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 …

I created this pedagogical example about simulation-based inference for a set of lectures that I gave in Paris in July 2025 for the University of Chicago's AI for Science summer school. The repository is here and it includes instructions on how to run the tutorial on your own machine.