Field Log on Sentimark

In tabletop games, a stat is what you roll and a feat is what you learn.

Somewhere in every production system there is a function nobody loves.

One sentence kept turning up in the literature, in three different papers, in almost the same words: the standard FPGA routing algorithm is intrinsically sequential.

A week after I wrote about the featherweight pattern, my brother sent me a text.

Eight weeks ago I was on the wrong side of a question.

It started with a character sheet.

We call it Riverside living.

The numbers were real, and that was the problem.

There’s a particular kind of dinner that isn’t about the food, exactly: it’s about deciding the evening is going to be nice and then making it true, one pan at a time.

A Note Before You Begin Just past the berm at the end of our street, the Feather River runs south toward the valley.

This is the kind of trip that looks ordinary if you flatten it into logistics.

Forgive me for a moment while I rant.

There are machines you understand by reading about them, and there are machines that make reading feel beside the point.

I did not set out to build a negation dataset because models could not understand the word not.

A speed nerd met spaCy and said… what if we did it this way?

In November 2025, the question was simple enough to sound rude: Why does the world need another vector embedding tool?

Some infrastructure questions become too expensive just by being asked often enough.