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2024 Feb Summary

No snow, kids are precocious, work is bumpy, and playing board games! view full post

I’ve been really into the Undaunted: Stalingrad game. Have been playing a lot less Hunt showdown, since I’ve been travelling, doing jury duty, and working more on this blog and other side projects.

I’m noodling a new personal finance side project, this one might actually be of general use. Highfleet Opt is still living, and we hope to do more work on it.

The kids are precocious, learning ownership and boundaries, trying to sound out letters for words (at our prompt, mostly), and being extremely energetic at home. It’s quite a workout.

Wife and I are running up to a 6mi goal for her marathon relay. We enjoyed a nice trip to Mexico lately for a wedding.

Work at Outrider is pretty nuts. Busy, for sure. Some friends have left, which is always a bummer. I am really proud of the work we did there to speed up the multi-agent planner by 100x (minutes to less than a second, max of 10s of minutes to a few seconds). I’d love to do more of that deep technical work. But 99% of all problems in software are interfaces, as in interfaces between teams and management and processes, so that’s always where the trouble will be.

I cannot believe we have no snow. None at all. Last year this time we had a least 18", with it piled up to 4' on each side of my driveway.

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