Updated September 20, 2024

Home Contact Archive Hi! I'm Linus, and I do things with computers. I'm an enthusiastic user and contributor of NixOS, and I like to program in Rust, but know my way around various other languages and many different parts of Linux desktop and server environments. I co-managed the releases of NixOS 19.03 and 19.09. You can find me on… * Matrix: @linus:schreibt.jetzt * E-mail: @sphalerite.org (personal). * GitHub: lheckemann This is my blog. Posts ----- * Odd intersections: Navidrome, Loki, jq and ListenBrainz - September 20, 2024 * Switching between code variants using comments - April 1, 2024 * How to debug your initramfs init - February 18, 2024 * Building Ubuntu images in Nix - November 6, 2023 * Get all your sources! - October 27, 2023 * How can I boot NixOS? Let me count the ways... - December 7, 2022 * Back to Ubuntu: Linux dual-boot, but cheaper - October 21, 2022 * Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick - October 13, 2022 * Windows-on-NixOS, part 2: Make it go fast! - June 17, 2020 * Windows-on-NixOS, part 1: Migrating bare-metal to a VM - November 27, 2019 * NixOS ❤️ Chromebook? - November 10, 2017

Updated September 19, 2024

2024 ---- Right now, my main priorities include software engineering and data science consulting, focusing on my health and wellness, and traveling around the US in my van, which I’m continuously working to improve through various DIY and customization projects. As I travel, I occasionally teach workshops on road trip safety. In my free time, I enjoy playing music, reading, and working on leathercraft projects. * * * You can also see what I’ve done in the past. Want to learn what a now page is? Check out nownownow.com.

Updated September 18, 2024

Hi, I’m Leo Glowacki -------------------- I craft practical solutions through data, code, and hands-on projects, blending my passions to help others thrive in their work and adventures. As an independent consultant and certified RStudio instructor with dual degrees in Data Analytics and Music from The Ohio State University, I focus on building solutions that concisely address the root cause of complex problems. Want to learn more about my journey in data science, music, and this world? Check out my resume or see what I’m doing now. I’m always interested in new connections and opportunities – don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Updated September 18, 2024

Welcome to my online garden! 🍒 I am a software engineer from Split, Croatia. I write about programming, tech, and soft skills. My website is entirely ad-free, devoid of affiliate links, free from sponsored content, and there's no paywall. The sole driving force behind this website is my desire to share my knowledge with the world. Despite the prevailing challenges, I'm determined to contribute positively to the community, even if it's within this small corner. I live by two rules: 1) Don't be a jerk 2) Every person I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him. I like traveling, gaming, reading, football, padel, and pub quizzes. I am also a big fan of stoicism, which I try to practice in my daily life as much as possible. Favorites --------- * **Animal** - cat * **Colors** \- black and blue * **Football club** - FC Chelsea * **Video game** - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt * **Book** \- "Ego is the enemy", Ryan Holiday Links ----- * LinkedIn * GitHub Miscellaneous ------------- Resume

Updated September 18, 2024

Hey there! 👋 This is Kshitij, and you have reached my space on the World Wide Web. Currently, I’m based out of Berlin where I work as a software engineer mostly focusing on backend systems. This blog is the place where I think in public. Words help shape my thoughts. Though they may be far from perfect, but this process of discovery and expression is valuable. The posts are my attempt to share my ideas, and reflect on experiences. You can find my notes on this blog as well. Note: I have deliberately disabled comments on my articles on this site. It is neither my intention to refrain from feedback nor censor criticism of my writings. However, I definitely desire to _Make It Difficult_ to do so. Here are a links to know a bit more about me: * Check out Now to know more about my current interests. * My Shelf to explore the content I’m consuming. * My public Running Log on Substack. * Influences: People who continue to shap my thinking. Feeds * Notes * Posts * All content In case you would like to discuss anything, please reach out to me on the social media accounts linked on the Home page. Alternately, via email. Cheers! 🍺

