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Trying to instrument an agentic app with Arize Phoenix and litellm

llms
agents
evals-course
evaluation
miniproject
hinbox
2025-06-04

Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse

llms
agents
evals-course
evaluation
miniproject
hinbox
2025-06-04

Building hinbox: An agentic research tool for historical document analysis

llms
agents
evals-course
evaluation
miniproject
hinbox
research
2025-05-30

Error analysis to find failure modes

evals-course
llms
llmops
evaluation
2025-05-23

How to think about evals

evals-course
llms
llmops
evaluation
2025-05-20

First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro)

agents
google
tools
openai
research
2025-04-09

Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs

claude
llm
llms
miniproject
openai
prompt-engineering
softwareengineering
tools
2025-03-16

Building an MCP Server for Beeminder: Connecting AI Assistants to Personal Data

tools
anthropic
claude
miniproject
2025-02-21

Tinbox: an LLM-based document translation tool

translation
llm
llms
languages
research
miniproject
python
tools
2025-02-16

Starting the Hugging Face Agents course

agents
huggingface
skillbuilding
llmops
llms
2025-02-11

AI Engineering Architecture and User Feedback

books-i-read
llm
llms
llmops
evaluation
2025-02-09

Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ chapter 9: Inference Optimisation

books-i-read
inference
llm
llms
hardware
2025-02-07

Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation

books-i-read
datasets
datalabelling
llm
llms
finetuning
2025-02-05

Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ (Chip Huyen) chapter 7: Finetuning

books-i-read
finetuning
llm
llms
2025-01-26

Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ (Chip Huyen) chapter 6

books-i-read
llm
llms
agents
rag
evaluation
2025-01-24

Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ (Chip Huyen) chapter 4

books-i-read
llm
llms
evaluation
2025-01-22

Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ (Chip Huyen) chapter 3

books-i-read
llm
llms
evaluation
2025-01-21

Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ (Chip Huyen) chapter 1

books-i-read
llm
llms
finetuning
prompt-engineering
2025-01-19

Final notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’

llm
prompt-engineering
books-i-read
evaluation
2025-01-17

Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6

llm
prompt-engineering
books-i-read
2025-01-13

Prompt Content: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 5

llm
prompt-engineering
books-i-read
RAG
2025-01-12

Starting to read Prompt Engineering for LLMs

llm
prompt-engineering
books-i-read
tokenisation
2025-01-09

First stitches: on learning to knit

crafting
learning
crafts
skills
lessonslearnt
knitting
2025-01-05

All the things I learned while trending on Hacker News

llms
miniproject
finetuning
isafpr
evaluation
nlp
2024-07-07

My finetuned models beat OpenAI’s GPT-4

nlp
afghanistan
llms
miniproject
finetuning
isafpr
evaluation
2024-07-01

How to think about creating a dataset for LLM finetuning evaluation

llms
finetuning
isafpr
afghanistan
datasets
evaluation
miniproject
2024-06-25

One-click LLM finetuning with Predibase, OpenPipe and OpenAI

nlp
llms
miniproject
finetuning
isafpr
2024-06-17

Finetuning my first LLM(s) for structured data extraction with axolotl

nlp
afghanistan
llms
miniproject
finetuning
isafpr
2024-06-15

Evaluating the Baseline Performance of GPT-4-Turbo for Structured Data Extraction

nlp
afghanistan
datalabelling
llms
isafpr
miniproject
evaluation
2024-06-03

Structured Data Extraction for ISAF Press Releases with Instructor

nlp
afghanistan
datalabelling
isafpr
llms
miniproject
2024-06-02

Introducing the Afghanwire Dataset: A Unique Collection of Translated Afghan Media Articles from 2006-2009

miniproject
afghanistan
datalabelling
datasets
nlp
llms
isafpr
2024-04-01

Writing a custom Terraform provider to deploy Huggingface Spaces

devops
miniproject
terraform
go
skillbuilding
2024-03-31

Publishing the ISAF Press Releases dataset

miniproject
afghanistan
datalabelling
datasets
nlp
llms
2024-03-24

Language Learning Crash Course: from slightly more than zero to slightly less than advanced

