Hello 👋 and welcome to my page! My name is Daniel, and I am a software engineer interested in systems programming (Rust, C, etc.) and fullstack development.
I would describe myself as a generalist and visual learner who likes tinkering with technology. Some of my interests include playing with computers, learning about the world around me, reading, playing Go (Baduk), posting stuff to Github, building RC aircraft, keeping up with emerging tech trends, etc, etc.
TensorNote: a self-organizing notebook
SketchTacToe: a responsive tic-tac-toe game with SVG vector graphics and an AI
Simulated CPU: a 8 bit CPU design in a physics simulator
BatchPong: Pong, but written in Windows Batch script 🤯
RigMonkey: helping people build their next gaming PC (2021)
EcoRare: a project for UW's Environmental Innovation Challenge (2023)
Let's be honest. Academia these days is floundering. In the STEM world, real scientific advances are being stifled by the replication crisis, toxic environments within labs, PHD burnout, and the politics of grant writing. Research into breakthroughs such as immunotherapy and RNA vaccines ends up being overlooked where it could otherwise have impacted millions of lives. […]
Nobody disputes the usefulness of large language models. LLMs can do "intellectual grunt work", such as suggesting a well-placed word for an essay or filling in the background of an artwork. This is a huge value add and breakthrough because it cuts the effort needed to produce a creative work in half, even if it makes mistakes (hallucinations). […]
Smart people and entrepreneurs need to consume, generate, and process massive amounts of information these days to maximize their success in the knowledge economy. These energetic people are bursting at the seams with thoughts, ideas, commentary, newly learned subjects, and more. It becomes hard to stay on top of things due to information overload: the exponentially rising difficulty and time commitment of organizing large amounts of diverse information across different services/platforms. […]