Updated September 18, 2024

Home / About * * * About ----- I'm just old enough to remember dial-up, often tying up the phone line to play games. Before I knew what IT was, I was grappling with Windows drivers and services. Finding my middle school computer and typography classes boring, I used proxies to access the raw data of the Internet. I experienced broadband for the first time like it was an epiphany. I used it to run game servers for my friends and me, but I found something greater still: text files that predated my own existence. This was my first exposure to early "hacker" culture and security in general. In this realm, adversarial, outside-of-the-box thinking was the default. While not all of it was healthy, it had a profound effect on me. Even still, I could never have imagined I'd end up as a cybersecurity professional. Today, as a Senior Threat Hunter, I've come full circle. My early immersion now serves as my greatest strength. I use the adversarial mindset I developed to anticipate, identify, and mitigate sophisticated threats before they can cause harm. The hacker ethos is about freedom of expression and thought. Autonomy. Today, transnational threats seek to deprive businesses and individuals of their autonomy. We are not alike. Experience ---------- ### National Grid * **Senior Threat Hunter** (Nov 2021 - Present) * Cyber threat intelligence * Incident handling, investigation support * Proactive cybersecurity operations * Third-party risk management * Threat and vulnerability management ### Simply Business * **Security Operations Engineer** (Apr 2021 - Nov 2021) * Security systems administrator (sysadmin) * Started proactive cybersecurity/threat hunting initiative * **Cyber Security Analyst** (Aug 2019 - Apr 2021) * SIEM deployment in a bespoke DevOps environment * Security awareness training * System hardening ### Barton Associates * **Security Analyst** (Jan 2019 - Jun 2019) * Deploy and operate security tooling * Penetration testing * **Technical Support Specialist** (Jan 2018 - Dec 2018) * Direct assistance for affiliated startup * Provide support to offices nationally * Security awareness training * System administrator (sysadmin) Publications ------------ ### Cutter Business Technology Journal **2021:** Proactive Defense: Threat Hunting & Deception (PDF) **2018:** Beyond Bitcoin: Tokenized Integrity (www.cutter.com) Training -------- This list is not exhaustive. ### Antisyphon Training * Active Defense and Cyber Deception (16 hours) * Advanced Endpoint Investigations (16 hours) ### Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) * Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity (14 hours) ### IntelTechniques * OSINT Course (85 hours) ### Mandiant * Practical Threat Hunting (24 hours) ### SANS Institute * SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling * SEC560: Enterprise Penetration Testing * SEC545: Cloud Security Architecture and Operations * FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics * SEC563: Automating Information Security with Python * _FOR608: Enterprise-Class Incident Response and Threat Hunting \[Planned\]_

Updated September 16, 2024

Hi, I'm Martin -------------- I help people think about technology. I work at the Pervasive Media Studio, looking after a community of artists, technologists, and assorted weirdos. I also sit on the editorial board of Container Magazine, and love sticking my nose into other people's projects. * * * I sometimes write about what I've been up to. Most recently: Monday 16 September 2024, late * * * If you want to get in touch, send me an email at \[email protected\].

Updated September 14, 2024

I am a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. I previously co-founded and ran Open Philanthropy and GiveWell. All opinions are my own. I'm not currently prioritizing this blog and don't expect many or any new pieces, but I think a lot of the old ones are worth reading! Most of the posts on this blog were written at least a month before they were posted, sometimes much longer. I try to post things that are worth posting even so, hence the name "Cold Takes." If you have suggested links/books/etc., please use this form to send them in. Here are highlights, which should give a sense for what the blog is like. The "most important century" series ----------------------------------- The "most important century" series argues that the 21st century could be the most important century ever for humanity, via the development of advanced AI systems that could dramatically speed up scientific and technological advancement, getting us more quickly than most people imagine to a deeply unfamiliar future. It's available in web, audio, PDF and Kindle formats. Some other highlights so far ---------------------------- * Where's Today's Beethoven? is a short series examining the causes and consequences of "innovation stagnation": across a variety of areas in both art and science, the best-regarded figures are disproportionately from long ago, and our era seems to "punch below its weight" when considering the rise in population, education, etc. (Why has no musician in the modern era achieved the stature of Beethoven, despite a much higher population of potential artists today?) * Why Describing Utopia Goes Badly is first in a three-part series on why it's so difficult to lay out an appealing hypothetical utopia - and why we nonetheless shouldn't give up on the idea of utopia. * Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny presents five clashing pictures of how to help the world, and the questions about history they raise. * Has Life Gotten Better? is a series asking: "What would a chart of average quality of life for an inhabitant of Earth look like, if we started it all the way back at the dawn of humanity?" Most analyses of this topic focus on the last few hundred years, but humanity is at least hundreds of thousands of years old. Key pieces include Pre-agriculture gender relations seem bad and this concise summary of the case that life has gotten better since the Industrial Revolution. * Why talk about 10,000 years from now? summarizes one of the central attitudes of this blog: I try to imagine myself as a billions-of-years-old observer, thinking of hundred-year phenomena as "short-lived" and writing about the sorts of things that might still matter a very long time from now. * Minimal-Trust Investigations describes the single activity that has been most formative for the way I think. Most of what I believe comes from trusting others, in one way or another; but sometimes, I like to suspend my trust and dig as deeply into a question as I can, partly so I can form deeper views on whom to trust and when/why. * Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review. There's an interesting theory out there that X causes Y. If this were true, it would be pretty important. So I did a deep-dive into the academic literature on whether X causes Y. Here's what I found. (Embarrassingly, I can't actually remember what X and Y are. Fortunately or unfortunately, I think this piece is correct for most (X,Y) that you might try to research.) * Give Sports a Chance is the first in my "Cold Links" series: links that I like a lot, that are so old you can't believe I'm posting them now. It makes the case for why you might be interested in sports, even if you hate sports. If you're sold, here are my other sports posts. * Gell-Mann Earworms. "Gell-Mann Amnesia" refers to constantly forgetting how unreliable news sources are; I use "Gell-Mann Earworms" for the opposite condition, in which "I can’t trust this" is constantly ringing in your ears as you read anything. Since this seems correct, how does one live with this condition? * Summary of history (empowerment and well-being lens) presents a summary of human history in one table, through the specific lens of "empowerment and well-being": I consider historical people and events significant to the degree that they influenced the average person's (a) options and capabilities (empowerment) - including the advance of science and technology; (b) health, safety, fulfillment, etc. (well-being). Through this lens, the wars and power struggles that fill traditional history textbook barely matter; changes in science and technology, health, poverty, gender relations and slavery are all far more significant, leading to a different picture of history. * Phil Birnbaum's "bad regression" puzzles. If you've ever wanted to see someone painstakingly deconstruct a regression analysis and show all the subtle reasons it can generate wild, weird and completely wrong results, click here.

