My blog posts are mostly just my thoughts at the time. It’s not a prompt based model generation using some type of system to generate the content. This in the end is content written the old fashioned way by an author at a keyboard making the prose happen. Beyond writing every day I spend time reading academic articles. Within that mission, yesterday, I ended up reading that DeepSeek article on my iPad and it turned out I had to turn it sideways to be able to actually read the text [1]. Sometimes I can read articles in the vertical mode, but the ones that are single columns end up needing that extra viewing space. It was a pretty easy to read article and it felt like it might have been written by or at least heavily edited by the very model they were explaining. Years ago I used to print articles and keep them in stacks on my desk and really all over my office. That was a different time and I’m not sure the same process would even really work for me anymore. I tend to read things on my computer screen and now on the iPad. Key ones get saved to my cloud storage files so I can easily get back to them in the version that I read at the time.

I’m considering spending some time selecting a couple of topics and writing solid literature reviews. It feels like that might be a good way to get back into the habit of crafting article style blocks of content that are a lot more than a simple research note. It’s totally possible to build a collection of research notes and compile or distill that content into something more substantial. Based on my writing plan each morning on the weekends I have time to work on that type of effort.

Footnotes:
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948