Today three people reminded me that it's the last day of the quarter. They reflect on it like a finished sprint, entering the "holiday quarter" with joy. I'm still not used to it. For anyone who wants something from me, I'll be just as available as always!

Geneva suddenly shows a clear bimodal distribution of hotel stay prices. Could this be caused by two large wealth groups coexisting with each other?

I am amazed by the swag box Roblox gave me at their AI privacy dinner. Thank you for having me!

My previous boss deleted the whole company from Linkedin, and now I have a random grey entry on my page where I spent 2.5 years tinkering

Making a lateral career move. Worked at application level a while, now going deeper into infrastructure. I love computer vision and giving it up needs purpose. The insight: video models are as big as LLMs. Joining a team for LLM training infra in RL. That's the move

Crazy day at NeurIPS

There are definitely benefits to centralized banks, and the money is not "yours". At least in the US, they can protect your interests. If another big corporation took money from you, you are able to dispute. I had a situation with Booking com ($2,500), and my bank returned funds

5 things that are better on Android than on iPhone: 1. There's no notification flood 2. Built-in keyboard knows "Im" means "I'm" 3. Google Maps is not always in night mode, following the system setting 4. Download and install APKs 5. Install actual Chrome app, and add AdGuard

Is there any code completion plugin in VSCode (when you press TAB to accept a suggestion)? Something that's close to Cursor in terms of latency and understanding. Github Copilot sucks, it can't even pick up the typos in variable names

There's something to it when you have spring in January

Two things about housing I think about often: If you buy a place for cash it's likely a small portion of your net worth, but if you get into debt it's likely gonna be 100% House prices seem designed for 30-year payoff. Add 50-year mortgages and prices will adjust accordingly

OpenClaw + NEAR AI Cloud: You can now run the internet's favorite new AI agent with cryptographic privacy guarantees 🦞 🛡️ Hardware-level security. Verifiable privacy. User-owned by design.

Do your own research. The friends of mine told me that the "Book of Mormon" is a cool satirical musical, written by the creators of South Park. Without extra research I went to see it, and it's a complete disaster

It's interesting how LLM-serving companies, by launching both a consumer product (chat) and a developer product (API) early on, set a good tone for everyone to release an API sooner. Unlike when companies like Instagram or Booking started