Marton Trencseni - Tue 16 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, first-principles
I describe Elon Musk's First Principles Thinking model through several examples: SpaceX, Warren Buffet's Berkshire, Google's organization design, Python's language design, Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 14 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, growth-mindset, eisenhower-matrix, tuckman, cynefin, scarf
I describe the following mental models useful in leadership and self-management: the Growth Mindset, Eisenhower Matrix, Tuckman Model, Cynefin Framework, SCARF Model.
Marton Trencseni - Fri 12 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, iceberg, thinking-hats, trust-euqation, ooda
I describe the following mental models useful in leadership and self-management: Iceberg Model, Six Thinking Hats, Trust Equation, Circle of Influence and OODA Loop.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 07 May 2023 • Tagged with gpt, python, gnews, ai
I show how I used GNews and the OpenAI API to build GPT News Poet, a fun toy site showing silly AI poems based on today's news.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 15 April 2023 • Tagged with cpp, async, message, queue, chatgpt
I try to get ChatGPT to write the codes in the previous posts. It's able to write the basic message queue skeleton, but it cannot implement more complicated features such as delivery semantics with caching; also, the code crashes. C++ programmers do not (yet) need to fear for their jobs.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 08 April 2023 • Tagged with cpp, async, message, queue
I write a somewhat more complicated, but still relatively simple async message queue server in modern C++20.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 02 April 2023 • Tagged with cpp, async, message, queue
I write a simple, bi-directional async message queue server in modern C++20.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 05 March 2023 • Tagged with python, async, message, queue, chatgpt
I try to get ChatGPT to write the codes in the previous posts. It's able to write the basic message queue skeleton, but cannot implement more complicated features such as delivery semantics with caching.
Marton Trencseni - Thu 02 March 2023 • Tagged with python, async, message, queue
I write a somewhat more complicated, but still relatively simple async message queue server in Python.
Marton Trencseni - Mon 27 February 2023 • Tagged with python, async, message, queue
I write a simple, bi-directional async message queue server in Python.
Marton Trencseni - Sun 05 February 2023 • Tagged with lifelong, purchase, victorinox
What are some of my buy-it-for-life purchases?
Marton Trencseni - Fri 27 January 2023 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, ftx, ftt
I argue that virtual goods such as in-game skins make more sense in a centralized walled-garden approach, and NFTs tracked and traded on blockchains are legally problematic.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 21 January 2023 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, ftx, ftt
I argue that a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin has a weird property: the more you buy of it, the less valuable it becomes.
Marton Trencseni - Fri 20 January 2023 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, ftx, ftt
I argue that anonymity, irreversibility and decentralization, while interesting technical features that implemented in a fascinating way using cryptographic primites, are not practical for real-world use.
Marton Trencseni - Mon 09 January 2023 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, fiat
Are cryptocurrencies really better than fiat currencies? I argue that the answer is negative.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 24 December 2022 • Tagged with crypto, bitcoin, btc, ftx, ftt
The crypto space is a fascinating intersection of technology, economics and human psychology. However, I remain skeptical of the value of crypto tokens and NFTs. Here I explain my thought process using FTX Tokens as an example.
Marton Trencseni - Wed 21 December 2022 • Tagged with similarity, python, word2vec, doc2vec, pytorch, tensorflow
I use Doc2Vec to try to find pairs of similar API functions between Pytorch and Tensorflow.
Marton Trencseni - Sat 17 December 2022 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-3
I run experiments to determine whether, or to what degree, GPT-3 has developed an comprehension of spatial relationships.
Marton Trencseni - Thu 15 December 2022 • Tagged with book, management, engineering
I reflect on the core points of Fred Brooks' seminal book, The Mythical Man-Month, that I often recall and apply in my daily work.
Marton Trencseni - Mon 12 December 2022 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-3
Here I will show a "conversation" with GPT-3 to gauge how good an astrophysicist — or an illusion of an astrophysicist — it is. I will focus on cosmology questions, because that's most interesting part of the field.
