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Writing
Long-form notes on language models, products and lived use. Each piece keeps its original publication date and context.
Six Months with Meta Ray-Ban Display: Not the Final Form, but It Changed How I Record Life
A six-month field report on hands-free recording, teleprompting, privacy, wearability and why this imperfect pair of display glasses still fits my life.
DeepSeek's Breakout: Technology, Hype and the Story Behind It
A contemporaneous January 2025 essay on DeepSeek V3 and R1, training efficiency, open-source competition and the market narrative around them.
LLaMA 3: Opening a New Chapter for Large Language Models
A release-day technical note on LLaMA 3, covering its tokenizer, GQA, context window, training data scale and the case for heavily trained smaller models.