Germany is more often a source of digital nomads than a primary place for them to stay. However I, who have learned German on and off (mostly off) since I was about 10 years old, have always wanted to spend more time there. And while it probably won’t rank as the world’s most exciting place …
As my need to run more model optimization runs for AutoTS continues, I was looking at adding another mini pc to my server setup. If you don’t know, mini PCs are a class of tiny desktop computers that use laptop processors. They don’t have a battery, but the use of laptop processors means they take …
Is ChatGPT and the its family of LLMs alive? If not, will models like these someday (soon) be alive? Do we need to be afraid of them destroying our world as we know it? And regardless of whether these things are alive or not, will they be useful? Those questions are big questions right now, …
To Be, or Not to Be AGI, and how do I use it? That is the question Read More »
If you follow the world of green energy, you will know there is a basic need to store excess energy from wind and solar in order to provide power when there is no wind or sun. Such systems also offer the potential for microgrids – ie being able to keep small parts of the grid, …
A Quick Feasibility Study on Home Pumped-Hydro Storage + Geothermal Read More »
I was pleasantly surprised by my month long stay in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I came to Colorado Springs looking for altitude training for cycling and running. I wanted 6,000 feet of elevation in the final weeks before a competition in order to get an aerobic boost caused by altitude adaptation. I am not the only …
For the last couple of years, I have spent a large portion of my life attempting to solve the unsolvable: forecasting time series to predict the future. I have personally thought myself quite clever for the various innovations I have come up with, and the thousands of users on my free and open-source AutoTS project …
Winning the M6 Competition: Financial Forecasting Decision Category Read More »
Wabasha, where I currently live, is the oldest town in Minnesota, inhabited since 1826. An 1843 map, by Nicollet and Fremont (names you’ll see a lot of in Minneapolis) lists it as the trading post of ‘Roques’ for the half-Indian (mother was the sister of chief Wapasha, for whom the town is named), half-French leader …
I would have never thought of visiting Puerto Rico if my sister wasn’t currently living there for a year now. I decided to stop by, visit her and generally explore the island for a month while working and cycling as I like to do. It proved to be a great digital nomad winter escape, and …
I grew up in a household where the inevitability of death was a strangely common motivator. We were told, as 10 year olds, to exercise because it would help us live longer. Bad habits were frequently flagged as sources of death. Statements about our future were usually conditioned by “if you live that long.” It …
Naomi Novik is one of the best fantasy writers around. Her early book, His Majesty’s Dragon and following series was one of my favorites, but it had a problem. It rather wandered around the globe, Patrick O’Brian style. Unfortunately, as an obvious result, it felt rather disconnected and random at times. Naomi Novik conspicuously avoided …
The Golden Enclaves: Naomi Novik finally completes a trilogy Read More »
