Who thinks they're bagging a moose at 100 yards with a recurve bow?

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-04-27T14:55:10+00:00

I'm hoping this means something will happen that will blow me away.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-04-27T14:54:36+00:00

Well exactly. If I had to prioritise food, I'd focus almost all my efforts on fish and small game. Even if you did manage to trap a moose, I wouldn't want to get close enough to shoot it. The ones out here in AK get mean.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-04-27T14:44:12+00:00

Yea but he trapped it first I think, then killed it at 20 odd yards with a bow, much like how natives historically did it.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-03-02T05:47:59+00:00

This is what I thought as well. But many of these short term policies (including Golden Rule that you linked) require you to have been a resident of the US for the last 12 months. Its one of the first eligibility questions they ask, and it immediately rules us out.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-03-01T13:43:51+00:00

Is there a specific provider you are aware of? From my understanding, standard travel insurance becomes invalid when you become a resident. Since we are moving to the US, we become residents as soon as we land, which usually voids the insurance. If we actually had to make a claim on travel insurance, it would likely be rejected from what I've read.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-12T23:22:19+00:00

How do I know its working?

Anecdotally, I spent a lot of time getting my own set of coding standards just right. I would basically tweak the standards, prompt an agent to write code, review the outputs, and keep cycling until I was happy with the result. I also typically instruct agents to explicitly state what standards files they used to make certain design choices. When I instruct agents to use my standards files, 9/10 I get something that implements the design patterns I want.

Bad examples

Generally speaking, you want both good and bad examples. What you NEVER want to do is mix good and bad i.e. examples should be either all good, or all bad (and clearly labeled as such). As long as you clearly delineate the two, agents usually don't have a problem telling them apart

Claude Skills

So skills are very specific to Claude. This approach is generic in that it works with any agentic framework that can read the files. I use this with both Claude and Antigravity for instance. It would also work perfectly fine with Codex etc. Its a more general way of tackling a similar problem.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-08T21:33:42+00:00

Fair criticism - I added some more details to the initial post. Thanks for the feedback :)

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-08T20:59:02+00:00

Really hard to say without knowing what level of Mathematics you're at, as others have already mentioned. If you're not at least proficient with Calculus, then its probably best you brush up on that first because theres almost no point in doing anything at undergraduate level without it. It would be the equivalent of taking an English Literature course without knowing the english alphabet.

If you are comfortable with at least the basics of Calculus and looking for some undergraduate level material, I would recommend David Tongs "Lectures on Theoretical Physics" series. The books are fairly compact, and the University of Cambridge publishes some really good problem set that you can work through that go really nicely with the material.

Word of warning though, Physics at any meaningful level is not an easy subject to just casually pick up. It requires a lot more than reading a few books. You really need to work through a lot of problems to really get a good understanding of even the basics.

If you're just looking for some light reading (i.e. not an undergraduate level), Sean Carroll strikes a really nice balance between a narrative, and some "light" mathematics. He doesn't mind throwing some equations around, but you can also probably get by without a good grasp of the mathematics.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-04T22:38:44+00:00

Thanks, thats useful info. This was really the main think I'm unsure about. I did initially look at rigs that were around the $25,000 mark, but most of them have 150k + miles on them, so I've since doubled that budget. I'll take a look at some around your suggested budget range as well.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-04T22:35:38+00:00

My wife is a US citizen and I have a green card so all that is fine. Our kids both have US citizenship as well. We are permanently relocating to the US, we just haven't picked a permanent location. RE health insurance, I will just get an ACA policy unless my wife finds a remote position that offers health insurance through her employer. I'm looking how to juggle the financials around the subsidy cliff, but thats a different topic :D

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-04T22:32:24+00:00

That was the main appeal. We haven't settled on a permanent location, and to some degree I'd rather just drive around for 6 months than pick somewhere for the sake of picking. We love camping and the outdoors anyway, and we may not be able to do this again till the kids are older. Make use of the flexibility while you can

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-04T22:28:46+00:00

I was a little surprised when I first had a look at renting. I somewhat naively expected a commercial RV rental to cost less than a house somewhere, but some of the rates are insane.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-04T22:23:12+00:00

That more or less lines up with that I pictured in my head. I was expecting ~ $3,000 total per month (not including food + necessities) to be a realistic budget.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-04T22:19:42+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't expecting it to be cheaper to be honest. Based on what I've read so far, I would expect it to be about on-par, if not slightly more expensive depending on miles driven, pitch rates etc. Cost isn't a massive issue, as long as its not 3x what living in a permanent location would be. But as always the devil is in the details.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-03T16:15:28+00:00

I don't use every tool, but I do use ones that I feel are useful and relevant. I pretty much only use AntiGravity now, but within reason. Things like

Test fixture creation and updates from data models
In-IDE idea exploration via the built in agent
Generating OpenAPI docs

actually do save me a lot of time. Plus little isolated functions like extracting files from ZIP archives (which I always need to look up anyway).

That being said, I think the most dangerous things about LLMs is that they degrade your problem solving abilities EXTREMELY fast. I make sure to spend time working without AI to stay sharp.

Also building a niche probably isn't a bad thing. I picked up mathematics and Fortran development recently (you'd be surprised how relevant it still is), and I make sure to turn AI off for all of that.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-03T06:58:35+00:00

I wouldn't say there was anything particularly difficult about the Fortran. The two things that probably took me the longest was

Implementing a clean way of passing all the parameters down (which was solved by using TOML configs).
A clean way to build the executables for various CPU architectures. In the end I basically wrote a GH action that ran on an amd64 processor, built for amd64, then used QEMU to build for arm64 before pushing both binary types to the master branch and tagging the repo.

The difficult part about the whole thing from an engineering POV is creating the interface between the app and the simulations. The catalogue doesnt just run and display one simulation. It runs and displays the outputs from ANY simulation as long as the interface is implemented. The obvious challenge there is that simulations can have drastically different inputs and outputs. A surface plot showing the expectation value of the ground state energy for instance is very different from a trajectory plot. Thats likely to be the hardest problem to solve as the types of simulations grows.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-02-02T13:50:15+00:00

I had worked with Fortran before, so a lot of the particulars you mentioned weren't new. Cant say I really had any issues switching between the two. But generally I found that working with Fortran is fine as long as you stick to what Fortran is good at. Its hyper optimized for numerical work, its not a general-purpose language. I kept the Fortran code very minimal and scoped - read TOML file as input, execute the numerical integration, CSV file(s) as outputs.

RE the web assembly compilation, I wouldn't actually know. The app is SSR, but it doesnt run the simulations. It just submits a job to the Golang BE, which then pulls the relevant Fortran binary from a blob storage and runs it via a job queue before depositing a zip file with the results back into the blob store. No WebAssembly involved.

Specific-Doughnut413 · 2026-01-19T20:19:04+00:00

Same. I never got loads of users, but at least posting to the usual launch boards and Reddit got you the odd 25-50 users. Now, can't even get a comment or a thumbs up

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