Blogs and videos
I’m feeling both very hyped for Kivala and very down regarding my lack of time for ML these last weeks…
This entry is gonna be short, I’m trying to get the ball back rolling for writing daily, these moments kinda suck because I want to reflect, I want to build a habit of working on this side quest and document it, but being CTO/lead at a startup with an innovative product but still in a quite saturated market (intercom/digicodes) requires 110% of my time and attention and I’ve been trying to be hitting the gym 5/7 and sleep min 9h/nights so that’s tough.
I spend a lot of time in trains, moving throughout france seeing family, friends, going to the Kivala HQ etc., internet quality sucks in the train so I use this time to read mostly
Kivala
Wrote some scripts, got a new hardware prototype, ran the app on it, fixed some hardware issues, updated our current hardware with a release allowing Light themeing for the bright days + QoL fixes.
ML
Read some blogs articles and essays, 2 from John Schulman (KL Divergence estimator and Research career advice), 1 from thinking machines on their Tinker framework, downladed and skimmed some papers (tiny MoEs, diffusion papers, world models and RL). Started reading a book about information theory, I’ll write more about it once I understand enough to.
Overall I’m still proud of myself and I feel like I’ve got my priorities straight, my current startup is my income AND capital upside could be huge, and my health is primordial, I still feel in peak form, shape and energy.