Updated September 14, 2024

A few extras from my trip to Wyoming. I took a lot of photos and videos and have had a tough time choosing, so here’s the final selection. A mud spring in Yellowstone. These are mesmerizing to watch (and smell!). One of the pools in the West Thumb Geyser Basin along the shore of Lake Yellowstone. This was a great hotel. The proprietor let us use her clothes line in her backyard to hang out and dry our wet tents from camping in Yellowstone. Of course, it’s rated number 1 on “iPad Visor.” I would expect no less! 🙂 Backcountry waterfalls in the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area. This wilderness was simply stunning and I am glad to have seen it. Seen in the hunting, camping, backpacking store in Cody, Wyoming. I can say that my own children are not wild. I should have read this book! 🙂 The dinosaur museum in Thermopolis, Wyoming housed large beasts, such as this one. It was started by a dentist from Germany who fell in love with Wyoming and started up the museum. He buys bones from digs and has employees who clean them up and then he puts them in the museum. A nice stop after the hot pools. Late afternoon rainbow in Wyoming on our way to Lander. Stunning scenery! That ends the images of my vacation in Wyoming, 2024. Heading West – Sacajawea’s grave -------------------------------- #### Posted on September 13, 2024 From Thermopolis & Dubois, we were going to head up over the mountains to Jackson Hole, but the road was closed due to wildfire. So we headed south to Lander, Wyoming. Lander is a bit of a backpacker’s hub where a lot of hikers land for a bit between trails. It was a nice small western town where we had a nice meal and a rest before moving further west. The trip was a good one. Wyoming will always have a piece of my heart and I look forward to visiting again someday . . . . This is the memorial to Sacajawea, the woman who travelled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the ocean back in the early 1800s. Her gravesite was nearby. Indian cemetery seemed so alive with how people added items of importance to the graves to remember their loved one. A sad note was just how young so many of them died. The evening light was beautiful as we visited. Wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail. The land just goes on forever, it seems. Now --- #### Posted on September 8, 2024 My “now” page has been updated. More trip posts to come (almost done!). Categories: now Thermopolis & Dubois -------------------- #### Posted on September 7, 2024 We left the wilderness and headed to the lovely small town of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Thermopolis is known for the thermal spring that the town has set up to fill several soaking pools for anyone who wants to indulge. The temperature is 104 degrees F., and is fantastic. Following this we headed to Dubois, Wyoming where we stopped for a visit in the National Museum of Military Vehicles, a 156,000 square feet large history lesson. It was truly amazing. Get this: the ticket allows for two days of entry, it is that large and expansive. The springs run off into the river with this nice suspension bridge set up for people to walk across. The large hill in the background is where the hot water comes from. This is one of the exhibit spaces in the museum. The museum was created by Dan Starks to show off his collection. Another of the many sets that have been created. Each one gives a small piece of information about what you’re seeing and the context in which it was used. We could have spent way more than three hours here. I took a lot of photos of this place. What perhaps struck me most about it was that it was very even handed about how it presented the conflicts and the pieces in the museum that were connected to those conflicts. I was quite impressed and I recommend a visit if you ever get to the least populated state in the nation. Wyoming backcountry ------------------- #### Posted on September 6, 2024 Kurt and I left YNP and headed east. Onto Cody, of Buffalo Bill fame, and then to the Bighorn Mountains where we backpacked into the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area one of 803 Designated Wilderness Areas in the US. Wilderness areas have one requirement: nothing with wheels can be used to get there. Legs and feet only, and if you’re a horse, the same applies. We backpacked for 5 nights and 6 days, covering almost 60 miles. We had a bull moose stroll through our camp, met some super nice people, saw several horse packing groups and only had to deal with biting black flies a bit. Wildfire smoke was minimal and I did not eat enough. Nothing really beats being the backcountry, however. At about 10,350 feet, the sunset was beautiful. This fella strolled through our camp in the morning. A few days later, we had a rain storm start up to the east and the sun was setting to the west and this rainbow appeared. It was a beautiful way to end the day. Other images:

