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Who do I have to kill to get access to GPT-3?
OpenAI

Who do I have to kill to get access to GPT-3?

No, seriously. Who? Give me a name. I have seen some amazing demos come from people using OpenAI's new API. It's stunning how it can predict the text that follows from some basic input and little training. Here's a sentence describing what Google'
15 Jul 2020 1 min read
Is Wall Street more similar to or more different than Silicon Valley? (& other ramblings)

Is Wall Street more similar to or more different than Silicon Valley? (& other ramblings)

For some reason this question popped into my head this weekend. I'm not sure about the full depths of the answer. However, it seems to me that they both share similar outputs and inputs. The more I thought about it, the more I got wrapped up with thinking
13 Apr 2020 1 min read
Cabin Fever Amidst a Stay-At-Home Order

Cabin Fever Amidst a Stay-At-Home Order

I'm a person who normally does fine when confined for prolonged periods of time. However, I am also a person who does certain tricks to keep myself productive. One of the tricks I rely on heavily is to switch my environment I am working within. For those of
04 Apr 2020 3 min read
Angel Investing & The Tax Incentives Behind It (Illinois)

Angel Investing & The Tax Incentives Behind It (Illinois)

It's tax season already. This post is based on this one over here and I am not a tax person so please consult a professional. I thought I'd make a short post about the crazy tax incentives behind the crazy amounts of money that get thrown
15 Feb 2020 1 min read
Defining Entrepreneurship
entrepreneur

Defining Entrepreneurship

I thought I'd write a short and abstract blog entry about the way I think about entrepreneurship. The Role An entrepreneur makes certainty out of the uncertain. Whether it be through providing a stable paycheck to an employee, or by providing a reliable product/service to a customer.
05 Feb 2020 3 min read
The Duality of Automation

The Duality of Automation

Technology is making life both easier and harder. Originally written March 8, 2019 This was written last year and is not meant to be a political endorsement. It is merely an exploration of job loss due to automation. Technology creates change within our society and the rate of change seems
05 Feb 2020 5 min read
Using ghost as the proving ground

Using ghost as the proving ground

One of the things I am going to experiment with in the near future is using ghost's experimental membership feature to create and launch services in a short time. It has just the right amount of features that I like to see and stripe is already integrated with
31 Dec 2019 1 min read
In-person marketplace listing tool

In-person marketplace listing tool

One piece of software I worked on earlier this year was an in-person marketplace listing tool for selling goods. It posts items to Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, and Letgo. You just give it a picture, title, price, and description and within a minute it is on all three marketplaces. The focus
31 Dec 2019 2 min read
Recognizing Playing Cards

Recognizing Playing Cards

Okay, time to begin a project I've been putting off all year. I've got a table of already computed values, and an already trained model for object detection in images. Time to start having some fun. The results are pretty disappointing. However, what's more
21 Dec 2019 3 min read
ghost.org piqued my interest
Goals

ghost.org piqued my interest

Just heard about this competitor to WordPress and got very excited. I thought ghost was the perfect chance to build out my devmandan.com site and get better with AWS by self-hosting. Thanks to Ethan Ide for telling me about ghost. You can learn more about ghost by listening to
18 Dec 2019 1 min read
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