Adam
@adamlaiacano.bsky.social
Engineer, suburban dad, old punk. 🏌️♂️
New Rochelle, NY 🤘
New Rochelle, NY 🤘
At Spotify we had a hard rule about not asking users questions that we should know the answer to. If possible, find a passive way to get the info. This menu would not fly.
February 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
At Spotify we had a hard rule about not asking users questions that we should know the answer to. If possible, find a passive way to get the info. This menu would not fly.
I finally started fiddling around with running local LLMs and the both the copyright issues and hallucinations around GenAI seem even crazier when the chat never leaves my own computer.
January 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I finally started fiddling around with running local LLMs and the both the copyright issues and hallucinations around GenAI seem even crazier when the chat never leaves my own computer.
"Let's play one last round in 2024. What could go wrong?"
January 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Let's play one last round in 2024. What could go wrong?"
Good lord. Look at this vermouth selection.
December 27, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Good lord. Look at this vermouth selection.
Tiger an Charlie coordinated green-side glares.
December 22, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Tiger an Charlie coordinated green-side glares.
A fun #recsys hiccup. When a term like "Luigi" becomes popular in a new domain (not Nintendo or workflow orchestration), youtube can't stop it from leaking into the recommendations while watching a video from Spotify's Backstage.
December 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
A fun #recsys hiccup. When a term like "Luigi" becomes popular in a new domain (not Nintendo or workflow orchestration), youtube can't stop it from leaking into the recommendations while watching a video from Spotify's Backstage.
Teaching the kids multiplication the fun way.
And drawing some hearts on my golf balls.
And drawing some hearts on my golf balls.
December 7, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Teaching the kids multiplication the fun way.
And drawing some hearts on my golf balls.
And drawing some hearts on my golf balls.
I just found this email I sent in August, 2011, about a month after I started at Tumblr. Fun times back then. Scaling a recommender system turned out to be a little more complicated than I was anticipating.
December 6, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I just found this email I sent in August, 2011, about a month after I started at Tumblr. Fun times back then. Scaling a recommender system turned out to be a little more complicated than I was anticipating.
I wish Arccos went a little harder on their Wrapped-style year-end summary.
December 5, 2024 at 2:57 AM
I wish Arccos went a little harder on their Wrapped-style year-end summary.
Best swing of my life (so far).
November 20, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Best swing of my life (so far).
This table at the elementary school book fair is wild.
* Bigfoot
* Crop circles
* Taylor Swift x8
* Bigfoot
* Crop circles
* Taylor Swift x8
November 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM
This table at the elementary school book fair is wild.
* Bigfoot
* Crop circles
* Taylor Swift x8
* Bigfoot
* Crop circles
* Taylor Swift x8
It’s really amazing. Shows you recaps of every shot you took as well with shareable photos.
November 19, 2024 at 12:09 PM
It’s really amazing. Shows you recaps of every shot you took as well with shareable photos.
Of course I pulled the raw numbers and graphed my progress.
November 16, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Of course I pulled the raw numbers and graphed my progress.
Happy birthday to ChatGPT.
November 15, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Happy birthday to ChatGPT.
This review of a book from 1927 doesn’t seem to be sarcastic.
November 15, 2024 at 12:08 AM
This review of a book from 1927 doesn’t seem to be sarcastic.
I’m going to be one of those guys who owns a golf ball display case.
November 12, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I’m going to be one of those guys who owns a golf ball display case.
Down wind. Bombs away. This is the golf equivalent of `torch.device(“cuda”)`
Swapping my Veterans Day off from 60 and rainy Monday to 70 and sunny today was the right move.
Swapping my Veterans Day off from 60 and rainy Monday to 70 and sunny today was the right move.
November 9, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Down wind. Bombs away. This is the golf equivalent of `torch.device(“cuda”)`
Swapping my Veterans Day off from 60 and rainy Monday to 70 and sunny today was the right move.
Swapping my Veterans Day off from 60 and rainy Monday to 70 and sunny today was the right move.
It’s never a good idea to buy a new tool or piece of equipment and expect it to solve all of your problems. Unfortunately, some times you do and it actually works.
November 7, 2024 at 12:31 AM
It’s never a good idea to buy a new tool or piece of equipment and expect it to solve all of your problems. Unfortunately, some times you do and it actually works.
The day got better by this metric.
November 4, 2024 at 3:58 PM
The day got better by this metric.
