July 5, 2024

Cold Storage

Let’s say you are a filmmaker and, connected to your computer, you have a hard drive holding all the media files and edits for every film you ever

July 1, 2024

How to Track Changes with Claude (or ChatGPT)

One of the more useful applications of today’s LLMs (“AI”) such as Claude or ChatGPT is to provide feedback on your writing. They can function

May 19, 2024

Waking up my Glutes (Part 6) - Perseverance

For those living with chronic conditions, it’s easy to get discouraged. Medical diagnoses such as “osteoarthritis,” or “femoroacetabular

March 17, 2024

Testing Today’s LLMs

I currently have access to all three of the top performing LLMs: ChatGPT 4, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini Advanced. I already subscribe to ChatGPT pro,

March 16, 2024

Lazy Homepage Design

I built my first personal homepage in 1992, soon after it became possible to do such a thing. Sadly, over the years, putting up your own website has

January 2, 2024

The Four Kinds of Exercise

In 2019, I wrote a blog post titled “How I Started Going to the Gym” based on Alex Hutchinson’s book Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? That

December 2, 2023

De-centering the Killers of the Flower Moon

In his novel Tremor, Teju Cole writes: “when a man’s existential satisfaction depends on not knowing something he very much will find a way to not

November 7, 2023

Outlive

I’ve been following Eric Topol since the pandemic and find him to be a very level headed thinker about medicine, so I was surprised when he strongly

November 5, 2023

Musical Philistine

Is music a commodity? Albums were designed to be one. There was a period where people would buy albums and go home and consume them the way they

October 14, 2023

80s Taiwanese Noir

This post started when someone shared this Letterboxd List of Taiwanese Noir Films from the 1980s on Bluesky. Then I read (in the description of

May 13, 2023

On Beyond Twitter

[Skip ahead to Part Two if you just want to read about Bluesky.] Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, the platform has experienced rapid decline. Musk

July 27, 2022

For a Multilingual Taiwan

“Bilingual” in Taiwan means English + Mandarin. Putting aside the way this sidelines Taiwan’s other languages, I’d like to question the emphasis on