Allen Ng

I have been, and continue to be, highly skeptical of LLMs.  I am a bit late to the party, having only just begun to experiment with ChatGPT in Oct 2023.  I pretty well knew what to expect from it due to prior work in

My 7 year-old once asked me "What's calculus?". I've never liked the  approach of lying to a child because it is believed they would not  understand the true answer, and so telling them something that's false.   So I thought for a bit and came

I get multiple contacts from Amazon recruiters every week.  This one was a little more persistent, so I engaged. Since you took the time to follow-up I will respond. I have interviewed with Amazon 6 times over the years and have come to the

Tools are good, so more tools must be better, right? There is an art to making a good tool. If you don't make the right tool, you can end up making the task more cumbersome rather than easier.  Automation is especially vulnerable to this.

How an interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process I recall being in assembly class in school and a classmate said "I can't wait to be done with this so I don't have to do it again" .  I was taken

"March enthusiastically upon the Shining Path of social indoctrination! To firmly reject without hesitation or consideration all arguments of the Leftist dogs is to show support for our Great Leader. Shred the Mask of Oppression through a poorly-spelled, incomplete sentence on Twitter!"

He showed up at his professor's door at 11pm Monday night with the paper due last Friday crumpled in the bottom of his red backpack, underneath his participation medals and a half-eaten and sticky lollipop. Brimming with confidence that there was none smarter than

Hi, Rather than just list a series of references, I'd like to answer your question by explaining a little of my history with math or: How I Got Addicted to Mathematics. When I dropped out of college for the second time (no money), I

I've always wondered how differential gearing worked, but never taken the time to go study it.  This is an awesome video series.  What's really striking though is the pedagogy.  Take particular note of the lack of PowerPoint slides, interactive demonstrations, hands-on practice, group discussions,

I know that many people think that it's not necessary to make a big deal out of everything, that there exist such "little things" not worthy of attention and that we should let them pass without comment or action.  Much folksy wisdom has been

I seem to be one of the few people that have actually read an EULA or TOS agreement.  I've read the license agreement for every embedded device that I've connected to my network—before it gets the LAN credentials, I read the agreement.  These

We live in a society run by those who are the least proficient among its members.  We live in a society that has convinced itself that the specific details of a thing are some kind of marginal trivia and that the further removed you

Technology by itself is meaningless; it is the capabilities provided by technology that make a difference.  The capability provided by the TCP/IP inter-network is "connection".  I have the capability to establish a TCP session with any IP on the worldwide network without asking

All of our technological advances seem to have been applied, in some fashion, to putting ads in front of eyeballs.  The advertisers want to direct the development and use of (our!) technology towards the creation of "better" ads. Why do we still need ads

I don't have cable or an antenna, so I don't see the current shows or commercials.  Once or twice a year, I'll be in a hotel somewhere and have nothing to do but watch TV, so I'll flip it on to see if I

I do not fall within the anti-vaccine crowd. But that doesn't put me in the pro-vaccine crowd (though, for the most part, I am). I have a problem with both sides of this argument: there's no way for me to know which one is

Our society is hell-bent on abandoning anything non-digital (peak oil be damned).  Books, pencils, paper—if it doesn't have an "i" in front of it and if you're not using the most up to date, patched version then it must be no good. There

I'm moving all of my old writing from its various locations across the net and will be re-posting it all here.  Some of it I still really like.  Some not so much.  My writing style and opinions have changed over time (as they always

My standard post for any new blogging platform.  I have no plan for this one beyond writing, hence the name.  Not a personal journal; I have one of those.  Not a platform for sharing online media; I have one of those, too.  Here, I