Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
Yesterday I was reflecting on how much I love riding a bike. I rode in the early evening from North Berkeley to West Oakland, winding my way through so many interesting neighborhoods, feeling so happy and free. For as long as I can remember, I have ridden bikes. As a child, summers were all about…
I think about this brief section of The Little Prince very often, but particularly now. The next day the little prince came back. “It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three ơ’clock I shall…
Last night I led my first choreo skill share at the 6th ave skate rink, for about 20 folks, a line dance called “The Stand Up” that I modified to be a skate routine. Line dances are not normally my thing. I find choreography often frustrating to learn. And something in me resists doing the…
I enjoy riding the BART, our local intercity train system. It’s a great place to meditate. One of my favorite meditation practices is to silently hold in the light the people around me. I casually scan the car and take each person in — the bedraggled young man lying across two seats in a stupor,…
Some friends last night were complaining about all the outrageous things that this administration is doing that feel like an accelerating slide toward fascism. “I just want to just hide and play with my phone and pretend it isn’t happening,” one friend said. “That’s how they win,” I argued. “Yeah, but how do you stay…
I got the results back from an MRI scan I had done a couple of weeks ago at UCSF, as part of a long COVID study I’m participating in. I don’t have the knowledge to interpret the findings, but the scans of my brain are pretty fascinating to look at. It’s hard to believe that…
The year 2025 was a year of sad endings, but also some exciting new beginnings. Let’s start with the good stuff. Relationship Status Change! In the “wins” column, I started seeing someone in August! In the midst of all the hits I took this year, finding a kind, fun, beautiful girlfriend is the big boost…
I used the LLM Claude to “vibe code” a simple game using basic prompts. Here is the result. Quick Thoughts: The larger issue is that while this kind of works, it is a terrible game, and I don’t know enough about coding to be able fix or improve it. So while this LLM can produce…
I prompted Claude AI to build this for me. Let’s see if it works. This version is hosted on Claude itself. Here’s another version I hosted on Netlify.
I enjoyed more than I expected Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s book The Worlds I See, a chronicle of one scientist’s research into the emergent field of artificial intelligence. The most moving sections for me were Dr. Fei-fei’s personal story as a young Chinese immigrant, trying to navigate through American society with her family. There was a…