Today is Dad’s birthday and the fam is all up in Tahoe! The wrinkle is CEO has covid and I’m exposed (tho tested negative last night), so will have to keep outside / distanced / masked. So it goes; I have a gas fire pit and can layer up to handle the 35. Will also apologize to the Marty’s for the mess caused.

First, I have to covid test… annd tested positive. Fuck. Now I’m headed home with CEO to quarantine.

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Got up to Tahoe last night, and CEO tested positive for covid this afternoon, so we’re likely driving back tomorrow. Fortunately we caught the bug before causing a riot by spreading it at the friends and family dinner.

Can’t hang out with the fam tonight, but we’re all watching Oppenheimer; Mom had given me a biography on Oppenheimer years ago so my brain was busy doing lil cross-correlations. That era of physicists was bafflingly brilliant, but strange; broken? Schrodinger’s pedophilia, Oppenheimer’s political / affairs and raging ranch-aholism.

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Unpacking from Cozumel, packing for Thanksgiving in Tahoe with the fam. CEO and I head out tomorrow eve after I…

1. bail out the water on the boat tarp
2. bring up trash cans and clear out gutters
3. reschedule curie appt

Today I set a new PR on the Karate Monkey around the Lisa Killough @ Calero loop at like 38mins; that trail is becoming my benchmark.

I saw an interesting LLM link for creating / loading up vector DB’s: Neum AI. In particular, the an RAG pipeline lib with an API that looks straightforward relative to LangChain:

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Helped out / got in the way of OY and LT’s ironman preparation. Running bags have been delivered, bikes tuned and dropped off. I do not tri, but they do tomorrow. I’m endlessly amazed that they’re going to pull this race off. Here’s to the grand sloggers!

Tomorrow CEO and I will track them on the ironman app, cheer them on, and appreciate the extent of human athleticism.

Drivetrain Lube Lessons: First Wax

I’ve gotten some learnings in from my first bike waxing!

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CEO and I grabbed a taxi up to see OY and LT and babies family at the Crystal Palace in Cozumel. All-inclusive, baby! (frankly, the all-inclusive-thing would be nice to keep my own parents comfy). Always delightful to spend time with them.

Sam Altman was fired by OpenAI’s board today. Greg Brockman is resigning in protest (well, they did strip his board seat), along with several other high-ranking. Gossip points towards conflict between Sutskever and Altman, where Ilya advocated slow growth and got Machiavellian with leadership.

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