Weeknotes: 2024-W47
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Summary
A good week for photography. Upgraded to an iPhone 16 Pro, and got the Sony 85mm GM II lens for my my Sony a7r II’s new era of service, so took a lot of photos with the new capabilities and perspectives available.
Short work week - two days following leads on new teams to join. Then, long-scheduled PTO for Handmade Seattle. Went to a bit of the first day, but wasn’t feeling it, and kept the PTO to have some quiet days for the rest of the week, mostly reading.
Photos
(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)
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Enjoying
- Reading:
- Golden Fool (The Tawny Man #2) by Robin Hobb
- Fool’s Fate (The Tawny Man #3) by Robin Hobb
- Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wilds Chronicles #1) by Robin Hobb
- Watching:
- Playing:
- Nothing.
Recommended
Large Language Models explained briefly
3blue1brown (occasionally referred to as “Grant Sanderson”) is one of my favourite maths “communicators”, using animation to great effect to explain mathematical concepts. If you’re curious about LLMs, and either haven’t watched something else, or haven’t found other things effective to help you start, this might work for you.
The telescoping screw that makes standing desks work
Matthias Wandel is at his best when he’s off on a tangent learning how things work, including in this case proving to himself that he was right about how things worked. The juxtaposition with the above video is interesting - there’s something about seeing the thing actually being pulled apart and demonstrated in reality that doesn’t entirely overlap with seeing how it may work in an animation.