A study of 270 patients diagnosed with Long COVID found that 53% of patients had response times that were 2 standard deviations slower than the control mean after controlling for age-related decline and comorbidities.

Inspired by (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret, I thought it would be interesting to do the same for my startup.

The needs stack is a way of describing what a customer is trying to do when they are buying.

There are many packages for completions in Emacs. I recently switched over from ido and helm to the MOVEC stack: Marginalia, Orderless, Vertico, Embark, Consult.

I read The mistakes we make the second time by Harry Glaser.

Embark for Emacs seems like a useful way to further customize Emacs actions (M-x).

I was thinking the other day that there are few objects that I use somewhat regularly that are more than 10 years old.

In How to Live an Asymmetric Life, Graham Weaver talks about how to confront fear and get the most out of your life to a class of soon-to-be business school graduates.

There doesn’t seem to be a good web-based query editor for an Amazon RDS hosted postgres.

There are many theories put forth to explain human consciousness and experiments are running to test them.

I want to better utilize AI tools in my day-to-day work.

An English physician once described radium as “the unknown god”. This was at a time where radiation and it’s effects were still being discovered.

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I was watching an interview with Kobe Bryant where he talks about his workouts and approach to basketball.

The internet is not some other thing, separate from life, it is an abstraction that is very real.

The most reliable way to stop procrastinating is to get started.

Asteroid City, Wes Anderson’s latest movie, is a movie about a play where the plot never quite make sense.

It’s difficult to work with someone who always seems to be aggrieved.

I used to feel like asking a list of discovery questions to qualify a prospect during a call was awkward and not useful.

Imagine a busy executive trying to work with multiple people. They’re coming in and out of meetings and working on several projects all day long.

What you intend to do with your notes is the thing that motivates you to take notes in the first place.

This chart, adapted from xkcd, tells you the amount of time saved over 5 years based on how much time you are able to shave off of the task.

OpenAI GPT models (GPT 4 at time of writing) do not accurately or consistently parse or manipulate dates.

Self querying by date using LangChain doesn’t work well. The default schema used for parsing natural language into the internal representation of langchain for querying a vector store does not work with dates because it uses the wrong type (it tries to use a dict but you can only filter using integers or strings).