How LLM architecture evolved from RNNs to Transformers to Mixture of Experts, told as a chain of problems and fixes, with one example sentence carried through every stage.
Notes from completing the Day Skipper sailing course — working through chartwork, compass theory, tides, and collision regulations as a new blog category.
Why output-based hobbies — the kind you build with, not just consume — are the only ones that compound over time.
Why fake work isn't a personality flaw but a structural outcome of knowledge work being nearly impossible to measure directly.
A personal essay drawing a direct parallel between how LLMs are trained — pretraining, fine-tuning, RLHF, emergence — and the stages of a human life.
How the learning rate — one number in gradient descent — decides whether a neural network converges smoothly or blows up, explained through the one line of code that sets it.
Reference page scaffold for I Ching Hexagram 64, Before Completion.
A practical reference page for I Ching Hexagram 63: After Completion.
A practical reference page for I Ching Hexagram 62: Preponderance of the Small.
A practical reference page for I Ching Hexagram 61: Inner Truth.