Archive - Local Maxima

The wrong kind of self-sufficiency

Starting from the bottom is nothing to brag about

Mar 28 •

February 2024

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean all have distinct types of writing systems: the varieties of "alphabets"

Feb 19 •

How I talk to those above me

Rules for hierarchy

Feb 17 •

November 2023

Cheap Model → Big Model Design

In machine learning, for large systems with a lot of users, or difficult questions that require a ton of number-crunching, there’s a dilemma:

Nov 19, 2023 •

Dog vets vs. Cow vets

My buddies and I were at Cuzzy’s last Friday - packed all the time, if you get a table you hold onto it for dear life, full of drunks, everyone is…

Nov 9, 2023 •

September 2023

East Lake Street

I lived on East Lake Street for a year in 2008, a block or two from Powderhorn Park. I moved in on a Sunday at the end of May and after I finished I…

Sep 26, 2023 •

Rating corporate jargon

In the corporate world we have many special phrases. Now I rate them.

Sep 20, 2023 •

Sep 16, 2023 •

LoRAs make fine-tuning generative models way cheaper

Small, modular intelligence injectables for generative models.

Sep 15, 2023 •

June 2023

Equipping Large Language Models with your own data

Breathing vital essence into what was once dead text

Jun 8, 2023 •

May 2023

How to study Go

for influence and profit

May 5, 2023 •

January 2022

Activated Charcoal for Hangover Prevention: Way more than you wanted to know

Activated charcoal is charcoal that has been heated up a whole lot and then washed really hard, by water or acid. This process is what "activates" it…

Jan 10, 2022 •

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