Grumpy Old Nerd

Because time is a flat circle and everything sucks now, I'm moving this blog off the accursed Wix platform in the coming weeks and back to a self-hosted solution. With the increase in AI-driven enshittification across every fucking surface of our lives I'm finally taking a little bit of ownership of my own content and doing things the hard and rewarding way. The new platform isn't the old platform, but it's pretty close to what I have here, the features actually work (because

... and why I’ll probably never do it again. My daily driver is a 2017 Subaru WRX. This is partially because I’m a 13 year old child...

I've played this stupid sport on and off since I was five. I quit for most of my 30's however as we were living in North America and I...

The other day I was trying to come up with an idea for a new side project. It was proving difficult. Things are pretty slow at work...

In the last week OpenAI released the latest version of their chatbot based on deep learning, ChatGPT. It's been quietly taking the tech...

It started in my early 20's. There would be days I'd wake up and my right ear would just feel "off". Not something acute, but a...

A friend of mine passed away suddenly and tragically last Friday. We weren't super close but he was a well-known and much-loved member of...

I wanted to write this up before the expansion draft this evening to get on the record with my final selections. The rumor mill is...

This is the 5th and final instalment of my series on reinforcement learning. This post will be a lot longer than previous posts; as the...

This is the long-overdue 4th instalment of my blog post series on reinforcement learning. Due to some craziness at work and in my...

It really hasn't been a great couple of weeks for the Vancouver Canucks. With the team sidelined due to COVID-19 and literally every...

I'm very much a kinaesthetic learner which means that I learn best by getting hands on and trying things, making mistakes and figuring...

This is the second part of a 5-part blog series on reinforcement learning. In part one we learned a bit about what reinforcement...

I am a member of the Victoria District Cricket Association (VDCA) here in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. Given the relative...

One of my learning objectives for 2021 was to figure out just what the hell this reinforcement learning thing is and how it works. Having...

Note: I wrote this during quarantine in late 2020 when I had literally nothing better to do and apparently never published it....

It started with a viral Tweet asking people to name three perfect albums. It spawned a ton of responses from people I follow on Twitter,...

It's no secret that the Canucks have mismanaged themselves into salary cap hell over the last few years. Albatross contracts abound,...

An Australian living in Canada, I joined the local cricket association and found a weekend club a few seasons ago because I'm a...

I was pumped for this record to come out, having been a longtime fan of A Perfect Circle and Tool, but honestly when I first listened to...