference. The thing that always gets me is how unintuitive / surprising the results tend to be.

2026-07-19 18:21

From Influx, a surprisingly prescient book. And this post is perhaps an unwitting reminder to not create the torment nexus.

It was immensely unfulfilling reprimanding AIs. They always had a built-in you’re-the-one-who-created-me excuse.

2026-07-18 21:00

Experimenting with a more personal microblogging setup; Twitter & Threads are great at distribution but posting there can be distracting, and it's often hard to look up old posts I wanted to. Starting with the simplest possible thing I can make, and refining as I go.