saw Green Day a couple days ago, now I have seen two of favorite bands, Linkin Park and Green Day, perfom live in the same month, both for the first time, this has been a really good month

saw this post on HN to tell the time in corporate, so made an internal one for my org cause our fiscal year starts in July, which makes things very confusing

went to an AI event couple days ago where a person was demoing how amazing cursor is. The goal was to build a simple blogging website in next js where you can create blogs post and each blog has their own page and then list all the blog posts on the homepage. And everything is done by vibe coding using the composer feature of cursor. The speaker started the project from scratch three times and did multiple iterations each time over the duration of an hour but the blog didn't work and got build error each time no matter how much fix he tried

now all of this wasn't so bad. This kind of thing happens all the time with live coding demos but what's interesting is that before demo started, the speaker did a little introduction for cursor. They used the fact that microsoft said people who use gihub copilot are 55% faster and there was a dig at microsoft that if you're 55% faster by using something made by microsoft, you'll be at least 80% faster by using anything else (like cursor). Seems like the only thing that was 80% faster was how quickly the errors showed up!

finally saw linkin park live

was reading about model merging yesterday. This model merging paper from Sakana AI and the followup using quality diversity is just amazing. Second paper is very hard to understand so I'd definitely recommend at least reading the first one
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13187
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14735