Updated September 13, 2024

Hi. I'm Chris and I'm what's called a Location Independent Freelancer. The nature of my work means that I can perform it anywhere where I have access to my computer and a reliable internet connection. However, it wasn't always this way. Back in 2015, I was headed into a corporate career that I wasn't at all passionate about. I was seeking an international experience but the path that was laid out for me didn't quite allow me to live abroad. Working holidays weren't really an option for me as I was focused on building a long-term professional career after graduating with a degree in Business from the Queensland University of Technology in mid-2015. Shortly before graduating, I realised that I was starting my career during the beginnings of something called, '_the digital nomad movement_'. Discovering the '_Digital Nomad Movement_' ------------------------------------------ In early 2015, I discovered something called the Digital Nomad Movement. Each day, more and more people were becoming aware that they no longer had to be restricted to any one location and that day in January, I became one of them. Less than 12 months later, I left Australia on my own digital nomad journey towards true Location Independence. So what exactly is a '_Digital Nomad_'? --------------------------------------- > Digital nomads are individuals who leverage telecommunications technologies to perform their work duties, and more generally conduct their lifestyle in a nomadic manner." Wikipedia (2015) Put simply, a Digital Nomad is anyone who uses their digital abilities to work from anywhere and everywhere. This movement is seeing thousands of digital workers moving overseas and living anywhere they like. As technology advances, so does the general population's ability to work online, needing only a laptop and some WiFi to do their job. With employers now cluing on to the advantages of distributed teams, the definition of a digital nomad has expanded past lifestyle entrepreneurs to include employees, freelancers and creatives. Starting '_Chris the Freelancer_' --------------------------------- When starting my ‘digital nomad journey’, I discovered a huge information gap in the travel space for those who work online and travel. As someone who watched (and still watches) a lot of YouTube, I was surprised to find that there was hardly any vloggers who covered this particular lifestyle and so I set about becoming _that_ _vlogger_. For the next two years, I released weekly vlogs about my digital nomad lifestyle, interviews other digital nomads and reviews on the top destinations in the world for digital nomads. But it wasn't sustainable... Becoming '_Location Independent'_ --------------------------------- During those two first years of freelancing and work remotely, I was purely motivated by travel but after circumnavigating the world in 2017, I realised that my 'digital nomad lifestyle' was no longer sustainable. In late 2017, I returned home to Australia to re-think my life and I realised that I still wanted _**the freedom to travel**_ but the not _**the pressure of constant travel**_. Working remotely from my home city of Brisbane, Australia, I realised that it's not just the ability to travel to far and exotic locations that made freelancing and working remotely a great way to live. Along with this realisation, I begun to develop a stronger focus on the work I wanted to do instead of the locations in which to do it. In 2018, I made the switch to do more to help people _**actually become location independent**_ rather than focusing purely on traveling and working remotely. It started with a few classes on Skillshare.com, a new Youtube channel and most recently, soft-launching my own educational website ShopifyThemeDeveloper.com. If you're new to my blog and want to learn how you can work remotely as well - whether that be as a freelancer, an online business owner or a remote employee - visit the remote work category of my blog here. Until next time, Chris

Updated September 12, 2024

Currently residing in Monterrey, Nuevo León, I am immersing myself in the world of cryptocurrencies, investment, and data analytics. Here’s a snapshot of my current activities: * Developing my own products * Training in bachata and salsa for dance competitions These are my primary focuses at the moment: * Enhancing my dance skills * Refining my daily habits * Becoming a profitable trader * Learning to delegate effectively and make informed decisions at work * Increasing productivity to achieve more in less time This page will be updated to reflect any changes in my activities or priorities. The last update was on September 12, 2024. This page serves as a public declaration and a personal reminder, providing a balance to the goal-oriented nature of my Impossible List. This concept was inspired by Derek Sivers and Thomas Frank.

Updated September 12, 2024

This what I’m making / learning **now**. For all activities, see my projects page. * Going to film festivals promoting The Flower of Battle! * Teaching DaVinci Resolve at AFI and online for Blackmagic Design * Producing DaVinci Resolve Courses at DVResolve.com * In post-production for Takeout, an Action Comedy short film I directed * Writing a feature film version of The Flower of Battle plus a few more adventure feature films! * Prepping to Direct multiple short films * Creating courses for Actors at Working.Actor I’d love to hear what you’re up to, too. Say hi on Instagram! Updated: 9/12/24

Updated September 12, 2024

What I’m up to these days: -------------------------- _updated 2024-09-12_ Renovating the guest cabin behind our farmhouse. Writing, producing audio dramas and other ephemera, gardening, theatre, & occasionally swinging the ol’ camera around. Erstwhile: * Sr. Visual Communications Design Specialist at Portland’5 Centers for the Arts * Social Media Marketing Coordinator for the Oregon Symphony * Marketing Coordinator at the Oregon Convention Center * Administrative Manager of Struthers Library Theatre * Actor, production coordinator, and photographer in Los Angeles * Radio DJ & general audio production duties at WRLP, WJET, WERG, and WRKT in the northwest PA region.

