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  • Aug 4
    Bookmark Links 20250803

    Writing (almost) every day for the past month has been exhausting. It slowed down me reading significantly to say the least. But it proved a point to myself, that I can. I’ll be trying to write …

    1 min
  • Aug 2
    Essay The Small God of the Internet

    It was a small announcement on an innocuous page about “spring cleaning”. The herald, some guy with the kind of name that promised he was all yours. Four sentences you only find because you were …

    5 min
  • Jul 31
    EssayWorld Machines Looking Forward to Montaigne

    As part of the Contraptions book club we will be reading the Essays of Montaigne. I actually started to read the Donald Frame translations, but felt I needed more context. In the book club, Paul …

    2 min
  • Jul 29
    Essay Why Every Biotech Research Group Needs a Data Lakehouse

    start tiny and scale fast without vendor lock-in All biotech labs have data, tons of it. The problem is the same across scales. Accessing data across experiments is hard. Often data simply gets lost …

    3 min
  • Jul 28
    Essay Work or Play? Ludic Feedback Loops

    In his substack post today, Venkatesh Rao wrote about reading and writing in the age of LLMs as playing and making toys respectively. In one part he writes about how the dopamine feedback loop from …

    2 min