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2026

The Bear Case for Frontier AI Labsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
The AI Productivity Lieoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2026
Don’t Be A Tourist In Your Own Code Baseoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026

2023

Why Do Large Language Models Hallucinate?original ↗
14 May 2023
A Non-Technical Explanation of ChatGPT: Deep Learningoriginal ↗
9 May 2023
A Non-Technical Explanation of ChatGPToriginal ↗
4 May 2023
The Parable of the Physics Professororiginal ↗
22 Apr 2023
A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of AI and Deep Learningoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2023
A Practical Introduction to Polars for Python Data Processingoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2023
Blog Technical Setuporiginal ↗
17 Feb 2023

2022

Everything Sad is Untrue: Book Revieworiginal ↗
27 Dec 2022
Parable of the Sower: Book Revieworiginal ↗
27 Dec 2022
Banshees of Inisherin: Revieworiginal ↗
27 Dec 2022

2013

"Python itertools.groupby : a clearer example"original ↗
16 Jan 2013

2012

"Undo last git commit / merge"original ↗
27 Jul 2012
"Efficiently finding large (size and dimension) images"original ↗
9 May 2012
"Hands On With the BlackBerry Playbook: Actually Quite Nice"original ↗
27 Feb 2012
"SFTP: Specifying Port, SSH key"original ↗
23 Feb 2012
"Student Loans Are Killing Entrepreneurship"original ↗
15 Feb 2012
"How To Dynamically Import Python Modules"original ↗
11 Jan 2012

2011

"How To Scan Multiple Pages Into a Single PDF on OS X"original ↗
15 Nov 2011
"Titanium Studio: How To View Android Log Messages"original ↗
15 Aug 2011
"Easy way to view cookies in Chrome"original ↗
27 Jul 2011
"Uniforms"original ↗
4 Mar 2011

2010

"Future of Work and New Dial Tones"original ↗
8 Dec 2010
"Generating static html from markdown in python"original ↗
29 Nov 2010
"Retention Bonuses Don’t Work"original ↗
19 Nov 2010
"mo.com Interviews Me"original ↗
8 Nov 2010
"How To Run A Command On Multiple Linux Boxes"original ↗
29 Oct 2010
"Art"original ↗
23 Jul 2010
"How To Be A Good Participant On A Panel: Disagree"original ↗
4 Mar 2010
"Django: Using The Permission System"original ↗
19 Feb 2010
"Hyper Competitive Sleep Losing Entrepreneurs?"original ↗
31 Jan 2010
"Django-mptt: Tree Storage in Django: A Brief Overview"original ↗
24 Jan 2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox: See Itoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2010
"Feels Like A New Stage Of The Web"original ↗
9 Jan 2010
"Move Files Older Than X Days To Another Directory"original ↗
8 Jan 2010

2009

"How To List Files In A Package in Ubuntu"original ↗
15 Nov 2009
"How To Enable Vi Syntax Highlighting In Ubuntu"original ↗
28 Oct 2009
"The Power of Stories In Shaping Views of Cultures"original ↗
17 Oct 2009
"Eclipse + PyDev : I Recommend It"original ↗
11 Oct 2009
"How Interviewing Job Applicants Has Changed"original ↗
11 Oct 2009
"Yahoo Mail WTF?!"original ↗
28 Sept 2009
"What Should I Read Next?"original ↗
16 Feb 2009
"Another Python Convert"original ↗
13 Feb 2009
"Ctrl-Q, My New Favorite Eclipse Hotkey"original ↗
13 Feb 2009
"San Jose San Fran Next Week, Drop Me A Line If You Want To Meet"original ↗
3 Feb 2009
"On Concurrency, Threads, and Python"original ↗
1 Feb 2009
Books Cannot Be Ownedoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2009
"Facebook: Nice Place To Visit, But I Wouldn’t Want To Live There"original ↗
25 Jan 2009
"Hackintosh Accomplished"original ↗
25 Jan 2009
"Protect The Constitution Of The United States"original ↗
20 Jan 2009
"Queueing Benefits"original ↗
19 Jan 2009
Parandism: Two Man Joboriginal ↗
13 Jan 2009
"San Diego Hadoop User Group Starting"original ↗
4 Jan 2009

