This is a quick primer to key aspects of batteries for someone like me who knows a little about software but not very much about electrical engineering, power systems or embedding programming.

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Batteries are key technological component in many …

Electricity markets are can be quite complex. They have many features which are atypical of other commodity markets, and are not frequently discussed in econ 101. For instance, my microeconomics textbooks has nearly three chapters on the environment, pollution and …

I researched the limits of large language models (LLMs) in October last year. I’m not sure it’s possible to have an interest in ML/AI and not be aware of the enormous surge in the public consciousness. It …

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Sometimes, you read something unexpected. I was looking through this paper on statistical perspectives on representation learning and came across this family of methods: “sliced inverse regression.” Sliced inverse regression? What the heck? I think I have a reasonable …

Computer graphics is full of wizardry but the demo scene is populated by arch-wizards. The community has some very talented people and there’s lots to learn (like ray marching and signed distance functions). I tried my hand at a …

There’s some wacky stuff in the Jupyter ecosystem. Still, one thing that really stood out for me was the extension of Jupyter notebooks into web development and their interaction with the JavaScript ecosystem. So web assembly is a thing …

Sometimes I like to write a little js in my blog posts. Here is an example of how to embed a javascript file in a pelican article.

Below the fold, is an example of embedding a js chart into a …

It’s been a little while since I’ve updated my website. Here’s some thoughts revisiting this older code. In particular I want to evaluate whether using Pelican has been worthwhile and record some answers to natural questions I …

I enjoyed this talk introduction by Allison Kaptur - “Bytes in the Machine” which provides easy but insightful introduction to the CPython intepreter. Worth watching if you’d like to know more about how CPython is implemented and what exactly the …