Kian.WTF

For Santa Barbara Burrito Week 2026, I’m weighing variety, convenience, and excitement.

Santa Barbara is having it’s first ever coffee week this week.

There’s been a lot of money spent on AI.

There was a ~7 year old child watching a video in front of me at full volume.

I like making good cheap food.

I love clams.

This is the set of restaurants for which I am the most personally excited about during Santa Barbara burger week.

So this problem turned out to be easier than we even thought.

Not much more to it than that Websites and blogs were already shoehorn images into content as if they are a requirement to publish on the internet.

I experimented with LLM coding for a bit but quickly scaled back my usage to only niche use cases.

So I got blocked by Reddit at a network level.

Cream cheese is great on a bagel; it’s a pretty sorry replacement for caulk.

One of my favorite parts of my job is that I am able to spend 1 day per week focusing on applying our hierarchical mixture modeling technology to genomic applications.

AI companies really make 180 degree shifts overnight.

This is the set of restaurants for which I am the most personally excited about during Santa Barbara burrito week.

This is the set of restaurants for which I am the most personally excited about during Santa Barbara sandwich week.

SB Burger Week Tiers Tags Legend * V: upscale vibe * C: chilled vibe * +: Easy bike from oak park Tier 1 Restaruant Tags Hours Notes Intermezza V+ Tu-Sa: 5-9 La Paloma V+ We-Su: 11:30-2:30, 5-630 wagyu SBFC C M-Sa: 1-7 guac, 8 Blackbird V+ Tu-Sa: 5-10 Gala

A single pixel can break neural image models.