Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.

449 bits, and counting.

Found this old post while rummaging through digital archives and notes:

Our daughter had three firsts in one day: went swimming, went swinging in a bucket, and sipped whole milk. What a day.

Makes me feel nostalgic.

Since I had no CAD experience, it was also an excellent chance to learn hardware design, electronics, and million of other skills I never thought I'd need to know.

Bayleaf Wireless Keyboard

This is so inspiring.

TimesFM-3 has 330 million parameters and is pre-trained on a real-world and synthetic time-series corpus comprising more than 1 trillion time points. Building on the efficiency and zero-shot generalization of its predecessors, TimesFM-3 adds robust support for complex multivariate scenarios in a zero-shot manner. It can jointly predict multiple coevolving time series, capturing dependencies that improve overall accuracy without requiring task-specific fine-tuning.

Google Research

You ask me to stay. But there's a million reasons to leave.

Around 2014, I was obsessed with building a collection of point and shoot film cameras. The wishlist: Contax T3, Hexar AF, Leica Minilux, Nikon 35ti, Yashica T4. I never actually built out the collection. I went after interchangeable lens 35mm instead, and never quite caught the medium format bug. I still plan on shooting every one of these at some point!

There's nothing like driving through Big Sur in the winter. I love turning the heat up inside the car and rolling the windows down. The coastal drafts create an incredible temperature collision, all along my favorite stretch of coastline in the world.

Noel Gallagher and an acoustic guitar, nothing else. Strip away the wall of noise and the song still stands on its own. I keep coming back to how little it actually needs.

I've been procrastinating on editing my travel photos from Japan. Probably a big weekend push to lay out another photo book.

Does programming language loyalty survive when we're generating most, if not all, of our code? Either it matters more than ever or it stops mattering entirely. The question makes me nostalgic. For more than a decade I checked the TIOBE Index and went to language meetups every month. It feels like the end of an era!