Welcome! I’ve toyed around with the idea of starting a blog for a while, but somehow this go-around finally pushed me past the tipping point, and now that I’ve clicked publish, it’s done.
A bit about me. I recently moved to Boston from Houston, with a year in San Diego in between.
I arrived just in time for a nice fall and my first truly snowy winter!
Boston’s definitely different from other places I’ve lived, with many incredible libraries, universities, meetups. Oh, and the T - I’ve been looking forward to living with public transport for a while, and so far I’m not disappointed.
Some other things tech I’m interested in at the moment and will probably write more about:
Quarto - I’m really liking its flexibility and documentation. This blog was relatively easy to make, and the guides are great.
- I made a presentation with it recently, and while it’s a different process than Google Slides, some functionality was pretty neat.
FastHTML - I haven’t done much web programming in the past, but I’ve recently been making more demos and dashboards for research projects, and I’m hoping to get to use it more.
RL applied to language models, both in the RLHF sense, and in the verifiability sense. R1 is pretty cool, and I’m excited to see where the field goes.
dLLM - I’m always interested in learning about new promising methods. This makes me want to learn more about diffusion models.
duckdb / polars - As a longtime user of pandas, it’s been great, but I do feel myself attracted to other DataFrame / querying solutions, especially as I run into more complex queries and build database connected webapps.