Oh hey, it's me, the guy who owns this site. But who even is Matt Sayar? I'm still trying to figure that out. Here's some more places I'm at around the web.
Unfortunately, my car was recently totaled after a rear-end collision. Thankfully, everybody is okay. Armed with a $21,000 check from the insurance company, I needed a new car ASAP. Somewhat relatedly, a couple of months ago I won a prize from a local radio station.
Continue reading...Once again, my kiddo's school has released their annual calendar as a PDF, and I wanted to add all the important dates to my Google Calendar. My family's life revolves around this centralized source of truth, and last year I had to dig around in…
Continue reading...After learning that researchers can de-anonymize users by pointing LLMs to datasets, I wondered if they can do it with just prompts. I happen to have an account I post with that I don't generally want associated with my real name, so I figured it…
Continue reading...For a few weeks there, my website was missing articles. It's not a huge deal, but it broke in a very silent, sneaky way. Fixing it by hand would have taken several hours of concentrated effort, but I pulled up Claude Cowork and fixed it…
Continue reading...I started reading Seveneves years ago. Halfway through, I put it down and read something else. A couple years later, I picked it up again. Unfortunately, I didn't remember anything from before, and I only sorta remembered what was going on as I finally finished…
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