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"Our p99 is fine" and "one user in six has a bad time" are the same sentence.

Policywerk builds reinforcement learning from scratch in plain Python, standard library only, no NumPy, no PyTorch.

Most reinforcement learning code starts after the interesting part.

The last and two most interesting models in the modelwerk series turned out to be ones that came after the transformer.

For the longest time children stood inside looms lifting weights to allow the thread to go through on the command of the weaver.

A colleague asked me a deceptively simple question recently—what does it feel like when you are working with agents?

Claude and I recently ran a security audit on the tars code base (more about tars here).

Like many, I've been tracking the improvements to models for programming.

Steve Yegge has been writing long blog posts about the software industry for twenty years.

“There ought to be some mechanical way of doing this job, something on the principle of the Jacquard loom, whereby holes in a card regulate the pattern to be woven.” — Dr.

An organisation should be as large as necessary and as small as possible.

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed in 2024, not neccesarily books published that year.

In this post we’ll cover how to get multiple machine learning models running on an Apple Mac using Ollama for model management, open-webui for interactive chat, and stable-diffusion-webui for image generation.

At the end of 2019, I posted a book list for software engineers new to machine learning grouped into four areas: Machine Learning & Algorithms, Tools & Frameworks, Data Science & Analysis, and Companion Mathematics.

I’ve mentioned more than once how effective I find org-mode as a productivity tool and organiser, without really explaining why.

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed and learned from in 2021, not all of which are books published that year.

American Icon.

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed and learned from in 2020, not all of which are books published that year.

“You've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.

Software engineers as Individual Contributors [1] are regularly asked to tackle problems that are transient in nature, or support some domain of interest for a period of time.