Happiness Machines

I sent the PDF on a Tuesday after work, after renaming the file twice and staring at the title page long enough to start doubting the title, which is usually when I either rewrite the first scene or submit so I can stop touching it.

I got curious about how DeepSeek actually works.

Since I was a kid, I thought I was good at coding systems: tinkering around a problem, writing a set of specs to understand what was going on, and from there coming up with a practical solution.

I keep coming back to this idea that storage should look more like a market: lots of small actors, each guarding its own corner, instead of a single vault.

When I was a kid, I was terrified of exposing ideas in public.

Usually, throughout the history of humankind, there have been different kinds of technological revolutions that completely reshaped the very idea of productivity we knew at the time (e.g., the printing press, the agrarian revolution, the weapons industry,…

I have not posted any articles or ideas on this site for a few months now.

Most of what we call effort is just a performance.

Today (2024), generative artificial intelligence allows us to generate infinite solutions, but the problem is that we cannot prove that these solutions are related to a particular real output.

SQLite, a lightweight, self-contained SQL database engine, is a popular choice for embedded applications due to its simplicity and minimal setup requirements.