What are you doing this week?
7 points by caius
7 points by caius
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!
Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
Wrapping up NSFW detector work on marginalia search. Probably mainly just testing and writing a blog post about it, it's feeling pretty finished TBH. ... and trying to work out how to make that blog post not just be an impenetrable wall of chain ruled partial derivatives when explaining the single hidden layer neural network I cooked up to implement the filter. I already tried to do it literate programming style in the actual implementation, but man it's pretty dense stuff even if you grok it and I'm not very happy with how it came out.
Really weird subject. The math, notation and jargon makes it feel very unapproachable, but there's a real scooby-doo reveal to be had in that it's mostly just kindergarten-level multivariate calculus and linear algebra under the scary mask.
I'm working on an algorith for finding interchangeable medical instruments. It's really interesting, you have four or five 1000 page pdfs with pictures and have to figure out how to find a replacement pair of scissors that is identical to theones in the competitor's PDF. I'm using AI to compare the images but the underlying algorith is of course claasical. I haven't been able to find an existing algorithm for this so it's play time 🙃
Going through a small haul of vintage hardware I scored in local classifieds. Three Q-Bus cards and a 1977 NEC TK-80 single board computer with complete set of documentation. The latter is credited to be the first microcomputer of Japan and it's unclear how it ever ended up in Norway of all places.
Besides work depending on mood/energy/time:
Spending time with my wife and newborn. Maybe spend more time doing a bit of pixel art learning. I have started it again. Manually drawing.
Besides work:
I suspect that my plate is full enough that something can fall off it, but such is life
Editing the most recent episode of the Limeleaf podcast. Continuing to play around with my learning agentic coding project. Reading this series of posts to learn how real software engineers build collaborative text editing systems.
Revisiting some plans I had for implementing SSO auth for certain aspects of our IoT VPN. They'd been postponed (not in my control), but there's now a business case for them because I'm completely refusing to budge on something else unless we implement SSO first.
Oh, the joys of working in a ~100 person company where one day I'm testing windows VMs for our support department, another I'm reading electronics schematics, the next I'm debugging a linux kernel crash, and the day after that I'm writing networking code in Zig specifically targeting FreeBSD (the last one was my choice at least).