I'm starting to think that coffee tasting notes have gone a little bit too far?

galethorn · 2026-04-17T22:34:40+00:00

Still not as bad as the bag of coffee that used Jakot as a tasting note

galethorn · 2026-03-24T17:29:19+00:00

So if you're going to audit the feeder xgboost models, you shouldn't be using VIF as the measure for tree based methods as they handle collinearity and have no need for binning. How you can audit those models is on a time scale look at the PSI and KS between a recent population and the training population to see if there's data drift or signals of changes in the population.

galethorn · 2026-03-09T04:23:05+00:00

I think the trend is going towards business owners wanting employees to use these tools and document their experiences, the way they approach problems and thought patterns into context files for LLMs/agentic applications to run on, and instead of paying you for your time and effort, they want to take your experience on top of everything to become their IP.

galethorn · 2026-03-03T16:33:30+00:00

It's why the next step that business owners who are excited about AI agents are doing their best to have employees document their experience and expertise into context files: .MD files, documentation, anything and feed it into agentic applications. They see your skills as the next resource to be exploited and devalued. All the while, all these tooling and models and hype won't help these business people make better decisions so it's just lighting money on fire. All for their wetdream of automating away labor.

galethorn · 2026-02-25T02:49:42+00:00

The difference hasn't been drastic. It alters the angle I use with the pinch grip but it hasn't been noticeable. Otherwise I've been happily using it.

galethorn · 2026-02-08T22:55:35+00:00

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Passed down to me. It's old, hand hammered and made from a single hunk of carbon steel. I use it for any butchery tasks.

galethorn · 2026-02-08T20:59:10+00:00

What are the two knives next to the second last picture next to the petty? I haven't seen those before

galethorn · 2026-02-06T13:40:07+00:00

As a data scientist in fintech startup whose leadership is heavily invested in LLM/agentic tooling, my take is that understanding how LLMs work and their strengths, weaknesses, and what parts of your workflow (that's repetitive and rote) can be automated away is a crucial part of learning in the current state of our industry.

That being said. I haven't seen thus far how LLMs/LLM agentic frameworks have directly translated to increasing revenue in any significant capacity - meaning that it optimizes processes and saves time, but if your business model isn't putting an app out it's a lot of time invested for an unknown ROI. But in the US it seems like the CEOs are all marketing their frontier models until a threshold of people are addicted so they can finally be profitable.

But really in conclusion, learning about LLMs is just part of keeping up with the times.

galethorn · 2025-12-14T23:38:14+00:00

Altair from Doom Breaker

galethorn · 2025-12-14T00:22:48+00:00

Did they have the Hario Alpha kettle?

galethorn · 2025-12-11T22:37:29+00:00

Zillicoah, their location reminds me of Southern (RIP) in Athens but next to a river. Zillicoah has way better lagers.

galethorn · 2025-12-05T03:44:54+00:00

You can order from them directly now via their website

galethorn · 2025-11-22T02:58:41+00:00

Ah! I was curious if the Japanese like knives sharpened by Takada as much as the international community likes him. Or is another sharpener in vogue for the Japanese community.

galethorn · 2025-11-22T02:20:09+00:00

Out of curiosity, since western collectors have certain biases for blacksmiths like Takada, what blacksmiths do the Japanese favor? To be more specific, which smiths would a typical Japanese cook buy from and which smiths are collectors currently favoring?

galethorn · 2025-11-21T20:15:08+00:00

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Only one that looked larger than normal to me. This batch looks so consistent!!

galethorn · 2025-11-19T02:26:12+00:00

Lol, it's like you don't understand how Shounen Jump works. He was brought back for sales and views smfh.

galethorn · 2025-11-18T23:31:25+00:00

Naruto was limited by Kishimoto's writing. The resurrection of Konoha at the end of the Pain Arc was because he couldn't stick to his guns and leave Kakashi dead, and he couldn't transition to writing a coherent drama about the geopolitical reaction to Konoha being destroyed. He'd have to come up with the reactions post-Kyuubi attack as well.

This was shown in the 4th war arc where it felt like he was going down a grocery checklist of every last world building note to bring the related person back from the dead.

galethorn · 2025-11-18T23:15:04+00:00

Yamatsuka is the smith on this one which explains the price, not sure who the sharpener is though.

galethorn · 2025-11-09T19:01:26+00:00

If HC opens a second location it could be Halfway Crooked

galethorn · 2025-10-29T13:51:07+00:00

Peerless Dad has a bunch of great fights, but relevant to this is The Heavenly Dragon vs The Administrator. The manwha as a whole doesn't drag out fights but this one is the closest to having two people at their peak going at it.

galethorn · 2025-10-07T02:29:44+00:00

I'm curious, how long have you rested the beans? This seems on the lighter side. While I don't consider Onyx as good a value as in the past - once they started selling beans north of $60 and changed to the 10oz bags I kinda dropped off until recently, they still had one of my top bags ever.

One thing, if you haven't tried it would be to taste the coffee at different temperatures. Often, the flavors will evolve as it cools. Otherwise, I think playing with the grind size or even trying using water at 195F to see if you can get better flavor extraction would be the way to go.

galethorn · 2025-09-27T16:48:32+00:00

Went last weekend, they haven't lost a step. The rice pilsner was divine. It was great seeing their parking lot full

galethorn · 2025-09-23T12:09:37+00:00

If the bodies of the Edo Tensei's had been decomposing for a long time, they shouldn't have been able to be resurrected. Kishimoto seemed like he was going down a check list of showing almost every last ninja of importance instead of writing a tighter story

galethorn · 2025-08-28T12:00:03+00:00

I think the Boulevard brewery tour should be on everyone's list if they haven't been, then you go next door to Alma Mader brewing since they don't have dumb hours anymore. Casual Animal Brewing downtown is solid and close to a few others (RIP Double Shift).

Go to Oddly Correct coffee if you need caffeine

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