I have a single friend in his late 30s right now. Mega-millionaire. Doing whatever he wants. He's happy! He always asks me "where are you going next" and I always respond "nowhere, I just want to be home with my kid." And he looks at me like I'm CRAZY. He tries to empathize, but

building simple vector database and sharing updates along the way! --- vector-db changelog 01 - basic insert + query path (brute force search) - testing harness (784dim x 10k searches) - inverted file indexing (IVFFLAT) github.com/mnpw/vector-db

"'but other people have written about this my ideas aren't necessary' - i suggest thinking of yourself like a local supplier not a global supplier"

november 25 agenda in - big blocks of text - presence of friends and family - warm ups - ocean waves out - pressure to perform - shopping as a cope - bad quality food

using poke like my personal Anki just as the god intended Interaction

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"it takes a certain confident abandon and power to just swoop down riding those seeds (of creativity) to the tangible. you'll have amazing things there, but you need the unquenchable desire to see them become plants"

someday I will write about being illegibly effective, mystical yet defined, incongruous and commanding. in that essay I will urge you to diverge periodically and master convergence and i will ask you to flow in the realm in between.

addressed to the 6 people who like my tweets: this is my village and i am its bard, this is my church and i its pastor

vLLM is looking like a great gateway from systems engineering into learning the intricacies of LLM workings. implementing a sketch KV cache manager would a fun little project!

CXO should be able to play all 4 quadrants, Principals any 3, and Seniors any 2 (figure from Scaling People)

HOLY SHIT

vector-db changelog 02 - local embedding generator for text inserts (h/t Qdrant fastembed-rs) - basic cli with benchmarking mode - fix benchmarking logic for perf metric calculation (460 QPS now) github.com/mnpw/vector-db

note to self: asking Claude to make a first attempt at it is an great fix-procrastination hack opens simpler threads for thinking and reduces activation energy for the task

is anyone going to Ben böhmer bangalore show?

a company is a very delicate thing and it demands the care one would give to building a place of prayer — because that is exactly what a company is, a place of prayer