Some thoughts on the novel: its strengths and weaknesses, why it's so different from other first contact novels. I'd love to hear people's views of the novel.
New trains for Amtrak in the US. Better than before, but still a long way behind the best in Europe and Asia. The manufacturing process seems crazily manual.
Some thoughts on why AI-assisted learning of APIs doesn't really work and why it's better to hand code stuff if you're learning. Love to hear what people think.
Weather forecasting sites are unnecessarily hard to use. The NWS data is free and easy to access, so I built an app with AI that gives me what I want. If I can do this so easily, what other markets will be disrupted?
I've gathered some data on how the price of single malt Scotch whiskey varies with age (some 50 year olds retail over $30,000). I've dug into the dynamics of the industry to find out why!
Here's what I found out trying out small language models (SLMs) on my local machine: they're good, but you need a powerful machine to run them properly.
It turns out, the Poisson distribution is great for modeling football goals at the league level, but not so much at the club level, despite what's been said on football modeling sites.
I built a chart-heavy data science app using code gen and modern deployment tools. I describe the process and the pitfalls. With the right skills, data scientists can build apps very quickly.