language
study
learning
education
languages
languagecoaching
2023-08-10

All the things I wish I knew about studying at school

productivity
memory
study
skills
mathematics
memorisation
education
2023-08-06

Automating database backups with Tarsnap

databases
skillbuilding
softwareengineering
tools
miniproject
2023-07-24

Building MathsPrompt: a tool to help me review and practice problems for my degree

openai
llms
mathematics
rust
mu123
q31
skillbuilding
softwareengineering
tools
miniproject
2023-07-23

Automating social media posting for my new blogposts

productivity
tech
useful-tools
automation
social-media
technology
2023-07-15

Terraform Input Variables

terraform
devops
softwareengineering
2023-06-22

Tokenizer Links

nlp
balochi-language-model
tokenisation
links
2023-06-04

Tokenizing Balochi with HuggingFace’s Tokenizer and FastAI/Spacy

nlp
balochi-language-model
tokenisation
balochi
2023-06-03

The What, Why, and How of Tokenisation in Machine Learning

nlp
balochi-language-model
tokenisation
2023-06-01

Building a Balochi Language Dataset for NLP Applications

balochi
nlp
balochi-language-model
ethics
datasets
2023-05-29

The Risks of Language Models in Minority Languages

balochi
nlp
balochi-language-model
deep-learning
ethics
2023-05-22

Low-resource language models: making a start with Balochi

balochi
nlp
balochi-language-model
deep-learning
2023-05-21

Finishing MU123

mathematics
mu123
q31
2023-05-14

Exponents and Logarithms: a MU123 review

mathematics
mu123
q31
2023-05-02

Terraform for the Uninitiated: Demystifying Your First Codebase

terraform
softwareengineering
devops
2023-04-29

How to remove a commit (or two) from your git branch

git
softwareengineering
versioncontrol
2023-04-28

The Trick Is The Thing, Part II

mathematics
mu123
q31
deeplearning
2023-03-25

Building Blocks For Better Stable Eights

computervision
fastai
parttwo
2023-03-18

Tricking my digits classifier with diffusion

computervision
fastai
parttwo
2023-03-05

Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum

art
reviews
netherlands
2023-02-19

On mathematical literacy

mathematics
mu123
q31
2023-01-01

2022 Readings

books
reading
2022-12-27

From the foundation up: Fashion-MNIST basics from Lesson 10

computervision
fastai
parttwo
2022-10-24

Deep learning tricks all the way down, with a bit of mathematics for good measure

computervision
fastai
parttwo
2022-10-17

Avoiding BIDMAS, or how J does notation

j
mathematics
mu123
q31
notation
2022-10-16

Storing Bytes: what data serialisation is and why you need it for machine learning

redactionmodel
computervision
mlops
python
tools
zenml
2022-09-07

It takes a tribe: how I’m thinking about putting my object detection model into production

tools
redactionmodel
computervision
mlops
2022-05-31

More Data, More Problems: Using DVC to handle data versioning for a computer vision problem

tools
redactionmodel
computervision
mlops
2022-05-24

Redaction Image Classifier: NLP Edition

fastai
nlp
partone
2022-05-21

A neural network for Fashion MNIST data

fastai
computervision
partone
2022-05-15

Using the seven-step SGD process for Fashion MNIST

fastai
computervision
partone
2022-05-14

Stochastic Gradient Descent: a mini-example of the whole game

fastai
computervision
partone
2022-05-13

Some foundations for machine learning with PyTorch

fastai
computervision
partone
2022-05-12

A dress is not a pullover: learning about PyTorch Tensors and pixel similarity using the Fashion MNIST dataset

fastai
computervision
partone
2022-05-11

A painless way to create an MVP demo using computer vision models

fastai
computervision
redactionmodel
tools
2022-05-07

How my pet cat taught me a lesson about validation data for image classification

fastai
computervision
partone
2022-05-02

How to trust the data you feed your model: alternative data validation solutions in a computer vision context (part 3)