2008

"Obama Logo Design"original ↗
14 Dec 2008
"Cloud Computing Hadoop Slides"original ↗
20 Nov 2008
"Blogs Are Becoming Traditional Magazines"original ↗
18 Nov 2008
"Python Dot Notation Dictionary Access"original ↗
24 Oct 2008
"Python Scripts For Dumping Oracle Data And Loading Onto Hadoop DFS"original ↗
22 Oct 2008
"GMail Contact Groups: Add By Tag / Search"original ↗
20 Oct 2008
"RESTful URL Design For Search And Collections"original ↗
16 Oct 2008
"Yahoo Live Surprisingly Good"original ↗
16 Oct 2008
"Fremium Works If You Do It Right"original ↗
15 Oct 2008
"Python Script For Finding And Removing Duplicate Files"original ↗
15 Oct 2008
"Small Biz Minimal CRM Thoughts"original ↗
15 Oct 2008
"Access Python Dictionary Keys As Properties"original ↗
13 Oct 2008
"Beanstalkd / Python Basic Tutorial"original ↗
12 Oct 2008
"Setting Up Beanstalkd on Ubuntu for Python"original ↗
12 Oct 2008
"UCSD Hack Week: I’ll Be There"original ↗
12 Oct 2008
"Back Up No More?"original ↗
10 Oct 2008
"Thankful For The Stupidity of Virus Authors"original ↗
10 Oct 2008
"Stackoverflow: Surprisingly Good Source of Technical Answers"original ↗
9 Oct 2008
"The Big Picture Adopts ReaderScroll Navigation"original ↗
7 Oct 2008
"Depressed"original ↗
2 Oct 2008
"Nookiller"original ↗
2 Oct 2008
"Happy: Hadoop with Python (Jython)"original ↗
24 Sept 2008
"Best Way To Automatically Convert Flickr Images to FaceBook Albums?"original ↗
22 Sept 2008
"Productivity Tip: Forget The Power Cord"original ↗
17 Sept 2008
"Disco: Erlang/Python Based Map-Reduce"original ↗
15 Sept 2008
"Live Maps Rocks"original ↗
15 Sept 2008
"Already Using Chrome Regularly"original ↗
9 Sept 2008
"Drizzle: MySQL Based Slim / Cloud-Oriented DB"original ↗
5 Sept 2008
"Python Generator Expressions"original ↗
4 Sept 2008
"Trying Google Chrome, So Far So Good"original ↗
2 Sept 2008
"Google Chrome: Based on WebKit instead of Mozilla"original ↗
1 Sept 2008
"Javascript Inheritance"original ↗
1 Sept 2008
"Being Smarter About Car Repair"original ↗
27 Aug 2008
"Google Reader Style Hotkeys For Image Viewing"original ↗
25 Aug 2008
"Three"original ↗
25 Aug 2008
"Startup VP Technology / CTO Opportunites"original ↗
23 Aug 2008
"Terrorists: There Is No Profile"original ↗
22 Aug 2008
"TraceMonkey: It’s A Big Deal"original ↗
22 Aug 2008
"Awesome"original ↗
21 Aug 2008
"A Beautiful Python Twitter API"original ↗
18 Aug 2008
"Sickening Olympic Coverage"original ↗
18 Aug 2008
"Sweet Sleep, Part Deux"original ↗
17 Aug 2008
"Trying Mercurial"original ↗
17 Aug 2008
"Amazing Video Enhancement / Transformation Technique"original ↗
16 Aug 2008
"Taste Vectors: OpenTaste"original ↗
18 Jul 2008