• AI.
  • OpenAI for chat: https://chat.openai.com. ChatGPT, GPT = Generative Pretrained Transformer. It’s a language model.
    • ChatGPT was released by OpenAI last wednesday. They also make DALL-E. Cofounded by Musk (!) in 2015.
  • Lensa is the app for the digital art avatars of your selfies.
  • Laion has a very popular (image-text) dataset: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-400-open-dataset/. Laion = Largescale Artificial Intelligence Open Network.
• Checked on GeminiEarn. Withdrawals are still paused. It’s hilarious how inconspicuous it is. They don’t show any issue – the withdrawal screen just says pending and a link to the FAQ. No direct info about an industry collapse, insolvency, corrupt partnerships, overcollateralization, bankruptcy, etc.
• Finally finished cleaning from friendsgiving. 2 days total.
• 15% of the 1inch token’s total supply is unlocking this december (~$111M) – https://www.theblock.co/post/192098/1inch-tokens-december-unlock
• Fixed the dishwasher, racks and rails needed adjustments.
• https://jeffburke.substack.com/p/the-spacex-effect-companies-founded
• Roasted and blended new batch of peanut butter, 5lbs. With red skins on for the first time! Not very different in taste (expected way more bitter), and a little extra nutrition.
• GitLab Q3 earnings call. Beat EPS, beat rev.
• Pyrrhic. Great word. It means you won, but the cost was larger than the benefits of the victory.
  • Named after Pyrrhus, King of Epirus (northwest region of ancient greece), who defeated the Romans but lost the majority of his troops.

• More AWS:reInvent keynotes on-demand.
• Swami Sivasubramanian.
  • ML.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL2HtX-FmiQ
  • Analytics. Spark now integrates with both athena and redshift.
  • Guest: Expedia. Moved to EKS, uses AI/SageMaker to suggest hotels/flights/etc to user.
  • Deepdived sagemaker, to build/train/deploy ML models. Supports geospatial data now (super helpful for predictive traffic, predictive weather, many more).
  • Redshift is now multi-AZ, so you can automatically failover in seconds instead of minutes.
  • Mentioned security as well, GuardDuty (same as other talk). GuardDuty covers RDSs now too.
  • AWS Glue Data Quality. Measure, monitor, manage data quality in your datalake.
  • Went over DataZone like the other presentation, data governance.
  • Zero-ETL another big theme in this one. Redshift now has auto-copy from s3.
  • They’re offering AWS ML University to community colleges now!
  • DeepRacer is a very popular ML intro tool (racing simulation): https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/
  • Used the phrase “democratize data” 😑
• Ruba Borno.
  • AWS Partners, a ton of experiences shared by folks who use AWS.
  • Heineken, vodafone, ibm, confluent, nasdaq, more.
  • OCSF = Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. AWS is working with palo alto networks, okta, more.
  • AWS Marketplace. You can sell software solutions to other people, buy AWS solutions from others, whatever. They’re launching some new dashboards for marketplace.
  • AWS Data Exchange. Provide, use, explore third-party datasets. Integrates with datalake, s3, more.

• Updated iOS 16.1.2. Bunch of fedora updates on laptop as well.
• Friendsgiving last night was awesome.
• Created ticket for sbsc to score each user’s picks against the field and send them out before sunday matches start: https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt/supercontest/-/issues/168
• Gyft is a mobile wallet for gift cards. Played with it, but it doesn’t work. Tried to add a card (via code) and it failed to register.
• Established Titles is a scam.
• Mark-to-market = values stuff at the most recent market price.
• Neuralink is hopefully a few months away from human trials.
• Jimmy G carted off in Q1 of niners/dolphins today, looked like an ankle twist. Out rest of game. Still won.
• Westgate’s typo this week (2 asterisks for buccaneers as home team instead of 1) meant that the team name entered into my DBs was “buccaneers ” (with a space at the end). This was breaking stuff because it didn’t match any logos, etc – it was considered a new team. Fixed:

update lines set favored_team='BUCCANEERS',home_team='BUCCANEERS' where id=1450;
update picks set team='BUCCANEERS' where line_id=1450 and team='BUCCANEERS ';

• Caught up on AWS:reInvent by watching the keynotes on-demand.
• Peter DeSantis.
  • Performance.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R11YgBEZzqE
  • Nitro chips. v5 launched. Twice the performance. Graviton3E processor too. Combined, HPC7g.
  • SRD = scalable reliable datagram. A faster networking solution. All EBS use it now. Doesn’t just help storage – helps compute, ML models/trainer, more.
  • Guest speaker was from f1.
  • Firecracker: their (very efficient) virtualization solution for lambda to separate workloads.
• Adam Selipsky.
  • Overview of many launches.
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xus8C2s5K9A
    • Capital markets, startups, renewable energy, supply chains, healthcare, cancer, many more – all on AWS.
  • New – OpenSearch has a serverless mode.
  • SageMaker – build/train/deploy ML models.
  • Lots of capability for federated queries (across multiple services). And ETL support. ELT most common between transactional DBs and data warehouses, so AWS offers no-ETL solutions to integrate aurora (mysql/postgres) and redshift (warehouse). Data appears in both automatically!
  • DataZone. Data mgmt service to catalog and govern data. Define projects, access, glossaries, etc.
  • QuickSight is their business intelligence (BI) tool, like tableau.
  • GuardDuty. ML/AI to detect security problems across your usage of all other AWS services. Includes some capability to detect issues within running containers.
  • Guest speakers were a few AWS clients (siemens, etc).
  • Launch: AWS Clean Rooms. The ability to allow others to use/analyze/interact with your data but with the private constraints you place. So you can expose certain analytics to clients downstream without revealing raw data.
  • “Just Walk Out” technology. Skipping the checkout lines at grocery stores. Your phone automatically determines what you got, and charges you. Same tech is being applied to other lines in other places.