tools
redactionmodel
computervision
datavalidation
2022-04-28

How to trust the data you feed your model: data validation with Great Expectations in a computer vision context (part 2)

tools
redactionmodel
computervision
datavalidation
2022-04-26

How to trust the data you feed your model: data validation with Great Expectations in a computer vision context (part 1)

tools
redactionmodel
computervision
datavalidation
2022-04-19

‘I guess this is what data-centric AI is!’: Performance boosts after training with synthetic data

tools
redactionmodel
computervision
2022-04-06

Some characteristics of best-in-class ML portfolio projects

computervision
skillbuilding
2022-04-04

Building my own image to use IceVision with Paperspace

tools
docker
computervision
2022-03-25

Starting Docker In A Month Of Lunches

tools
dockerinamonthoflunches
books-i-read
2022-03-21

Figuring out why my object detection model is underperforming with FiftyOne, a great tool you probably haven’t heard of

redactionmodel
computervision
tools
debugging
jupyter
2022-03-12

Incremental Improvements to my Redaction Detection Model

redactionmodel
computervision
tools
2022-03-03

Three Python Helpers for Parsing Inputs

python
tools
2022-02-27

It’s raining bboxes: how I wrote a Python script to create 2097 synthetic images to help improve my machine learning model

redactionmodel
computervision
python
tools
2022-02-10

What are invariants and how can they help make your Python classes more robust?

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2022-02-08

Upgrade your Python dicts with data classes

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2022-02-05

How and where to use enums in Python

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2022-01-30

Using mypy for Python type checking

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2022-01-22

Using type annotation with collections in Python

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2022-01-18

A Midway Report on my Computer Vision Project

python
fastai
tools
redactionmodel
2022-01-16

Different ways to constrain types in Python

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2022-01-08

Learning about ‘nbdev’ while building a Python package for PDF machine learning datasets

python
jupyter
fastai
tools
2022-01-06

Getting practical with type annotations and mypy

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2022-01-03

Counter: a shortcut to counting iterables in Python

python
2022-01-01

What’s special about types in Python?

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2021-12-30

Exploring J, an array programming language

j
2021-12-29

What makes code robust?

robustpython
python
books-i-read
2021-12-29

A Taxonomy of Redaction

redactionmodel
2021-12-15

73% accuracy for redaction object detection

redactionmodel
computervision
progressreport
2021-12-11

What is VFNet?

redactionmodel
computervision
2021-11-30

How to annotate image data for object detection with Prodigy

redactionmodel
computervision
datalabelling
2021-11-29

Launching a podcast about MLOps

zenml
podcast
appearances
2021-11-27

Check your security vulnerabilities with safety

security
tools
calmcode
2021-11-27

How to set and get environment variables using Python

python
2021-11-26

entr: a tool to run commands when files change

debugging
testing
tools
calmcode
2021-11-25

On failure

debugging
emotions
2021-11-21

Some things I learned about debugging

debugging
2021-10-25

Reading Python Code

python
skillbuilding
2021-09-18

Writing Code

python
skillbuilding
2021-09-18

Tensors all the way down

2021-09-16

A Baseline Python Development Setup

python
tools
2021-09-14

Six problems TFX was trying to solve in 2017

tfx
tensorflow
google
mlops
papers-i-read
2021-09-11

Retrieval Practice with fastai chapters 1 and 2

2021-09-10

How to set a Jupyter notebook to auto-reload external libraries

jupyter
2021-09-09

A Baseline Understanding of MLOps

mlops
2021-09-08

Training a classifier to detect redacted documents with fastai

fastai
redactionmodel
computervision
datalabelling
2021-09-06

On the interpretability of models

science
tech
deep-learning
data
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-28

