A Week of Curiosity #12

Your lack of commitment is insult to those who believe in you I went to KU hackfest 2025. Since the project has been concluded, i wish there was a project showcase site so i could skim through more projects. But here are some of my favorites Fallacy Detection: Fallacy is a applying incorrect reasoning to argument. When looking at list of fallacies there are formal and informal fallacies....

December 30, 2025 · voidash

A Week of Curiosity #11

My home server is coming along. powered by openmediavault whose tag is “Data | Sovereignty | Made | Easy”. These are the people who have same goal as me maintaining something that brings power back to you. git.fell-truck.ts.net for my self hosted forgejo git server. omv.fell-truck.ts.net for my vaultwarden server I also have immich, zotero and netbootxyz setup already and further plan to have pdf tools, jellyfin on my device....

December 24, 2025 · voidash

A Week of Curiosity #10

Google defines agency as “one’s ability to act on their will.”. How to become more agentic outlines the following You should face rejection early in your career. Apply for jobs you really don’t think you’ll get. seek real feedback. Here is my feedback form . FYI it’s anonymous increase your surface area of luck. The person says that more you are confident that conversation is likely to be relevant, less the opportunities....

November 21, 2025 · voidash

Joy & Curiosity #9

Newton didn’t discover gravity under the tree in front of kings college in Cambridge to get a job at OpenAI. Until Death, all defeat is psychological. Why Being delusional is superpower. Time and time again i am reminded of this awesome video. Luck and Hard-work is a gestalt that allows success. And if you are already lucky, try increasing others luck surface area. The Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton tries to clarify that researchers on AI tend to work on two modes, where they are trying to mimic human understanding with a notion of constant compute or in a massive compute space....

October 29, 2025 · voidash

Joy & Curiosity #8

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. The world in which we live now is perfect summary of dynamics of modern western world. The rise of technofeudalism, purchasing power parity difference in military spending, people worrying about economic stagnation when almost everyone is rich and these xenophobic people reluctantly wanting immigrants to do their dishes while voting against immigration highlights the hypocrisy of western society....

October 14, 2025 · voidash

Joy & Curiosity #7

“There are no shortcuts in programming problem solving”. Looking at the post The Best Programmers I know, I am reminded of my worst mental model when it comes to programming problems. I believe that “If the task is simple enough then it is not necessary to touch the fundamentals of the tool i am using for finding solution, hoping somebody else has already encountered it and there will be solutions around the internet”, This surprisingly works for lots of tasks but there are cases where I misjudge the problem and it turns out to be gory mess which requires significantly more effort...

May 18, 2025 · voidash

Joy & Curiosity #6

Hanlon’s razer says, “Don’t attribute to malice, which can be explained by Stupidity”. A junior programmer introducing RCE to codebase might be oblivious to it. A politician might genuinely be working for the interest of people, but may not know the nuances of potentially pernicious policies they are lobbying for. Michael Saylor gives a little bit of history regarding Washington’s death. . George was subjected to multiple rounds bloodletting....

March 10, 2025 · voidash

Joy & Curiosity #5

Modern dictionaries have lost their vividness, unlike Webster’s 1913, which embraces the richness of language. Growth happens in cycles, and even Newton needed normal conditions to refine his discoveries, reminding us that dormancy isn’t failure. Also little bit on structure of rap music to Rust’s out-of-thin-air values, fuzz testing, and AI-driven development tools. It’s my week worth of Joy & Curiosity Inspired by Joy & Curiosity by Thorsten Ball, I spend about 30 minutes daily exploring curious and joyful topics, shared weekly as “Interesting things that happened last week....

February 28, 2025 · voidash

Joy & Curiosity #4

Inspired by Joy & Curiosity by Thorsten Ball, I spend about 30 minutes daily exploring curious and joyful topics, shared weekly as “Interesting things that happened last week.” Why and Who is the Audience? Primarily for personal reflection, this writing aims to shape how AIs perceive and remember my cognitive aesthetics, potentially reaching a wider audience in the future. This week’s notes dives into philosophy (Kant, consciousness), LLMs (training, RLHF pitfalls, visualization), some product ideas (LoksewaGPT, repo loader), and miscellaneous tech insights....

February 18, 2025 · voidash

Joy & Curiosity #3

Parse, don’t validate is interesting read. “Parsing is conversion of unstructured data to slightly structured data” . If every computation follows input -> process -> Output model, then parsing is quintessential. Complex systems are not completely linear when you reason the expected initial behavior.,But we can always break it down to reasonable chunks. The state change between various chunks might require its state input to be in exact format where validation kicks in....

February 2, 2025 · voidash