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Waiting for snow

We still haven't been skiing yet this year. This is the worst recorded year since the USDA/NRCS has been tracking snow depth at Bogus Basin.

Guessing a book's page length from the audiobook's duration

Are page-lengths and listening-times comparable? Some basic analysis using my collection of finished books.

How are we feeling about LLMs? (part 2): waiting for (model) collapse

Part 2 of my midyear temperature check on LLMs. An aside on how useful these tools are for software development, and my thoughts on Shumailov et al.'s 2024 paper covering model collapse.

LLMs can't perform the software engineering loop

LLMs don't yet have "memory", which is a problem for software engineering tasks.

How are we feeling about LLMs in 2025? (part 1)

A temperature check: how I'm feeling regarding the state of LLMs mid-2025, their uses related to software development, etc.

Using Minesweeper to think about object oriented programming

Some alternative examples, rather than the classic Animal, Dog, and Cat.

No Kings

v2.0.0 of ndrewwm.com

My site has been overhauled! Here's what I changed.

All done with MATH-401

Done with my final project (and my program)

TIL: VS Code's keybindings.json file

Something I hadn't tinkered with before today: how to map keys to commands in VS Code.

Jobs where you control 20% of GDP and you test in prod

Moving fast and breaking the Treasury Department's IT (this is bad).

Books I read in 2024

Summaries of each of the books I read (or listened to) during 2024.

Gathering my listening history from Spotify

Using components of the "modern data stack" to track what I've been listening to on a daily basis.

Moving to SvelteKit

I rebuilt my blog using Sveltekit. Here's what I learned.

Relationship of lands played with game winrate, MKM

Examining how the number of lands a player includes is related to their success in traditional (best-of-three) draft games in MKM.

Books I read in 2023

Summaries and reflections on what I read in 2023.

Books I read in 2022

Notes on the books I read (and listened to) during 2022.

Estimating the potential of THL in AFR limited

Using data from 17lands.com to determine how effective the card "Tasha's Hideous Laughter" is in limited gameplay.

Hey, separation plots are kinda cool.

Reading Greenhill, Ward, & Sacks (2011), and building separation plots in R.

How should I get started with R?

Consolidating my thoughts for newcomers to the R-language.