FastAI Lesson Zero: video notes

productivity
deep-learning
study
fastai
deeplearning
2021-05-27

Getting Out of the Intermediate Language Plateau: Arabic Edition / Principles

language
useful-tools
study
learning
skills
languages
arabicintermediateplateau
arabic
2021-05-26

Arthur Samuel and the ‘Frontier of Automation’

science
deep-learning
statistics
machinelearning
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-26

Telling Cats from Dogs

deep-learning
software
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-26

Deep Learning: Best in Show?

coding
tech
useful-tools
deep-learning
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-23

Held back by misunderstanding

tech
deep-learning
academia
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-23

PDP: a precursor to modern neural networks?

tech
deep-learning
history
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-23

Removing Barriers: Deep Learning Edition

tech
useful-tools
deep-learning
software
education
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-23

Rosenblatt’s Mark I Perceptron

tech
coding
useful-tools
deep-learning
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-23

Small, unexpectedly powerful boxes

tech
useful-tools
deep-learning
technology
deeplearning
2021-05-23

A basic overview of how to use Handlebars

coding
useful-tools
javascript
web
technology
launchschool
2020-12-10

How to use jQuery and Handlebars in your website

coding
useful-tools
web
launchschool
javascript
2020-12-10

Using APIs to make things happen on the web

coding
javascript
internet
web
technology
launchschool
2020-12-04

How events drive programming for the web

coding
javascript
internet
privacy
launchschool
2020-12-03

The Four Positions for Inserting Elements into the DOM

coding
launchschool
javascript
2020-12-02

Different ways of accessing the text contents of DOM nodes in JavaScript

coding
web
launchschool
javascript
2020-11-14

Using CSS selectors with JavaScript DOM methods

coding
javascript
web
technology
launchschool
2020-11-12

Turning array-like objects into arrays with JavaScript

coding
launchschool
javascript
2020-11-10

Understanding the use cases for Closures in JavaScript

coding
launchschool
javascript
2020-10-15

What is Lexical Scope?

coding
launchschool
javascript
2020-10-13

Working with JavaScript’s Object Prototype model

coding
launchschool
javascript
2020-10-12

Sholay

reviews
bollywood
film
2020-06-14

Dil Dhadakne Do

reviews
bollywood
film
2020-06-11

Kapoor & Sons

reviews
bollywood
film
2020-06-11

Two Ruby patterns around map and reduce

coding
ruby
launchschool
2020-02-12

How the Internet Works

tech
coding
technology
launchschool
internet
2020-01-29

New book, new ways to order

afghanistan
first-draft-publishing
books
publishing
taliban
2019-09-10

Mastery-based Learning with Launch School

podcast
tech
coding
study
learning
education
technology
2019-03-21

Sources and Methods Does Technology

podcast
tech
coding
2019-03-12

Using Ruby’s .digits method

coding
ruby
launchschool
2019-02-25

Solid Study Habits for Coders

productivity
coding
study
ruby
anki
launchschool
2019-02-16

Using Ruby’s .zip method to combine arrays

coding
ruby
launchschool
2019-02-13

Pain: A Love Story

general
movement
body
pain
health
2019-01-31

RaspberryLPIC: A New Series & Setup Steps

raspberrylpic
tech
coding
raspberrypi
lpic
linux
technology
2018-12-31

Earning a certificate in Linux Essentials from LPI

tech
linux
technology
2018-12-02

In Afghanistan, watching someone learn to code for the first time

afghanistan
tech
coding
learning
2018-11-13

Learn Persian / Farsi / Dari with Podcasts

language
farsi
podcasts
languages
persian
dari
2018-11-07

Learn Pashto with Podcasts

afghanistan
language
pashto
podcasts
languages
2018-11-05

Using Regex with Python to Find Strings

productivity
coding
useful-tools
python
regex
2018-07-08

Python Virtual Environments, Testing Environments and Markdown Strikethrough

coding
python
2018-06-24

Real-World Go with Referenced Functions

coding
golang
2018-06-23

Splitting PDFs with Python

2018-06-23

Diagnosing Diabetes with Weka & Machine Learning

tech
coding
science
weka
data
machinelearning
2018-06-18

Table Tests in Go

coding
testing
golang
2018-06-18

Figuring out the Go testing ecosystem

coding
testing
golang
2018-06-17

From AI to to Brahms

art
tech
coding
music
machinelearning
technology
2018-06-13

My new book: The Taliban Reader

afghanistan
first-draft-publishing
books
productivity
taliban
talibansourcesproject
writing
2018-06-05

