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The point of hard problems When OpenAI announced that one of its internal models had proposed a solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, it sounded like a big deal.

As someone who is as interested in the organizational forces of failures as the technical ones, I find studying incidents — and root cause analysis generally — highly meaningful.

Your harness, your memory , from the LangChain blog, argues that memory is a critical part of the harness, so anyone selling harness without memory baked into it is creating a lock-in that's not…

On Performing, Being, and the "Minds" We're Building Claude Mythos Anthropic's latest model, Claude Mythos, made some headlines recently.

As I complete 9 years at OpenTable this month, I've been reflecting on the most productive time I've spent here — my time building and maturing the Hospitality line of business.

My brother recently told me about an incident at his neighborhood park.

Jamin Ball's latest Clouded Judgment piece argues that tokens are the core consumption primitive of the AI era — the same way compute was for cloud — and that the biggest infrastructure winners…

A few weeks ago, while reflecting on the importance of data models in a product, inspired by Matt Brown’s post, Your data model is your destiny , I became convinced that data is the source of truth…

A few weeks ago, I read an article — A new navigation paradigm — that felt relatable, yet unsettling in a way I couldn’t fully articulate.

NOTE: This article is also published in Metadata Weekly , a community newsletter for all things data and AI.

researching the perfect opening is not writing the thing organizing your notes again is not writing the thing developing your writing “system” is not writing the thing staring at a blank page is not…

I completed writing performance reviews for my team yesterday and I used very little LLMs for it.

I had purchased four books to devour during the Christmas holidays as a way to recharge, learn and get ready for the next year.

We have many names to describe personal tools.

I was thinking about the acquisition of Bun by Anthropic and wondering what it really signals.

My kids and ChatGPT were born around the same time.

As I turned 36 this week, I set a random, somewhat ambitious goal for myself - to run 36mi in a week.

I'm excited to share FlightStream 🚀, an open-source Apache Arrow Flight streaming Node.js framework I've been working on for the last couple of months.

At OpenTable, my team builds a guest data platform that helps restaurant customers understand their diners through real-time analytics and segmentation dashboards.

I spent a good amount of time last week preparing material to present to my upper management.

This is not a post about attention as mentioned in the Transformer architecture .

"In an investigation, assumptions kill" , is something Jack Reacher says often in the series Reacher .

This post is derived from my notes of the book Being Mortal , by Atul Gawande, a fascinating book on medicine, aging and mortality.

When you talk about AI's negative impacts, people often counter with "But that problem has always existed" as an easy way out.

My reflections on the gaps between a traditional computer science education and the dynamic nature of the technology industry