I am unfortunately not writing a real post today, rather a post about what I wish I were writing about. Every time I sit down to write anything these days I get bad writer’s block and so I end up not writing or banging out something really mediocre. But I want to write down some of the topics I’d like to write and hope to write about soon as a way to remember them and push me to write about them.

So I’d like to write some posts about the following:

My work using HuggingFace and some other tools to try to fine-tune a large-language model (LLM). I hope one day to get an LLM that can read earnings statements for me and parse out anything interesting. I would go through step by step what I did, and maybe also have a separate post for all the things that really annoyed me (no one would tell me how to make a dataset!)

“Shadow Boxing NIMBYs again” where I talk about why NIMBYism and zoning are bad. This post would in part take in the idea of “people should be allowed to build things on their property,” which is surprisingly controversial. Also tearing about common NIMBY arguments about how corporations and foreigners owning homes are the “real” problem rather than the simple fact that there aren’t enough homes. Also would talk about the insanity of the British “chains” system.

My recent successes and failures in cryo-EM, including the glow discharger destroying my grids and how my ice has been misbehaving. Also the fact that 2 similar samples are acting in completely opposite ways.