Machine Learning with Weka

coding
useful-tools
weka
golang
machinelearning
statistics
2018-06-04

My First Arabic Book Translation

books
arabic
guantánamo
translation
samielhajbook
2018-05-06

Fuzzy Searching and Foreign Name Recognition

afghanistan
coding
python
research
2018-01-31

Tweeting to the Void

productivity
tech
useful-tools
social-media
tools
technology
2018-01-25

Installing PostgreSQL on a Mac

coding
useful-tools
python
sql
database
2018-01-24

Making and shuffling lists in Python

coding
python
lists
numpy
2018-01-23

Tabula for extracting table data from PDFs

coding
useful-tools
tech
afghanistan
productivity
data
software
technology
2018-01-17

Language Learner’s Journal: Homestay Edition

arabic
language
jordan
languagelearner'sjournal
amman
taylorjournal
languagecoaching
2017-10-20

Language Learner’s Journal: Phone Calls and Timed Breaks

arabic
language
languagelearner'sjournal
jordan
amman
taylorjournal
languages
languagecoaching
2017-08-13

Spaced Repetition Without Computers

useful-tools
memorisation
srsfoundation
spaced-repetition
anki
2017-06-27

The book you need to read on bin Laden’s life post-2001

books
journalism
pakistan
9/11
history
review
2017-06-26

Italian Comprehension: Putting Myself On the Hook

language
memory
study
learning
vocabulary
italianchallenge
languages
2017-06-22

Robert Caro’s Big Long Book

books
urban-planning
review
2017-06-19

How We Forget

books
review
2017-06-04

Language Learner’s Journal: Meaningful Leisure

jordan
incremental-elephant
arabic
languagelearner'sjournal
language
amman
taylorjournal
languages
languagecoaching
2017-05-24

Language Learner’s Journal: Increasing Spoken Fluency

arabic
language
languagelearner'sjournal
languages
speaking
languagecoaching
reading
2017-04-30

Guest Post: Can robots be language coaches?

language
incremental-elephant
coaching
languages
coachbot
languagecoaching
2017-04-29

On Reading in Arabic: The Evidence

arabic
language
study
learning
languages
reading
2017-04-17

You need to be reading more to get ahead in Arabic

arabic
language
study
learning
languages
languagecoaching
reading
2017-04-15

Language Learner’s Journal: Independent Study

arabic
language
jordan
languagelearner'sjournal
coaching
taylorjournal
languages
languagecoaching
2017-04-09

Language Learner’s Journal: Leaving Qasid

arabic
language
jordan
languagelearner'sjournal
learning
amman
taylorjournal
languages
languagecoaching
2017-03-20

Why do Arabic fonts appear so small? (and how to fix it)

arabic
language
coding
languages
design
2017-03-12

Audio Courses with Language Transfer

language
languages
web
tools
2017-03-10

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Guinea Pigs

general
bibliography
pets
reading
animals
2017-03-06

Walk Around the Block

productivity
movement
walking
work
2017-03-03

Three Podcast Recommendations

podcast
podcasts
2017-02-26

Core Language Learning Beliefs

arabic
language
lessonslearnt
languages
learning
languagecoaching
2017-02-23

Language Learner’s Journal: Keeping Pace

arabic
language
incremental-elephant
languagelearner'sjournal
learning
taylorjournal
languages
languagecoaching
2017-02-18

How to learn a language without a teacher

language
incremental-elephant
coaching
languages
learning
languagecoaching
2017-02-14