• SBF went on twitter spaces last night for another grill session.
  • Saw Armin Ronacher, Rudy Gobert, Andreessen, Coffeezilla, Dorsey, many others listening.
  • More deflection. Kinda sick of the people thanking him for his appearance, his time, etc – he’s allegedly a criminal who stole billions of dollars. Would we do the same for a murderer? Always good to be courteous but be direct and proportional, cmon people – he’s not a celebrity.
  • Also – let’s stop accepting that he had no idea about anything. He’s a very smart, accomplished CEO who was running an empire. There’s no way he was ignorant of the books or absent of the decisions. He was well aware of the overcollateralization, the comingling of funds, and the misleading of users. He just ate the risk and got bit by the market. Own it.
• Tesla’s electric semis in use by pepsi. Also Biden’s IRA now only allows north-america-final-assembly EVs to get the credit, and Macron is not happy.
• Put some RODI water in bed.
• Mealprepped: Powders. Peanut butter. Liver. Protein bars.
• My percula AND ocellaris started bonding with new rose BTA (took <24hrs once the anemone was introduced).
• A postworkout snack I like a lot: rice, oatmilk, protein powder (vanilla, coconut, or banana). Produces a hearty meal that tastes like sweet sticky rice. Full of protein and carbs for recovery.
• Checked the temp of the water in the shrimp hatchery. 100F. 20 degrees too hot. Moved it to the very corner, as far as possible away from the light in the hood.
• Redeemed all cc rewards (only $100 since last time, about a month ago).
• Paradox of tolerance: If a society is 100% tolerant, it will ultimately be overthrown by the intolerant (bc the society tolerated the intolerant).
• Replaced the 4x C batteries in my motion-sensor closet light. Was getting dim. Come back here as a time reference to see how long it lasted.
• Lots of private work.
• Prepared for friendsgiving tomorrow, ~30 at my place. Injected duck fat, buttered, garlic-ed, and dry rubbed the turkey after 24hr dry pellicle brine in the fridge. Back in for 12 more hours.

• Lots of private work.
• Started the fermentation of the next batch of pickles.
  • Just a salt brine, no vinegar. You don’t get any probiotics with vinegar for the easy-pickling method! Proper fermentation is required for the gut benefits.
  • You need tannins to retain the crunch and prevent from going soft. Bay leaves are common. I used hibiscus flowers.
  • Cut off the ends of the cucumbers, they have enzymes that make the pickles soft.
  • 3-4% saltwater brine (7-10g salt per 1c water). Sea salt in water.
  • Use RODI water if you have excess minerals or chlorine in your tap. Can stop the fermentation process.
  • Mix with garlic, chilis, pepper, mustard seed, dill, whatever you want.
  • Use a fermentation weight at the top, or a ziploc with water. Cannot have pickles exposed to air.
  • Do not tighten lid, keep loose.
  • Cool, dark place for 3-5 days. Then refrigerate to stop fermentation and preserve.
  • Used some ghost pepper for this batch. 4 full english cucumbers, speared.
  • For my jar, use half a cup of whole salt (yielding less when ground) and ~12c water.
• Magnus won the Dodgy finals handily.
• Segmented, tenderized, and brined turkey. Sitting in fridge for ~40hrs uncovered to develop the pellicle.
• Started the brine shrimp hatchery.
  • It’s in the hood of my aquarium so everything is contained in the same place.
  • You need the same water params as the tank. Maybe slightly lower salinity. But I just use my tank water.
  • The light in the hood gives off enough heat to keep the hatchery within the desired temp range.
  • My hatchery is about 1.5cups. A gram of shrimp eggs is ~1/2tsp. So fill with water and add a rounded 1/8tsp of eggs.
  • Keep most the eggs in the freezer. Store only about a month’s worth in the fridge.
  • Allow to hatch for about 2 days.
  • Then to harvest: turn off aerator, wait a couple minutes for the hatched shrimp to fall to the bottom and the shells to float to the surface, then detach the hatchery from the air pump and collect from the bottom.
• Received liveaquaria: rose bubbletip anemone, bluetip sebae anemone, saron shrimp, tiger cowrie, sally lightfoot crab.

