Henry’s Weblog

More absurdities from my job at Big Defense Firm.

In 2008 I started my second job at a big defense firm.

Air France’s pilot school was down to one working station; if it broke, a critical evaluation tool would be lost.

Last year I posted about aichat, an LLM command line shell.

Statisticians love the normal distribution; it’s familiar, and reassuring.

Via negativa is the idea that it’s better to solve problems by removing than by adding.

Ametora explores how postwar Japan absorbed, reinterpreted, and eventually elevated American style.

A mathematical mind isn’t a gift.

This year I read 31 books.

The Dream Machine narrates the creation of personal computers and the Internet from World War II until the early 90’s.

I read a fair bit of Stoic literature like Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius.