I describe an alternate approach to multimodal inference that is structurally very different from most approaches to multimodal foundation models and offers some advantages compared to them.

I migrated my personal website from Pelican 3.7 to Pelican 4.11 using Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic AI coding tool. Here's what changed and how it went.

🎉 Personal Milestones

• My Son graduated high school and is heading to UW–Madison to study engineering — a proud moment for both of us.
• My Daughter performed in two major dance performances, and she continues to impress me with her dedication and skill.
• Dancing my wife and I have been dancing …

I'm starting to work on a year in review (2025 edition). As part of that, I wanted to create a map of my travels. That turned into a little project to use claude code. I made a tool that will extract date and location from a set of photos (one …

Cassville Checkers is a marble racing board game that has been played by my wife's family for generations. I used Claude Code to build an RL environment and web interface for the game.

In 2019, Rich Sutton authored an essay entitled “The Bitter Lesson”, where he made the observation that general purpose methods that leverage computation eventually win over bespoke solutions that incorporate human domain knowledge. The essay has been the source of debate and evoked both positive and negative reactions.

Within the …