I started to wonder about when the Microsoft coding teams will start having one of their code improvement agents running on open source software on GitHub to suggest improvements by pull requests. Imagine if we had that type of learning agent improving and refining open source projects all the time to make things better and to initiate pull requests at some threshold of contribution level. This could be used as well to help find and fix known security vulnerabilities in repos that are posted to GitHub. We could also have a refinement layer for builds and branches that as code is produced does some additional deep research on the code and improvement suggestions. A whole world of possible GitHub and code repository improvements are going to be arriving soon based on what is now possible. It’s a huge door that is opening to really improve overall code quality and to make really big contributions across the open source code projects that make things run across a lot of foundational technological layers.
I’m building up my collection of 4K Blu-ray science fiction movie collections. Fragmentation of content has meant that streaming is just not what it was at one point. I’d rather have a collection of movies and own them to watch them at my leisure. That is not a common or typically shared opinion about modern entertainment content. Things ended up getting off to a slow start today. I did not even really start writing until just before the very late Colorado Avalanche game tonight. These late start games are hard given that I’m going to fall asleep before the end of the game. It’s one of those wake up the next day and find out the final score sort of situations.
In typical ChatGPT fashion I did not manage to get a single working .ipynb file out of it today. I hit my analysis limit and I’m going to have to wait until tomorrow to give it another old fashioned college try. Earlier today I watched this OpenAI YouTube video blog or relaxed video press release about how they are building and delivering a deep research agent. I generally hope this thing does a lot better job at producing deeper answers. My curiosity about it would be if it takes 15 minutes or more to produce some type of .ipynb file and it will just take a long time to produce a broken file.
The other thing I ended up reading today was this code project about the ah-ha moment from the DeepSeek research efforts or simply put, “Clean, minimal, accessible reproduction of DeepSeek R1-Zero.” You can find the code for here: https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero
Today was one of those days where we moved 600 cases of cookies. That was a rather intense set of adventures that took up a solid chunk of the day. Tonight I’m watching the Paramount+ movie Section 31. You can apparently buy it on Blu-ray. Somebody probably should have found a way to have it open without so much exposition pulling characters together like somebody asked ChatGPT to merge a trimmed down Ocean’s style plot with some edgy Star Trek themes. I’m not entirely sure some or all of this Section 31 movie was not written by or in partnership with some sort of LLM being involved.
My Nespresso Vertuo coffee maker had been stuck in the descaling mode for the last 2 days. This was highly disappointing given that I really enjoy having two shots of espresso every morning. I put maybe 10 total full refills of water into the machine and let them run within the descaling mode into a red plastic bowl. Weirdly enough the process of refilling the water and the indicator turning red from overheating just happened over and over again. The solution ended up being only filling up the water reservoir with a small cup a few times in a row and eventually getting the machine to open, closing it and pressing down on the handle button combo, and after that it went back to regular operations. It was a very frustrating situation. I could not just sit and watch the machine malfunction for hours on end. To be clear the engineers working for Nespresso product design should have made an actual physical switch that said descaling mode and if you wanted to turn that off you could switch it back to regular operations. The current weird combo of clicking things and reading color combinations is beyond difficult to use and from reading the comments of many frustrated users online the current design is not very effective.
Oh my goodness; that Tuesday vibe is just everywhere today. I’m already thinking about lunch at the very start of the day which is never really a good sign for things. My primary breakfast food is Huel and that has worked out well enough. This Tuesday turned out to be extra full of Tuesday vibes. That is just how it goes sometimes. Watching the Colorado Avalanche and the Jayhawks are both options tonight. Both games are actually on ESPN+ which is odd to have happened at the same time. The games actually overlap so I will probably be jumping around between the two games. Streaming service fragmentation for sports viewing has gotten out of control.
I updated the WordPress theme header and footer to be more centered in style to make them work better across multiple types of views. Based on a couple of initial tests I’m pleased with how the design turned out. The design is probably locked in for the foreseeable future and with the drama surrounding WordPress who knows if this will be the last ever major theme release.
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.
Teams at both Apple and Samsung are working on non-invasive glucose monitors in watch form which is exciting. That will be a product that helps a lot of people. It will be a very useful application of technology to provide real time information to people. I think we are going to see a lot of wearable health technology going forward. People seem to have an appetite for it and the technology is now reaching a place where things are becoming possible that could be really interesting.