Updated September 12, 2024

Cokeco are a Fukuoka-based design duo who create leather accessories inspired by the natural curiosities of the world around them. Lately, their attention has been focused on sealife: specifically, our multi-limbed mollusc friends whose tentacles provide endless inspiration for bags, keychains and other everyday accessories. Continue reading unless otherwise noted, all photos by Takeshi Shinto This summer, a unique store opened in Tokyo. Located just a few steps away from Tokyo Sky Tree is “Guruguru Shakashaka,” a salt specialty store that lets you explore 600 varieties of salt and then blend your own. Equally unique is the name, which is based on the Japanese onomatopoeia for mixing and shaking. Continue reading Tokyo-based artist Ogino Yuna creates semi-abstract paintings using motifs of living things that are familiar to her, such as flowers and people. But for her latest exhibition, which just opened in Tokyo, the artist has pointed her brush at one of the most basic yet intimate human connections: the embrace. Continue reading “TRYST” (2021) by Masahiko Minami. Charcoal and mixed-media on wood panel Masahiko Minami works with charcoal and graphite to create minimalist landscapes in dramatic contrast. At once both familiar and foreign, the landscapes present a tension between absence and depth, reflection and contemplation. Continue reading rendering of the Takara-yu sento in Tokyo Japanese illustrator Enya Honami uses a style of architectural rendering known as isometric drawings to faithfully recreate cross-sections of Japanese public bathhouses, or sento. Honami is a skilled draughtswoman by trade, having obtained an MFA in architecture and working at a well-known Japanese architecture firm. But the grueling hours and workload eventually weighed on her physical and mental state and she fell ill, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Continue reading “To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who creates sculptures that engage the viewer through their own imagination. Depending on your point of view, Inaba’s works look like they’re either disintegrating into mid-air, or being assembled into a whole as the wires continually thin out until only “blanks” remain. Continue reading Osaka Station just got a little more bizzare. Manga artist Hirohiko Araki, known best for his epic saga Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, has installed his first-ever public art piece at Osaka Station’s West Gate. Titled “Fountain Boy,” the circular, back-lit sculpture pays homage to the history and tradition of Osaka Station by taking inspiration from a statue of the same name, displayed in Osaka Station for 103 years that is now preserved at the Kyoto Railway Museum. Continue reading a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a model has existed in Japan in which subsidized housing supports manga artists who are early in their career and have not yet established an audience. One of the earliest was the Tokiwa-so Apartments in Tokyo which, from the 1950s into the 80s, was home to such luminary figures as Osamu Tezuka and Fujiko Fujio. And as manga translations find new audiences outside Japan, there seems to be a renewed interest in supporting the next up-and-coming manga artist. Continue reading photos by Osamu Nakamura In Niigata prefecture’s Murono Village, a surreal scene has unfolded…or should I say, inflated? From the rear of an abandoned townhouse a colossal, semi-transparent bubble has emerged, immediately transforming the quiet village into what could easily be mistaken for one of Willy Wonka’s inventions gone awry. This is, in fact, the latest creation by Ma Yansong, the visionary behind the architectural firm MAD Architects and a new addition to the local Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival. Continue reading _Senko hanabi_, literally meaning ‘incense fireworks,’ are small and subtle sparklers that are packed with about 10 seconds of delicate pyrotechnics. Typically sold alongside other handheld fireworks, the unspoken rule is that senko hanabi are reserved for the grand finale. However, their ethereal and subtle nature always leave us wanting more. Continue reading

Updated September 11, 2024

Soy Guillermo Montero. Ingeniero especializado en Prompts, web y seo -------------------------------------------------------------------- Soy un ingeniero de software con experiencia en el mundo SEO y Web. Últimamente me he enfocado mi en la ingeniería de prompts. Si quieres saber más de mi, ¡sigue leyendo! Mi portfolio ------------ Aquí puedes consultar algunos de mis trabajos web. Si quieres el tuyo, no dudes en ponerte en conctacto. Servicios para negocios y marcas -------------------------------- ### Ingeniería de Prompts Desarrollo de prompts a la medida de cada negocio para automatización de proceso con LLMs. ### Analítica & Dashboarding Creación de dashboards a medida para analizar al detalle cualquier aspecto de tu empresa, desde métricas de venta hasta el trabajo de los equipos. ### Posicionamiento SEO Consultoría de SEO técnico para posicionamiento Online en Buscadores. Auditorías técnicas y estrategias de contenido. ### Diseño y Desarrollo web Desarrollo de sitios web a medida. Enfoque Mobile First para un diseño adaptado a todos los dispositivos. Acerca de Guillermo Montero mi trayectoria -------------- Si quieres conocer más acerca de mi, puedes visitar una página donde cuento mi trayectoria con más detalles en el botón de abajo. Mi expertise ------------ Imagina lo que puedo hacer con tu negocio gracias a mi experiencia ### Comunicación interdisciplinar Encontrar el lenguaje común entre los equipos de técnicos y las decisiones de negocio para resultados óptimos. ### Optimización de procesos Optimización de procesos internos para mejorar el flujo de trabajo y reducir los tiempos de producción. ### Experiencia de Usuario Apasionado de centrar el trabajo en el usuario final para exprimir todo el potencial a cada proyecto. Algunas de las empresas con las que he trabajado ------------------------------------------------ ### Director SEO & Analytics Roilab Intelligence © 2014 Salyseo — Guillermo Montero