‘Master Arabic’ is Out Today!

books
arabic
language
incremental-elephant
publishing
plateau-ebook
languages
masterarabic
languagecoaching
2017-02-13

Language Learner’s Journal: Deepening My Studies

arabic
language
languagelearner'sjournal
jordan
amman
taylorjournal
languages
languagecoaching
2017-02-04

Actual Fluency

arabic
language
podcast
learning
languages
interview
languagecoaching
2017-02-03

Variations on a Pomodoro

phd
productivity
pomodoros
work
translation
2017-01-31

How to learn a page of verbs

arabic
language
memory
languages
learning
languagecoaching
2017-01-27

Language Learner’s Journal: Adjustments at the Deep End

arabic
language
incremental-elephant
coaching
taylorjournal
languages
languagecoaching
2017-01-23

Trello to Markdown: a Chrome extension

useful-tools
data
tools
database
internet
technology
trello
2017-01-17

Language Learner’s Journal: Introducing Taylor

arabic
language
coaching
incremental-elephant
taylorjournal
languagecoaching
2017-01-16

ClozeMaster: learn words in context

language
tech
memory
useful-tools
study
languages
learning
tools
2017-01-15

Master Arabic: Behind the Cover

art
arabic
masterarabic
2017-01-15

Developing for Android with Udacity

tech
coding
android
pythonsideproject
udacity
coachbot
2017-01-13

Master Arabic: What’s in the Premium Edition?

books
arabic
language
incremental-elephant
masterarabic
2017-01-12

10 podcasts to learn about data science and programming

podcast
coding
useful-tools
data
python
podcasts
2017-01-11

Resetting my base line: caffeine edition

productivity
focus
tea
2017-01-11

Classical Arabic and a Sources and Methods Recap

arabic
language
podcast
arabicpodcast
literarycaravans
2017-01-09

How to best work with a language coach

language
study
coaching
learning
languages
languagecoaching
2017-01-08

Introducing CoachBot: Your Personal Language Taskmaster

coding
useful-tools
tech
language
productivity
languages
pythonsideproject
coachbot
2017-01-06

Taskpaper –> Omnifocus

tech
useful-tools
taskpaper
mac
omnifocus
technology
2017-01-05

Randomise Your Learning

language
study
languages
learning
2017-01-05

Things We Control: On Internal vs External Goals

language
phd
productivity
goals
study
learning
languages
masterarabic
2017-01-04

Everything You Need to Study Jordanian Arabic

books
language
jordan
study
learning
arabicpodcast
amman
masterarabic
languages
arabic
2017-01-03

The ways memory skills augment your life

books
podcast
memory
history
memorisation
learning
2017-01-02

Pet Peeve: Tech Switching

tech
useful-tools
software
media
blogging
technology
2017-01-02

New Year, New Arabic-language Podcast

language
jordan
podcast
arabicpodcast
amman
languages
masterarabic
arabic
2017-01-01

Pre-Order Now: ‘Master Arabic’

books
language
incremental-elephant
study
writing
languages
masterarabic
arabic
2016-12-30

Dinner Party Decision Matrix: A Python Tool

coding
useful-tools
python
tools
food
2016-12-29

Knot 4: Empathy, Tech Scepticism and Climate Change

knot
environment
languages
technology
climate
empathy
reading
2016-12-28

Talking DevonThink with Gabe Weatherhead

podcast
tech
useful-tools
data
database
devonthink
technology
social-media
software
2016-12-26

