A pretty good general introduction to RL. Pretty math heavy and flies through concepts, but a good crash course.

Another concept from Anathem. Basically, a group of archivists who claim there are no new ideas.

A quote from Anathem. I think I agree but I’m not exactly sure how to explain it.

Interesting product, but mostly I like the designs on the page. Inspired me to do a redesign for this blog!

I’ve been implementing PPO on some gymnasium problems. It’s pretty entertaining and challenging. I’ll do a writeup on it soon hopefully.

Interesting synopsis of Improvement of the Mind by Dr. Isaac Watts. Some intentional guidance for learning and being.

Highly recommended RL textbook available for free online.

Another item I was hoping to make an article about. Using this, I created a 2x3’ 3d printed kumiko. A little janky but pretty cool. It’s a pretty amazing setup regardless.

Now you can download a speaker instead of just your music! A project on my todo list.

Cool resource that Jacob shared. It goes into the depths of DIY networking related tools. Routers, own server, self managed email.. etc. Homesteading for computers

I thought this was completely open source but I believe just the software/data is? Or maybe just the data? It’s pretty cool, tho. You can control it with club movement which is pretty noval in the space.

“PufferLib is a fast and sane reinforcement learning library that can train tiny, super-human models in seconds.” I am thinking of using this as a start to get back into RL. It’s kind of openAI gym combined with RL tools for easy exploration. Seems pretty cool. Github

This was pretty interesting. This was largely a discussion around the book “FilterWorld”. It sounds like the author had many views that I’ve shared in the past. It felt like she was addressing me to some extent. I’ve been interested in the idea of be your own algorithm and resonate with much of her arguments. I might make this a longer post, but tldr: social media and content creators aren’t inherently bad. There’s tons of good stuff, better than ever before. It’s the platforms that are toxic. The internet is still an amazing place.

This was mentioned by the next link “be your own algorithm”. I haven’t read it but it’s a pretty short story about ai.

This was the focus on “be your own algorithm”. Not sure I want to read based on the video, but seems interesting for discussions around social media, the internet, and culture

a website that hosts a bunch of other small “tasteful” websites.

This has been a reoccuring theme in my internet usage lately. Trying to stay off of the major platforms (facebook, instagram, x, etc..). My desire to build out my personal site has been largely based on this.

This was shared by Jacob as well. Kind of like a coding bootcamp but you work on whatever you want. Sort of a guild of people who want social reinforcement for extended technical sabbaticals.

The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that forms part of the Indian epic Mahabharata. Presented as a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and the god Krishna, who serves as his charioteer, it explores profound themes of duty (dharma), righteous action, devotion, and self-realization. The Gita is revered as a spiritual and philosophical guide, offering insights into how to live a life of purpose, balance, and inner peace amid moral and emotional conflict.

A short article JC shared with me about how managers should help prevent burnout. Being bored isn’t helpful for anyone. I am definitely bored at work.

A massive project for providing various roadmaps to different technical tracks. I am interested in this for RL, but also the concept as a whole. I want to add another tab to this blog for my own skill-tree/track. Help give some visual representation for what I’m moving toward.

A service that Jacob shared that aims to teach the core of software and computers. Understand it all.

I’m currently reading Behave by Sapolsky and this is another interesting one that I haven’t read. Seems to be a biological approach to why we make decisions.

A completely open source launch monitor. Not sure it’s worth the effort or not, but very cool. Could be a fun electronics project at some point. Github

Shane said one of his facorite books.

A llm model with no guardrails. Praised for good story telling.

Some articles about the system written by one of my previous managers.