Updated September 11, 2024

What’s this site all about? Who are you? ---------------------------------------- Well first off, my name is Brent and I’m a product of the 80s. Growing up as the internet was finally becoming available at a consumer level I was always facinated with its potential. By the time I had graduated college I was spending an increasing amount of time writing and creating scripts and websites on it that I realized I needed a place of my own to call home. So brentter.com was born. At the time I was running a crowd-sourced photography site that was starting to see some real traffic so this was actually the second domain that I’d ever purchase. My day job was in advertising so it made sense for me to write about the industry. And I wrote A LOT. This website would become one of the top 20 ranked advertising blogs at the time but I was running myself thin. I started despising having to sit down to knock out a blog post or two in addition to everything that was going on when a few years prior I had loved it. It’d become more than a hobby and I already had a 2nd and 3rd job with my own side projects and client gigs. So I just turned off commenting site-wide and logged off. 6 months of no posts and I eventually gave it one last entry. It was about what I had just finished doing for a client. I had been writing up a bunch of SQL queries to bulk-edit a few thousand of his WordPress pages so that he wouldn’t have to go through and edit them one by one. Then about a year or so later I decided to just take it offline. The DB was actually still there, just I’d removed all the static files and replaced the homepage with some ASCII. This site was running WordPress and at that time the platform was just a security nightmare, especially if you weren’t actively monitoring it. I mean, it **still** is a security nightmare. If you’ve been keeping up with what’s been going on between the co-creator of Wordpress and WP Engine you’d also think the entire future of the platform seems like a nightmare too. So You’re Going To Start Posting Advertising Commercials Again? --------------------------------------------------------------- Well, maybe a few, but just some of my old favorites. With all the toxicity that now seems to be everywhere online I think we should all try to remember what it was like in the early days. Back when you were guaranteed at least a dozen AOL cds in the mail each week and AltaVista was the largest search engine. You’d go around and find sites that were there to share content with other people without looking for a marketing angle. You’d find their favorite blogrolls and web-rings, collections of stories or cool animated gifs - just sharing for the sake of sharing. I like that idea so I’m going to follow it. How’s Hugo? ----------- So far I’ve been enjoying working with Hugo. They really weren’t kidding when they talk about just how fast it is. The only downsides have been in the template system and how janky it can be at times and that every big update to Hugo means something important in the blog is going to break. It’s a work in progress. Cheers, ~Brent (Here’s a few spots where I can be found elsewhere on the web): GitHub Last.FM Gravatar IndieWeb Reddit Mastodon Ko-Fi Follow.is App Steam Keybase.io Flickr Twitter/x

