11 Jan 2024
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life ∗
choices ∗
For better or for worse, I was born with two X chromosomes.
I generally try to not think about my gender day-to-day. It’s relevant when I’m looking at cute dresses, or considering how to frame myself for a dating profile, but it’s not a detail that I want to think about on a normal basis. My gender — in an ideal world — would have no bearing on my professional ambitions, or the adventures that I seek to have, or the goals that I hope to achieve.
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13 Aug 2023
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llm ∗
ml ∗
gen-ai ∗
startup-scene ∗
For a tl;dr see the Conclusion
Intro
There are a few things that have felt “obvious” to me for the past a year and change about the GenAI space, especially LLMs. A lot of it was probably not obvious to folks in general, but via working on chatbots before it resurged again and kicking pretraining GPUs before ChatGPT for OPT175 I got to see and think through a few things before the hype cycle started.
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01 Aug 2023
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creative ∗
project_ideas ∗
funemployment ∗
As I mention in my
badge post
I already had a quit by day for a while. Because of that, I could plan. Or at least, dump ideas into a notebook.
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Section of a notebook that I started some point 2020 or early 2021. |
Not going to list all of them but I figured it’d be worth putting the better ones somewhere, plus some new ones that’ve come up in the time since.
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31 Jul 2023
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meta ∗
creative ∗
art ∗
I made myself a design for a business card today.
Update Aug 1, 2023: Figured I’d move the write-up here, since there’s a good chance I might keep iterating on this in the future and don’t wanna spam the qr code page.
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07 Jul 2023
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facebook ∗
facebook-badge-post ∗
life ∗
funemployment ∗
choices ∗
Note Jul 10, 2023: Made some minor edits to this after initial post; see this PR
The Motivational Things
Why?
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