Yesterday morning, I took the time to scroll all the way back to the start of my Google Keep feed this morning. Right now I am way back in my notes from 2013 to 2017. I’m going to share some of the more interesting ones. A lot of them just got archived in Google Keep. Very few were just deleted.
Writing like a memory jukebox that produces one story at a time
What is the utility of all the reminders of a certain day image or notes from agents?
Write a modern treatise on society based on expanding observation from a single person’s perspective to a wider social net
Where is all the innovation happening? Does that change over time?
Has social media fragmentation changed local business marketing?
A really weird setting of what should have been an asynchronous meeting because the person is not really ready to fully participate. Person is so busy that they can only engage to be critical and ask questions but are not ready for the second wave of questions or to provide any additional context.
Organizing and sustaining decentralized communities of interest. AKA Community organizing revisited: The basics of organizing are pretty simple. Fundamentally this is a treatise on how to bring people together for a common purpose. A community is a diverse ecosystem that has a number of stakeholders and competing interests. Initially building an organizational map of the community takes time and access to key stakeholders. A shared purpose toward a common outcome is the basic building block of an organically built sustainable community. Organizing decentralized communities requires more than basic political methods. Political organizing and fundraising has become more targeted, but at the same time it has become less personal. A political contributor may make donations and read emails from a group without any personal relationship with the organization. Follow up sections: Mapping the networks, Triangulation strategy, Digital vs. Personal, Managing the message, Building frameworks, and Sustainability vs. Outcomes.
Civility’s commons: an uncommon civility
Do people really trust a user group to define the future of a product?
Questions about how faculty at colleges become a commodity. Does this demonstrate an oversupply of potential faculty or some other change?
Survey fatigue breaking the polling industry
Influencing the public mind: a study of multichannel influence and the public mind
Build an economic model using the original Google search algorithm
Revisit sentiment mining paper
Some of the things that got stored in Google Keep are things that were not a part of my backlog system or really anything beyond a note taken at the time. The context is now gone and some of the notes are really short. Most of my notes are a few words and that is it in Google Keep. A few of them are longer like the ones above. If I went back to trying to write 3,000 words or more per day, then it would be a great prompt library to help use the current context to evaluate the prompt and produce content. Honestly, none of the bullets above caused the spark of innovation to get me to write about them in a meaningful way.
Sometimes we look out to see what is ahead of us and try to understand what is coming or going to happen next. It’s that big set of questions that helps us position ourselves to strive forward toward something. Within that path forward some things seem to be better than others. We can probably tread water without striving forward for some time, but nothing remains that stationary. It just does not play out that way. During the course of my deeper thoughts about the perfect possible path forward I started to think about adopting a strategy of total absorb.
To that end maybe just maybe it really is time to activate the total absorb mode and begin the process of being a true information sponge. Being a lifelong learner has to be about both the accumulation of knowledge and the ability to pick up new and complex things. We are moving toward a different scenario for code development and software building. Things are changing. One thing that seems not to be changing is this podcast I listened to about streaming sports content.
Maybe it’s time to revisit where to jump back into academic journal writing. That is where it all circles back to as a jumping off point. It’s maybe time to think about that and what it would take to really begin anew within that space.
Nothing of note got written yesterday. The words and I just did not get along. It was a day where things just did not line up for the creation of some prose. Tonight we have both a Kansas Jayhawks game and an Avalanche game. That should be a recipe for a little bit of time to engage in some writing. Right now the MacBook Air is being protected by that Glitty Padauk themed case. It has increased the weight of the device, but I’m getting used to making the switch between my desk and the sofa. Part of the writing experience seems to happen toward the end of the day during the course of watching some live sports. I’m going to try to engage in a little bit of deep thinking.
My 60 minutes of treadmill time today did not go by very quickly. Even with the Jayhawks on the television the time just seemed to linger. I don’t have any links to share for today. It is a day of pure thought and reason without any media that needs to be shared. We have reached the point in the writing process where I have already staged the future weblog post. That means anything written from this point forward is going to have to be pasted in over the original post from Google Docs over into WordPress. I’m still getting constant articles in my Google News feed about the actual drama over at WordPress that has been occurring. That is a story that will at some point get dramatized into some sort of theatrical content.
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