Updated September 10, 2024

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Updated September 10, 2024

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Updated September 7, 2024

Now --- Now. Present. Alive. I guess… > Mostly staring into the abyss. Machine Learning + Human Learning + Existential Crises (pondering about knowledge, learning, life, universe and everything.) * * * (Last updated September 7, 2024) Hi, I am Nish ------------- You can call me whatever you like though. I am a paradox! Where Am I? ----------- Currently, I am working as a “Computer Scientist” at NASA-IMPACT. What Are You Working On? ------------------------ Computer Scientist at NASA IMPACT --------------------------------- I am at the intersection of Machine Learning research and engineering with NASA-funded projects, particularly focusing on Earth Science. My role involves delving into research problems, generating new ideas, and applying existing ones to solve challenges that advance our understanding of Earth systems. I’m a strong advocate for **open science**, and this aligns well with NASA-IMPACT’s mission to push boundaries in Earth Science through machine learning. ### Tools Some works include building tools like: * **Larch**: A composable and extensible framework for search, allowing for flexible search architectures and ranking algorithms. * **evalem**: An evaluation framework for machine learning pipelines, focused on assessing model performance and reliability. * **Data Transfer Evaluation Framework**: A benchmarking framework to evaluate large-scale data transfers between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Okay, what are you really working on? ------------------------------------- I am currently working in **Natural Language Processing/Understanding(NLP/NLU)**, especially with **Large Language Models (LLMs)**, leveraging their capabilities to empower machine learning workflows for various NASA projects. My current work involves – research + engineering – LLM training, fine-tuning, active learning, and implementing guardrails to ensure reliable model outputs. Additionally, the work also involve low-resource ML solutions where we’re dealing with low amount of data and smaller language models. Previously: GRA at UAH ---------------------- As a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), I focused on applied research for my master’s thesis, _Feature Selection in High-Dimensional Space with Applications to Gene Expression Data_. I collaborated with NASA’s Bio-Physical Science (BPS) team to develop machine learning-based gene ranking algorithms for space-flown rodents’ gene expression data. I presented my poster at AGU 22, which highlighted my ensemble-based ranking framework to identify significant genes contributing to physical attributes such as gender, age, and condition of the rodents. Final Slide Deck. > Beyond that, everything is in the past now, shaping my current work and philosophy as a researcher and a human being. Workshops+Presentation++ ------------------------ Additionally, I also love to actively engage in workshops and presentations to share insights on machine learning and LLMs, and to foster innovation in the Earth Science and AI community. * **NASA SMD AI Workshop (March 25-27, 2024)**: Volunteered and gave a talk/presentation on **Evaluating LLMs** in the context of Earth Science applications. This workshop brought together experts from various domains to explore the role of AI and ML in advancing NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) goals. Workshop details and speaker page. * **SRM University Hackathon & Workshop (April 2024, India)**: Conducted a workshop and organized a hackathon focused on leveraging machine learning workflows for **remote sensing** applications. This event aimed to encourage students to apply ML techniques to real-world challenges in Earth Science. LinkedIn post about the event. These experiences reflect my passion for knowledge-sharing and fostering a collaborative environment for innovation in AI and Open Science. Anything more? -------------- I am Nish. I don’t do much, except stare into the abyss and try to make sense of this paradox we call existence. BTW, I mostly document my thoughts in my personal knowledge base using logseq, which is open-source! It’s a bit chaotic, but it helps me stay grounded. **Vipassana Retreat**: Oh I also went for a 10-day Vipassana retreat at Idaho Falls in mid-July 2024. Whenver I am asked the question _“how was it?”_, I reply, “It was **transformative**”. :) I try to meditate whenever I am free of other works. Anyway, ------- ### bits-and-paradoxes newsletter I once started a newsletter that feels like a piece of the ancient past. Here it is: bits-and-paradoxes. ### What’s Your Daily Routine? * Wake up * Meditate (Vipassana/Anapana) * Feel gratitude and invoke **mettā** * Ponder (and feel dread) about ML research + engineering that’s hard to keep up each day * Explore the world with curiosity over opinions * Minimize consumption of HN/Reddit/LessWrong and noisy-internet in general. * Enjoy poetry, music, musings, et al * Stare into the abyss, equanimously (at least trying) #### What’s In Your Mind-Cave? > Life is a suffering-optimization algorithm! * * * * resume * Newsletter: bits-and-paradoxes * Home * mind-cave * the-void-kb * DeviantArt

