What if my value system is completely “wrong”? This post offers a way of thinking about grading values. It doesn’t by any means commit the hubris of defining the right ones. It rather offers ra...
Scalable generative AI tools
Jinifai MVP Jinifai is a side project I worked on, to play with diffusion models and microservices. It is a scalable web application offering generative AI tools for creating images. It is build...
NYU 2021 Deep Learning course overview and notes
TLDR With one word, did I like it? Absolutely. In my opinion, the most important benefit from the course is LeCun’s distilled wisdom. You will understand the current state of deep learning espec...
My Notes Collection
I have created a lot of notes over the years for a wide array of topics. Here I share a few of them. They are quite large so use the Document Outline for convenient navigation. Line...
Satisfaction Unit Parity
Purchasing power parity While I was thinking about the pharaoh and the millionaire, a major issue that troubled me, was to fundamentally understand a way to measure and compare wealth across time ...
Bitcoin in the west
Hedging against hyperinflation and authoritarianism Appreciating the value proposition of bitcoin is much easier if you are a citizen of a failed state. Environments where the local currency is co...
The pharaoh and the millionaire
A dynamic limit to the top A few weeks ago as I was scrolling on twitter, I came across this tweet from naval, a person I greatly respect. It deals with an issue that made quite a noise, the iss...
Animations with d3 and react
Learning React and its ecosystem Well, after the unpleasant experience of creating a single page web application without using a front-end framework, learning one, was a top priority. Since I real...
Thinking about intelligence
Investigating my intuitions Motivated by the mysterious nature of human reasoning, during 2019, I found the time to start exploring the world of artificial intelligence, choosing though a rather ...
Zakanda technical overview
Introduction zakanda is my first entrepreneurial endeavor which… failed miserably. You can read the juicy details in my epic fail as a sports betting entrepreneur story. It was aspired to be a sp...