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Stellar is a bonkers book, full of crazy word salad arrow-filled diagrams. But it also makes a credible argument for an amazing future. At a minimum, it's the kind of perspective-warping challenge that needs to be part of our global conversation. shutdownhook.com/2025/12/03/i...
I Want This Future
Stellar is a bonkers book, full of crazy word salad arrow-filled diagrams that make very little sense. At the same time, it makes a credible argument for an amazing future — an optimistic, be…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Stellar is a bonkers book, full of crazy word salad arrow-filled diagrams. But it also makes a credible argument for an amazing future. At a minimum, it's the kind of perspective-warping challenge that needs to be part of our global conversation. shutdownhook.com/2025/12/03/i...
Excuse me have you seen a bunny on this stoop?
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Excuse me have you seen a bunny on this stoop?
Salish Sea jellyfish; this guy is huge!
September 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Salish Sea jellyfish; this guy is huge!
4+ years of retirement, 110 posts, and time for a bit of positive and negative introspection. Fair warning: navel-gazing ahead! shutdownhook.com/2025/08/31/1...
110 Posts and Counting
I realized today that I’ve written 109 (well I guess 110 now) long-form posts on shutdownhook.com since February 2021, the month I quit my job at Adaptive Biotechnologies and updated my LinkedIn bi…
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August 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
4+ years of retirement, 110 posts, and time for a bit of positive and negative introspection. Fair warning: navel-gazing ahead! shutdownhook.com/2025/08/31/1...
Conversations about AI in the popular press are so predictably over-simplified and ideological. Don't let yourself be a pawn; try it yourself, and develop your own intuition for where it shines and where it fails. These few anecdotes from my life might help. shutdownhook.com/2025/08/21/d...
Developing An Intuition for AI
AI is changing the world. Yes we are in a bubble and current claims are overblown and countless stupid companies are being started and a ton of investment capital is being thrown away. But don’t le…
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August 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Conversations about AI in the popular press are so predictably over-simplified and ideological. Don't let yourself be a pawn; try it yourself, and develop your own intuition for where it shines and where it fails. These few anecdotes from my life might help. shutdownhook.com/2025/08/21/d...
Check out what I found hidden inside this sandy, ripped up, cobwebby piece of beach driftwood!
August 21, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Check out what I found hidden inside this sandy, ripped up, cobwebby piece of beach driftwood!
Today's AI models are a lot like Lucy from 50 First Dates: largely frozen in time. Fixing this is one of the most active areas of development in the AI world, but it's early. Let's look at the state of the art, with some real interactions and even a little code! shutdownhook.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI Models: 50 First Dates
Back in 1987, Dartmouth required each incoming freshman to have a Macintosh computer. This was unheard of at the time — the whole campus (including dorm rooms) had network taps, there was a h…
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August 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Today's AI models are a lot like Lucy from 50 First Dates: largely frozen in time. Fixing this is one of the most active areas of development in the AI world, but it's early. Let's look at the state of the art, with some real interactions and even a little code! shutdownhook.com/2025/08/12/a...
Little friend on the lawn today. Everybody loves a sunny day!
July 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Little friend on the lawn today. Everybody loves a sunny day!
Latest read; Twister by Jack Bickham. Classic 70s disaster pulp, quick and fun!💙📚 #booksky shutdownhook.com/books/#:~:te...
July 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Latest read; Twister by Jack Bickham. Classic 70s disaster pulp, quick and fun!💙📚 #booksky shutdownhook.com/books/#:~:te...
First Rivian drive from Bellevue to Ventura in the books! The car is awesome in many/most ways, but choked bad in one that I'm hoping is transitory. shutdownhook.com/2025/07/10/r...
Rivian v Tesla (I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC)
Note: I plan to update this post after we get back to Washington and have the car in for service; it seems likely that there is an issue with the cooling system that caused some of the issues I tal…
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July 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
First Rivian drive from Bellevue to Ventura in the books! The car is awesome in many/most ways, but choked bad in one that I'm hoping is transitory. shutdownhook.com/2025/07/10/r...
Ventura Skyway
July 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Ventura Skyway
Mount Shasta always delivers
July 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mount Shasta always delivers
Under the sea! A fun project making jewelry from beach finds, native Red Alder and UV resin. A bunch of new techniques in this one: shutdownhook.com/2025/07/01/u...
Under the Sea!
Summer brings some pretty low daytime tides to Witter Beach. On the most extreme days, our beach stretches out more than two hundred yards from the bulkhead — pretty amazing and endless explo…
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July 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Under the sea! A fun project making jewelry from beach finds, native Red Alder and UV resin. A bunch of new techniques in this one: shutdownhook.com/2025/07/01/u...
An entertaining experience trading in my Tesla and "watching" it go through the process of resale. It reminded me that designing for edge cases is hard and important, and even solid human engineers often miss the mark. shutdownhook.com/2025/06/23/i...
Interaction at the Edges
There’s a rule of multithreaded programming that says that if something can happen, it will. Package delivered at the same time the kitchen catches on fire and ALF is on live TV? For sure. I’ve bee…
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June 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
An entertaining experience trading in my Tesla and "watching" it go through the process of resale. It reminded me that designing for edge cases is hard and important, and even solid human engineers often miss the mark. shutdownhook.com/2025/06/23/i...
Keekwulee Falls through the drizzle today ... Brilliant!
June 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Keekwulee Falls through the drizzle today ... Brilliant!
Putting in the work, heavy pollen load!
June 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Putting in the work, heavy pollen load!
Something is definitely in this hole, Dad!
June 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Something is definitely in this hole, Dad!
Blackberries anyone?
June 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Blackberries anyone?
#robinfest2025 End of an Era? After the babies disappeared a few weeks ago, we saw a crow checking out the empty nest; clearly the robins' hidden spot has been discovered. Happily, mom and dad were smart enough to get out of Dodge; hopefully they're making new babies! Such amazing construction.
June 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
#robinfest2025 End of an Era? After the babies disappeared a few weeks ago, we saw a crow checking out the empty nest; clearly the robins' hidden spot has been discovered. Happily, mom and dad were smart enough to get out of Dodge; hopefully they're making new babies! Such amazing construction.
Doginson Crusoe
June 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Doginson Crusoe
There is a rabbit.
May 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There is a rabbit.
In and out of the sage flowers all day long today!
May 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
In and out of the sage flowers all day long today!
Under the sea!
May 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Under the sea!
Turtle! Been awhile since I've seen them out sunning.
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Turtle! Been awhile since I've seen them out sunning.