Updated September 7, 2024

Now --- Now. Present. Alive. I guess… > Mostly staring into the abyss. Machine Learning + Human Learning + Existential Crises (pondering about knowledge, learning, life, universe and everything.) * * * (Last updated September 7, 2024) Hi, I am Nish ------------- You can call me whatever you like though. I am a paradox! Where Am I? ----------- Currently, I am working as a “Computer Scientist” at NASA-IMPACT. What Are You Working On? ------------------------ Computer Scientist at NASA IMPACT --------------------------------- I am at the intersection of Machine Learning research and engineering with NASA-funded projects, particularly focusing on Earth Science. My role involves delving into research problems, generating new ideas, and applying existing ones to solve challenges that advance our understanding of Earth systems. I’m a strong advocate for **open science**, and this aligns well with NASA-IMPACT’s mission to push boundaries in Earth Science through machine learning. ### Tools Some works include building tools like: * **Larch**: A composable and extensible framework for search, allowing for flexible search architectures and ranking algorithms. * **evalem**: An evaluation framework for machine learning pipelines, focused on assessing model performance and reliability. * **Data Transfer Evaluation Framework**: A benchmarking framework to evaluate large-scale data transfers between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Okay, what are you really working on? ------------------------------------- I am currently working in **Natural Language Processing/Understanding(NLP/NLU)**, especially with **Large Language Models (LLMs)**, leveraging their capabilities to empower machine learning workflows for various NASA projects. My current work involves – research + engineering – LLM training, fine-tuning, active learning, and implementing guardrails to ensure reliable model outputs. Additionally, the work also involve low-resource ML solutions where we’re dealing with low amount of data and smaller language models. Previously: GRA at UAH ---------------------- As a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), I focused on applied research for my master’s thesis, _Feature Selection in High-Dimensional Space with Applications to Gene Expression Data_. I collaborated with NASA’s Bio-Physical Science (BPS) team to develop machine learning-based gene ranking algorithms for space-flown rodents’ gene expression data. I presented my poster at AGU 22, which highlighted my ensemble-based ranking framework to identify significant genes contributing to physical attributes such as gender, age, and condition of the rodents. Final Slide Deck. > Beyond that, everything is in the past now, shaping my current work and philosophy as a researcher and a human being. Workshops+Presentation++ ------------------------ Additionally, I also love to actively engage in workshops and presentations to share insights on machine learning and LLMs, and to foster innovation in the Earth Science and AI community. * **NASA SMD AI Workshop (March 25-27, 2024)**: Volunteered and gave a talk/presentation on **Evaluating LLMs** in the context of Earth Science applications. This workshop brought together experts from various domains to explore the role of AI and ML in advancing NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) goals. Workshop details and speaker page. * **SRM University Hackathon & Workshop (April 2024, India)**: Conducted a workshop and organized a hackathon focused on leveraging machine learning workflows for **remote sensing** applications. This event aimed to encourage students to apply ML techniques to real-world challenges in Earth Science. LinkedIn post about the event. These experiences reflect my passion for knowledge-sharing and fostering a collaborative environment for innovation in AI and Open Science. Anything more? -------------- I am Nish. I don’t do much, except stare into the abyss and try to make sense of this paradox we call existence. BTW, I mostly document my thoughts in my personal knowledge base using logseq, which is open-source! It’s a bit chaotic, but it helps me stay grounded. **Vipassana Retreat**: Oh I also went for a 10-day Vipassana retreat at Idaho Falls in mid-July 2024. Whenver I am asked the question _“how was it?”_, I reply, “It was **transformative**”. :) I try to meditate whenever I am free of other works. Anyway, ------- ### bits-and-paradoxes newsletter I once started a newsletter that feels like a piece of the ancient past. Here it is: bits-and-paradoxes. ### What’s Your Daily Routine? * Wake up * Meditate (Vipassana/Anapana) * Feel gratitude and invoke **mettā** * Ponder (and feel dread) about ML research + engineering that’s hard to keep up each day * Explore the world with curiosity over opinions * Minimize consumption of HN/Reddit/LessWrong and noisy-internet in general. * Enjoy poetry, music, musings, et al * Stare into the abyss, equanimously (at least trying) #### What’s In Your Mind-Cave? > Life is a suffering-optimization algorithm! * * * * resume * Newsletter: bits-and-paradoxes * Home * mind-cave * the-void-kb * DeviantArt

Updated September 6, 2024

**General information** ----------------------- Hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University and Technical Co-sponsorship by the IEEE Information Theory Society, CISS 2025 is a forum for scientists, engineers, and academics to present their latest research results and developments in multiple areas of Information Sciences and Systems. Authors will present unpublished papers describing theoretical advances, applications, and ideas in the fields of: Information Theory, Communications, and Coding, Energy Systems, Signal and Image Processing, Systems and Control, Deep Learning, Networked Systems, Optimization, Quantum Systems, Machine Learning, Security and Privacy, Statistical Inference, Big Data Analytics, Biological Systems, Computer Vision, Cyber Physical Systems, Reinforcement Learning. Conference Coordinator Program Directors Important Dates Iris Unberath \[email protected\] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 Prof. Pablo Iglesias Prof. Yury Dvorkin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 **Submission deadline:** **December 7, 2024** **Notification of acceptance:** **January 27, 2025** **Final manuscript due:** **February 10, 2023**

Updated September 6, 2024

### New business I'm all in on my startup: Coachvox AI. We create artificially intelligent coaches based on thought leaders. Influential entrepreneurs and coaches work with us to clone themselves using AI and generate leads while building familiarity with their audience, 24/7. I believe in the future we'll all have an AI coach and it will feel totally normal. Create an AI version of you here. ### Running webinars I'm running webinars on AI for coaches and consultants, generating leads with an AI version of you, and how to find and use your superpowers. Subscribe to get the invitations. I'm posting on LinkedIn most weekdays. Say hey there. ### Powerlifting I just competed in the Arnolds Sports Festival and the Bench Press World Championships (video below). Having a break from competing in bench press to focus on deadlift. Got a number I'm determined to hit. ### Travel This year so far has been Cape Town, Croatia, San Diego, Austin, New Orleans, Miami, Vilnius and various places in the United Kingdom. I'm now in Barcelona until mid October. ### Currently reading Getting Things Done, by David Allen ### Current mantra Extreme people get extreme results ✨ You’ve successfully subscribed to Jodie Cook Welcome back! You’ve successfully signed in. Great! You’ve successfully signed up. Success! Your email is updated. Your link has expired Success! Check your email for magic link to sign-in.

Updated September 6, 2024

AboutContact * Not really freelancing. Currently in my clinical practicum working as an Art Therapist in a middle school counseling office. * Published my thesis: “**Use Cases for Art Therapy Intervention in Clinical Psychedelic Praxis**” and looking for opportunities to talk/write about it. * Parenting a kid, DIYing the house, listening so many books. * Using my voice to advocate for the liberation of Palestine. Updated: 6 Sept 2024

Updated September 4, 2024

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