Syria’s Revolution: The First Draft

books
journalism
review
syria
history
2016-12-25

Share the Gift of Language Coaching

business
language
incremental-elephant
2016-12-23

The Best Books I Read in 2016

books
review
2016-12-21

Reading and the American Revolution

books
usa
review
reading
2016-12-21

Two Charities Needing Your Support

general
funding
charity
2016-12-21

Django vs Flask

coding
useful-tools
plateau-ebook
thinking
2016-12-20

DevonThink Resurgent

tech
useful-tools
data
learning
database
devonthink
software
2016-12-19

Seeking Python Code Mentor

language
coding
study
languages
learning
2016-12-18

Knot 3: Encryption, Race and Tunnels

journalism
knot
tech
memory
books
race
media
2016-12-17

Into Eternity: the construction of Onkalo’s tunnels

environment
general
science
construction
finland
design
nuclearwaste
2016-12-16

Broken Pots

art
general
japan
culture
2016-12-15

Notification Zero

productivity
tech
useful-tools
iphone
tools
writing
technology
distraction
focus
2016-12-13

Daddybot

tech
useful-tools
travel
technology
2016-12-11

Highlights + DevonThink = Pretty Great

books
productivity
tech
useful-tools
data
review
database
research
technology
software
reading
2016-12-09

Knot 2: Translation as Trauma, Taxis and Artificial Intelligence

knot
jordan
general
amman
syria
languages
artificialintelligence
translation
war
conflict
2016-12-09

The Two Books Every Intermediate Arabic Student Needs to Read

books
language
incremental-elephant
study
learning
plateau-ebook
languages
arabic
2016-12-09

Nutritional Density

productivity
general
food
nutrition
consumption
social-media
information
2016-12-08

The Taliban on the Clintons (May 2000)

afghanistan
journalism
archives
taliban
talibansourcesproject
2016-12-07

Climbing Routes Without Numbers

movement
jordan
climbing
amman
mental
2016-12-02

Reading the Taliban: Himal Magazine article

afghanistan
first-draft-publishing
primarysources
taliban
writing
2016-12-02

Knot 1: Solitary Confinement & Digital Security

books
knot
tech
science
links
data
reading
2016-12-02

Positive feedback on my Memory Skills course

business
general
incremental-elephant
memory
learning
memorisation
islam
99-names-course
2016-12-02

Looking the Wrong Way: Faces in ‘Arrival’

art
culture
film
narrative
2016-11-29

The Inner Game: How a Perspective Shift Can Radically Improve Your Performance

books
productivity
climbing
movement
learning
skills
sport
psychology
mental
2016-11-23

Learning a Language? Try a New Approach

language
study
learning
skills
languages
dutch
arabic
dari
pashto
2016-11-22

Different Kinds of Climbing

movement
travel
climbing
fear
kuwait
skills
2016-11-20

Encrypt Your Dropbox Files

tech
useful-tools
software
security
technology
2016-11-17

Kukicha or Twig Tea

general
tea
2016-11-14

Music, Sound & Technology

tech
books
music
technology
podcasts
2016-11-12

Squarespace Goes SSL

tech
useful-tools
security
internet
web
technology
blogging
2016-11-11

Finishing GMB’s Elements

movement
body
sport
gmb
exercise
2016-11-05

Climbing Fuheis: Two and a Half Ascents

movement
jordan
climbing
2016-11-05

Python Side-Project: Approach

tech
coding
languages
technology
pythonsideproject
2016-11-05

Scratching Below the Surface with David Heinemeier Hansson

tech
productivity
coding
learning
creativity
skills
curiosity
work
2016-10-30

A Greener Technological Footprint

environment
tech
technology
web
ecology
2016-10-28

Kael Weston on Sources and Methods

afghanistan
language
podcast
iraq
politics
war
conflict
military
2016-10-27

On Completing Udacity’s Intro to Programming Nanodegree

coding
useful-tools
learning
skills
2016-10-24

Letting Go

climbing
fear
skills
2016-10-21

Different Uses for Spaced Repetition

language
coding
useful-tools
study
tools
learning
memorisation
work
technology
spaced-repetition
2016-10-18

Bots: Part of the Future of Language Learning?

