As a longtime donor, got to visit the Internet Archive! They protect 50+ petabytes of web history over the past 28 years — nearly 835 billion web pages and 44 million books. Each drive rack holds 2.88 petabytes of data, so these 3 racks are ~2% of the archive counting backups. | Continue reading
I recently ordered a Comma.ai kit to add semi-autonomous driving capabilities to my 2018 Mazda CX-5. It took some trial and error (and help from the Comma.ai community on Discord) to get it working properly, but I highly recommend it as I’ll explain later. I’m sharing the steps I … | Continue reading
I wrote this post a week ago and have been thinking hard about whether I believe the premise, which is that within a few years, the norm for source code will be that it is written and modified by LLMs via prompting. For all practical purposes, all source code will be written this … | Continue reading
Inspired this weekend by Kygo’s latest album release, filmed on a mile-high rock outcropping in Norway, featuring a full-size Steinway piano, orchestra, and pyrotechnics. My favorite moments / timestamps: 4:30, 16:40, 18:30, 35:50, 56:40 | Continue reading
Perhaps the most important insight NASA has gleaned from studying team dynamics—in space and on Earth—is the preciousness of one trait in particular: a sense of humour. Studies of crews overwintering at the South Pole show that a confined group needs people to fulfil various role … | Continue reading
As a birthday present, I purchased and migrated to a new personal domain name. To mark the occasion, I put together a gallery from archive.org of my personal site throughout the years, from zacharyhamed.com to zhamed.com to zmh.org. July 2001 June 2004 September 2004 February 201 … | Continue reading
📍 Big Sky, Montana Jan 7, 2024 Zachary Hamed @zmh | Continue reading
History is not true. You can change history. The actual factual events are such a small part of the story. Everything else is interpretation. It’s never too late to change a story. The past is not true by Derek Sivers | Continue reading
From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to ti … | Continue reading
Mike Krieger: I’ll share a funny anecdote about the Explore experiment. Facebook has all these internal A/B testing tooling and we hooked into it and we ran our first machine learning on the Explore experiment and we filed a bug report and I’m like, “Hey, your tool isn’t working, … | Continue reading
📷 Bad news: I accidentally left my bag on a train at Grand Central Station today. Good news: While waiting at the Lost & Found, I got to enjoy these art deco-style MTA posters from George Pataki’s time as governor. (And shortly thereafter, got my bag back.) | Continue reading
Hit a 400 day streak learning French on Duolingo today! Started as a New Years Resolution in 2022 and became a nice daily (ish — you get to take some days off and maintain the streak) ritual that feels productive. I wish the exercises were a little more conversational, but still … | Continue reading
Last month, after almost exactly ten years, my side projects Daily 140 and Macaw stopped sending out emails thanks to Twitter's API changes. Some stats: 14,547 users 21,201 Twitter accounts that Daily 140 users chose to monitor 7,333,659 total Twitter accounts monitored for likes … | Continue reading
Gorgeous reimagining of the tape recorder from Teenage Engineering, complete with a spinning tape reel, “off the record” mode, and voice memos. I love single purpose devices — have been thinking of getting an old iPod, and this isn’t helping. teenage.engineering/products/… | Continue reading
📷 Just discovered Poolsuite.fm’s Are.na board — such great vintage and design inspiration: www.are.na/share/aRC… Some favorites: | Continue reading
Delhi architecture Walking around Agra The Taj Mahal | Continue reading
The National Orchid Garden Raffles Hotel Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay, and the National Museum of Singapore | Continue reading
As part of my annual website cleanup, I’m moving off Medium to Micro.blog. A few of the steps I’m taking: Export Medium archive in Settings Remove subdomain (blog.zhamed.com) from Medium Enable subdomain on Micro.blog Enable Medium subdomain URLs (i.e. zmh.medium.com instead of m … | Continue reading
A running list of things that are easy to forget, relatively quick to do, and make your life easier on a daily basis. Review and reorder apps on homescreen Add keyboard shortcuts for common actions Add TextExpander / Alfred snippets for frequently used phrases Your addresses / em … | Continue reading
Recently purchased the Sofirn BLF SP36 Research Mainly the Reddit flashlight forum, this thread in particular Budget Light Forum | Continue reading
I’ve been using a Moccamaster for the past two years and love the way it makes coffee. Choosing a model was relatively hard though, since they have multiple options and models. A few friends have asked how I picked a model, so I wanted to share the 3 main decisions you’ll need to … | Continue reading
Recently upgraded my Dyson v7 to a Dyson v11 after the battery ran out. The v11 has a larger bin, stronger suction, and swappable batteries.1 Research v11 absolute vs torque - only difference is soft roller attachment, which you can buy on eBay separately v11 torque vs animal - a … | Continue reading
The art and science of creating chance This post was originally published on Medium in 2015. In 2014 I was lucky enough to speak at Morning Prayers, a secular Harvard tradition that has existed since its founding in 1636. Below is a copy of my remarks. Harvard University · Senior … | Continue reading
Last spring, I took a class on social psychology. It was one of the most useful classes I’ve ever taken, so I figured I’d share some of the more interesting findings. Each paragraph has a citation to its right so you can get more information or read the original study. 1. Recipro … | Continue reading