I'm a full time Rust (& less-time: Python and C) software engineer specializing in planning systems, though I have worked in state estimation and analytics in the past. I currently work at FlightScience.ai. For a more official look see ↗ josh.vanderhook.info.

# latest posts

Holidays are history

The progression of USA/Minnesota holidays reads like a winter survival guide view full post
history writing

A prescient quote from Blindsight

maybe the Singularity happened years ago, we just don’t want to admit we were left behind. view full post
ai books writing

Who runs the doomsday machine?

Calling AI a doomsday risk fits well with calls to centralize and limit access to it. view full post
ai llm rants

About that Hugging Face hack

Please can we move past treating these as ‘impartial moralty tests for all of AI’ and ignoring OpenAI’s incentives? view full post
ai llm

About that jr hiring freeze

A portfolio stopped signalling effort or talent, so the portfolio-only candidate lost their value view full post
ai llm software-engineering writing

# some external projects

KDA-tools @ crates.io/crates/kda-tools

  • Moneyball utilities for any game with a KDA. cargo install kda-tools
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AFT Scorecard @ aft.jodavaho.io

  • An Army Fitness Test scorecard. Shows your score, works offline, tracks progress over time.
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Space Missions @ api.jodavaho.io/s/

  • Calculating interesting things for some of my favorite NASA missions.
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AENAC Devices @ aenac.dev

  • Networked devices that are: Rugged Repairable Openly Extensible and Manufactured in the USA.
  • (not as active as I'd like)

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