Phil 1.5.2025

The theme for 2026 continues:

  • “In some cases, one of the biggest problems Venezuelans have is they have to declare independence from Cuba,” Rubio added. “They tried to basically colonize it from a security standpoint. So, yeah, look, if I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least a little bit.”

The Sortition Foundation organizes democratic lotteries for citizens’ assemblies and support the 858 Project: a campaign to replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens.

Washington Post: Recovering from AI delusions means learning to chat with humans again

Tasks

  • Write email for ACM book proposal and send it off. DONE! Acknowledged, even!

SBIRs

  • 9:00 Sprint demos. Need to make some slides! Done.
  • 3:00 Sprint planning. Done
  • Kick off the next round, but in the background so I can use the IDE – running. Done! 44,297 files
  • Rewrite the UMAP app so that it:
    • Reads through a specified number of series for files to get the embeddings (-1 == ALL FILES)
    • Build the UMAP structure and save it out
    • Time/memory checks for different number of files. Let’s not start with 70k books
    • Visualization of files. We can probably use the spreadsheet if we want more information than the title.
  • Maybe work on the white paper for Dr. J?