christian crumlish doing stuff
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Trespassers won’t
So I was having some coffee the other morning when I glanced at the deck and saw a face staring back at me, about ankle high, headed toward the corner of the house. It was a little reddish pointy face and my mind had real trouble keying it. Is that a fat little deer? I…
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Breakthrough
This probably won’t make much sense right now, and even the people who are following my AI project won’t get to this part of the story for at least a month, but Piper summarized a document for me today after days (!) of debugging that themselves were the last step in building out a file…
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Depicting Piper Morgan
Early on in my LLM-bot experiment I decided I needed a logo for the project (a robot emoji just wasn’t going to do). As I initially conceived of Piper as an “intern” some of the early ideas I generated were a little too much of the “student”: I shared that with my pal Cecil and…
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Because I don’t have enough to do
I was listening to an audio book by Anthony Kaldellis today and suddenly had this whole idea for a historical novel set mostly in 10th century Constantinople. I already have a working title for it (The Epistrophikon) and a bunch of ideas about settings, scenes, themes, the main character (Hraban or Korvax to the Greek-speaking…
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Dear diary
Thursday morning. Tomorrow is the 4th. Have a meeting at 8:05 with the other leads to sync and refine tickets. Making coffee. Colleague made a draft overview roadmap yesterday I need to review and start maintaining to help the team see its bearings. I ran into a wall in google analytics yesterday so will ask…
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This wasn’t how I pictured
My recent appearance in the Princeton alumni weekly (PAW) wasn’t exactly how I might have pictured showing up there, back in the previous millennium when I was still an undergrad.
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Settling in
The first three weeks on a new job, with the ongoing community work supporting other 18F alumni, trying to finish up the website for my record before it comes out next month and get the Kickstarter campaign set up to fund the vinyl version, all within the wild national context we’re all bobbing around in…
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Prankster babies
I grabbed a Lyft today (long story) to head down to the VA on Old Middlefield and fell into a conversation with an animated, tie-dyed, trim-gray-bearded fellow named Max as he drove me to my destination. I forget how we got onto the subject, but it turns out Max is the son of one of…