Sam's space

Culture usually has a positive connotation.

Over the past couple of years I have been building a lot of small apps on the side: language learning tools, AI toys, finance utilities, a few projects around veganism, AI technologies and other topics.

“Sam, you always do what you want!”

Hungarian picked up a lot of everyday words from Yiddish, often without the speaker thinking about the trail.

I wanted a simple text-to-presentation workflow: type what I need (a one-minute brief, a quick explainer, something to rehearse out loud), get a short script, then hear it instead of squinting at paragraphs.

I finally did something sensible with a cleaned ChatGPT export: I turned it into a static, local-only dashboard.

I put together a report that compares biological evolution, human technological progress, and AI capability growth across time.

I spent some time trying to reproduce the “context rot” effect: the idea that LLMs get worse at retrieving information from the middle of long contexts as you add more tokens.

I’ve been thinking about what actually drives productivity when coding with AI.

I’ve been digging into speculative decoding lately.