Welcome to my online paper trail. I am Stedman Blake Hood. I am also:
- Eminently nerd snipe-able
- Hopeless extrovert
- Bootstrapped & sold Retriever.co
- Alum of @YCombinator
- Former statistics researcher at @FederalReserve
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Recent Posts
Thank you, Retriever
I just e-signed a special document. There was nothing special looking about it – no confetti or streamers to indicate that this document was any different from the hundreds of others that I’ve e-signed over the years. I paused before submitting my signature, realizing that this was the last moment of a three-and-a-half-year chapter in … Continue reading Thank you, Retriever
Reprogramming your brain (the easy way)
TLDR Self-limiting narratives are controlling you. You can break free of them by reprogramming your brain to stop believing them by reciting positive affirmations that contradict those stories. I do this by posting these affirmations on my phone’s lock screen. Now, every time I pick up my phone, I see an affirmation that counters a … Continue reading Reprogramming your brain (the easy way)
Horticulture Capitalism
I recently finished reading “How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century” by the late Olin Wright. His premise is that capitalism is an inherently “rapacious system”, which must be dismantled, smashed, or otherwise eroded. Afterwards, I thought of Churchill’s old quote about democracy. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed … Continue reading Horticulture Capitalism
Introducing GPT Explorer
Today Cathy, Zain, and I open sourced GPT Explorer. Explorer is a power tool for GPT-3 experimentation with full history, sharing, and the community’s best-practices built-in. If you’re just getting started with GPT-3 or don’t want to build out your own boilerplate codebase, try the hosted version: Explorer. The source is available here. A UI for experimentation To get good results … Continue reading Introducing GPT Explorer
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too busy at work to use PTO to take a vacation
BUT
today i realized I can use PTO to say "hey sorry im on PTO" and not go to meetings or talk to people and catch up on work
Ostensibly freedom-loving California-to-Texas tech transplants have been conspicuously silent on a day when women have lost their freedoms.
That $6.4 trillion we spent on war post 9/11 is about $85,000 per American family
Personal news!* 😄
https://stedmanblake.com/2021/08/03/thank-you-retriever/
*actually professional news 😑
The year is 2030. All asset classes (equities, real estate, crypto) are 100% correlated and have merged into a single security called “stock”. People buy/sell it based on how they feel about the future. It fluctuates wildly and defies modeling, mirroring the human condition.
Other than cost and a potentially very high probability of never being revived, what do you think the strongest arguments are AGAINST cryonics (i.e., having yourself frozen at very low temps upon death, with hopes future tech will be able to revive you and you can keep living)
If you are scientifically literate, and you have pushed back against woke anti-intellectualism, but refrain from pushing back against anti-vax statistical incompetency because it comes from "your side," then I question your fealty to defending the truth.
A robot just called my phone, said "There is a semantic error in the application, goodbye," and hung up
Cathy just open sourced a bi-directional infinite scroll package that was critical for http://Dispatch.do. If you're building a chat app, you'll need this.
Show some love on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27619893
Try it here: https://cathykc.github.io/bx-stable-infinite-scroll/
https://cathykc.github.io/bx-stable-infinite-scroll/
Open-sourced a stable bidirectional infinite scroll component from http://dispatch.do. Pull requests, issue submissions very welcome 🙂