Programming Principles: Separation of Concerns

An essay on the programming principle of Separation of Concerns, and why it is important to follow it.

Programming Principles: Clarity Over All

A discussion of the programming principle of Clarity Over All, and how to write code that is easy to understand and maintain.

Book Review: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

A review of John C. Maxwell's book 'The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership', which outlines essential principles for effective leadership.

Project Zero Inventory: Week 2 - The Build

Designing the first products for Project Zero Inventory.

How I Write

I share how I write, from ideation to publication, and the tools I use to make it happen, especially with regard to AI tools.

Project Zero Inventory: Week 1 - The Idea

Exploring whether 3D printing can be used to validate physical product ideas before investing in manufacturing.

Book Review: Extreme Ownership

A review of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's book 'Extreme Ownership' and three broader leadership lessons I took away from it.

Project AIVID: Week 4 - The Verdict

Reflecting on Project AIVID and deciding whether it is worth continuing.

Book Review: Misbehaving

A review of Richard Thaler's book 'Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics', which chronicles the history and development of the field of behavioral economics.

Project AIVID: Week 3 - The Product

Building a local AI video editing framework using open-source models, week 3.

Turing Complete AI

Exploring how AI Agents built around transformer models can be Turing Complete, and what this means for general intelligence.

Project AIVID: Week 2 - The Build

Building a local AI video editing framework using open-source models.

Spherical Cows

A lighthearted exploration of the concept of spherical cows and what they look like in the real world.

Project AIDVID: Week 1 - The Problem

Discussing the overall goal and motivation for Project AIDVID.

Back Online

After nearly 10 months away, I’m finally back to building, experimenting, and posting regularly again.

Who killed Pip?

Last weekend I played detective in a crazy debugging mystery thriller with an unexpected twist!

Introducing CuentoGo

CuentoGo lets you read Spanish stories.

Building Train Hats

Sometimes to make a train, you need to make a hat.

The Colors of Music

Here I show a cool mapping from music to color.

Turing Incomplete AI

I describe the limitations of AI and the implications of Turing Incomplete AI.

Shadowing Radiation Therapy

I describe my week shadowing radiation therapy treatments.

New Year Resolutions 2025

Publicly declaring my resolutions for 2025 so I can't back out.

Physics, AI, and the Nobel Prize

Here I write some thoughts reflecting on the recent Nobel Prize in physics.

Analyzing the NASDAQ with Gaussian Processes

Here we demonstrate how to use Gaussian Processes to analyze the NASDAQ.

The Special Sauce at the Fall Festival

A fun day at the fall festival.

Update September 2024

My life update for summer 2024.

Mapping inference to physics - Part 3

Here I show updates to a project mapping general inference to physics.

Mapping inference to physics - Part 2

Here I show updates to a project mapping general inference to physics.

Comparing different models on biophysics data

Here we compare different deep learning models on a few biophysics datasets.

Update April 2024

My life status update for April 2024.

Update March 2024

My life status update for March 2024.

An ode to leap day

Reflections on the history of leap day

Information Physics Part One

Here I post preliminary work on deriving physics of information.

Update February 2024

My life status update for February 2024.

Update January 2024

My life status update for January 2024.

Building Backwards

Here I explain concepts learned from the books Biodesign and Building Backwards to Biotech regarding how to start a biotech startup by working from the end goal backwards.

Chinese Character Generator

Here we show how to use diffusion based generative models to generate Chinese characters.

Update December 2023

My life status update for December 2023.

Dirichlet Clustering for Clinical Outcome Prediction

Here we show how to use Dirichlet Clustering to predict clinical outcomes.