• You can factory reset an ipad (without the passcode) by turning it on while connected to a computer (+itunes).
• Confirmed my DigitalOcean bill is now jus the wp droplet blog, not sbsc.
• Remember that apple takes 30% of the purchase price of apps in the app store. And 30% of in-app purchases. Crazy. But I looked up google play today to compare, and it’s the same (well, it starts at 15% for the first 1M/yr in revenue to encourage startup, then becomes 30).
• Checked the november ADP employment report: https://adpemploymentreport.com/. Subscribed to the monthly via email.
• Wired from schwab to boa ($15 fee, and you have to submit before 4pm ET to have it transfer the same day). Arrived in <5min.
• SBSC updated banner, committed lines, submitted picks.
  • Again, their maintenance is so bad: https://www.superbook.com/supercontest/weekly-card-13/.
  • It’s buccaneers** (with two asterisks for home team instead of one).
  • There’s been an inconsistency in half the weeks this season.
• Mahlstedt LLC.
  • Got $300 credit for the boa business account (not sure if this was for cc spend or zenbusiness affiliate, I think the former – so $200 more should come later).
  • Remember too there’s the $16/mo fee for the business checking account if the balance is below 5k.
  • Analyzed all books for Mahlstedt LLC, assets and liabilities. Looks good, all balanced. Paid everything. Should be 0 boa business bills (unless you use the corporate card).
  • For BoA business accounts: the individual card account balances don’t matter on the main view, they’re just there to show the distribution across multiple cards. For payments and balancing, just look at the rollup corporate account (ignore individual card accounts).
• Liquidated my Kalshi position. >1k contracts for NO moon landing before Jan 1 2025. Around 86cents avg price.
• Jan Gustafsson is definitely one of my favorite chess commentators lol. So dry and sarcastic.
• Magnus and Dubov advance to the MrDodgy finals, tomorrow should be a good match. Aronian beat Andreikin to advance in scc (this match was excellent).
• Liveaquaria delay. They don’t update the “in stock” params quickly enough during large sales like black friday so you can fill a cart and submit an order on items that are actually out of stock. Saddest about the 2 new anemones (rose and sebae), hopefully they’ll still get here before friendsgiving on saturday.
• Kinda against commods in general (there are exceptions). Equity investments are an attempt to aim the future (where you add value accordingly), but commods are for the present – if that makes sense.
• JPowell spoke at Brookings about the economic outlook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUIt6FtIB4.
  • Basically – inflation is still too high, so we’ll keep hiking interest rates, but not as much as the past few.
  • Inflation in 3 buckets: core services, housing, and non-housing.
• Lots of private work.
• Craniometrix another healthtech startup trying to help alzheimer’s: https://www.craniometrix.com/
• SBF gave an interview: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/30/business/sam-bankman-fried-interview.
  • Another pile of deflection. “I was not aware..” “I did not knowingly…” disappointing.
  • Andrew Sorkin is a pretty direct interviewer, but I would take it even further. Ask straight, simple questions. Require yes or no answers. Did you comingle funds? Did you talk with alameda about lending? Had you looked through the books yourself? Is this tweet a lie? Etc etc. If they don’t respond with yes or no, ask the exact same question again.
  • When asked if he did certain things or knew certain things, he would counter with the question “at what date” lol.
  • The “I’m a good guy” look is so disingenuous now too. “All my lawyers are telling me to stay quiet but look at me, I am honest and open and want to keep you all in the loop.” You’ve been caught in that exact same lie publicly multiple times.
• Tried a little greek yogurt mixed with scrambled eggs before cooking. Final product was a little creamier and richer.

• Research on broker-dealer registration.
• Will take my SIE and Series 7 exams soon.
• Lots of private work.
• Gemini earn withdrawals still haven’t come through (estimated completion was yesterday).
• Hadn’t heard back from Motogrrl about the Dec+Jan storage extension (called last week then submitted the “contact us” site form), so emailed today. They confirmed. They have everything on file, so will basically autocharge me the 1st of every month that the ducati remains parked there.

• Ok, looks like you can indent in the latest wp release – the bug that I previously spoke of. It just doesn’t show up in edit mode. It shows up on the actual post.
• Bankruptcy code.
  • Individuals: chapter 7 and chapter 13.
  • Businesses: chapter 7 (liquidation) or chapter 11 (reorganization).
  • Other chapters are for municipalities, farmers, fishermen, specific situations.
  • BlockFi filed chapter 11. Their email didn’t use the word “bankruptcy” once, it just had links to other blogs and FAQs. The casual reader probably didn’t even catch it.
• Sam Harris on leaving twitter:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9SFZNzF2Lo
  • Started to see people as irredeemable. Receiving hate. Blocking. Ending discourse. In general, quickening the trigger to judge and preconceive. Making a worse human.
  • [on elon] “The lesson was that how one of the most productive people of my generation was needlessly disrupting his own life, and damaging his reputation, by his addiction to twitter.” Not that decisionmaking was imperfect or anything else; just that a person was being reduced by twitter. Didn’t want to apply that to himself any longer.
• Liquidated some more positions.
• Rangers/devils at the garden.