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The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII

A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours

Tracking Five Years Of Health Data

A thousand rides, a stack of apps, and actual motivation to get in shape

Scraping the Federal Reserve with VisiData

Big banks, small commands: a one-liner to wrangle the Fed’s bank list

ChatGPT Got Me Reading Plato

Notes, Prompts, and Noble Lies: A New Way to Jump Into Old Philosophy

Music to Break Models By

Gödelian limits of prompt-safe AI

I Donated to Sherrod Brown via ChatGPT

I let the LLM agent send money through ActBlue

Using LLM Embeddings to Normalize User Data

How cosine similarity in embedding space can power high-quality normalization.

GPT Finally Jumps Out of the System

OpenAI’s o4-mini-high Model Solves the MU Puzzle and Demonstrates Why

Part 2: Austin Texas, Hot or Not?

Confronting temperature vibes with graphs, because that tactic always works.

I Cracked And Modded the DNC Bracelet

The Democratic National Convention lit up the United Center with bracelets. I wanted to light mine up at home.

ActBlue Isn’t Selling Your Data

The campaign you donated to might be sharing your data.

CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good.

I would simply use delimiter characters to delimit data.

Spline Versus PCHIP

Sometimes you want a smooth curve. Sometimes you want a shape-preserving curve.

Austin, Texas: Hot or Not?

This summer hasn’t felt as hot as last summer. I decided to find out if that was actually true.

How Did Skannerz Work?

Only 90s kids are now adults who dig through patent filings to understand how their toys worked.

Amused Entirely To Death

What if the imminent danger to our democracy isn’t just looming authoritarianism, but also our own insatiable appetite for distraction? Last week’s Republican National Convention provided a stark reminder of this unsettling threat.

Language Models on the AI Executive Order

Deploying text embeddings and Llama2 to answer questions about the Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence issued by President Biden

BIDEN: Binary Inference Dictionaries for Electoral NLP

A compression-based binary classification technique that is fast at both training and inference on common CPU hardware in Python

Building a Neural Network From Scratch with NumPy

Let’s walk through creating a Neural Network from scratch, only using NumPy, and build a model that classifies the MNIST handwritten digit data set.

Exploring the Lambda Calculus with Python

Some basic ideas of the Lambda Calculus, and how to use it to implement a computation system in Python

Thank you.

Working on the Biden Campaign was the opportunity of a lifetime.