language
useful-tools
languages
learning
technology
2016-10-17

Fundamentals Versus Hacks

books
productivity
learning
work
2016-10-16

Skills Development: Foundations

books
productivity
coding
learning
mindset
skills
2016-10-15

On the demise of afghanistannewscenter.com

afghanistan
journalism
research
archives
internet
2016-10-13

Keep Moving

climbing
movement
2016-10-13

Seeing The Forest But For The Trees: On Exist.io

productivity
tech
useful-tools
data
work
beeminder
2016-10-11

Coming Soon: The Taliban Reader

books
afghanistan
talibansourcesproject
taliban-poetry
taliban
2016-10-05

Learning Without Seams

general
climbing
study
learning
skills
writing
2016-09-29

Sustainable Climbing: Three Book Reviews

books
climbing
reviews
ecology
2016-09-28

Lessons Learnt: Language Study Habits That Work

language
study
lessonslearnt
languages
learning
2016-09-27

Turn Off Facebook’s News Feed

productivity
useful-tools
facebook
tools
technology
2016-09-24

PhD Tools: Tea

phd
productivity
phdtoolsseries
tea
2016-09-19

Coding Chronicles: Failure

tech
coding
udacity
technology
2016-09-17

PhD Tools: Sleep and Movement to Nourish the Body

phd
productivity
movement
2016-09-16

PhD Tools: Goodreads for Cross-Pollination

books
phd
productivity
useful-tools
research
goodreads
phdtoolsseries
reading
2016-09-15

PhD Tools: ‘Always return to your primary sources’

phd
productivity
writing
primarysources
research
phdtoolsseries
2016-09-14

PhD Tools: Freewriting and Journalling to Think Through your Work

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
tools
writing
research
phdtoolsseries
thinking
2016-09-13

PhD Tools: Pen and Paper

phd
productivity
useful-tools
tools
writing
research
phdtoolsseries
thinking
2016-09-13

PhD Tools: Vitamin-R and the Pomodoro Technique for Getting Going

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
tools
work
writing
technology
phdtoolsseries
2016-09-12

PhD Tools: The Secret to Finishing Your PhD

phd
productivity
phdtoolsseries
work
writing
2016-09-09

Starting the Spaced Repetition Foundation

journalism
useful-tools
general
tech
afghanistan
books
language
productivity
study
learning
anki
languages
srsfoundation
spaced-repetition
2016-09-08

PhD Tools: Omnifocus for Managing your Non-PhD Life

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
mac
omnifocus
phdtoolsseries
2016-09-07

PhD Tools: Backup Systems for Staving off Sadness

tech
useful-tools
phd
tools
technology
phdtoolsseries
storage
backup
2016-09-06

PhD Tools: Turn Off the Internet with Freedom

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
writing
internet
research
freedomapp
phdtoolsseries
2016-09-05

Svifnökkvinn minn er fullur af álum: Lessons in Icelandic

language
study
learning
languages
icelandic
pronunciation
2016-09-04

PhD Tools: RescueTime for Time Tracking

phd
productivity
useful-tools
rescuetime
writing
research
phdtoolsseries
2016-09-02

Existential Battles: Climbing in Amman

jordan
climbing
sport
movement
exercise
2016-09-02

PhD Tools: Mellel for Layout and Final Presentation

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
mellel
tools
writing
research
phdtoolsseries
2016-09-01

PhD Tools: Bookends for Managing References

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
writing
research
technology
phdtoolsseries
bookends
2016-08-31

PhD Tools: Scrivener for Writing Long Things

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
research
phdtoolsseries
writing
tools
2016-08-30

PhD Tools: Save your web links with Pinboard

productivity
useful-tools
internet
web
pinboard
phdtoolsseries
2016-08-29

PhD Tools: DevonThink for File Storage and Discovery

books
phd
productivity
useful-tools
data
database
writing
devonthink
research
phdtoolsseries
storage
reading
2016-08-26

PhD Tools: Think better with Tinderbox

phd
productivity
useful-tools
tools
writing
tinderbox
technology
phdtoolsseries
thinking
2016-08-25

PhD Tools: Visualise Structure and Kanban Flow with Trello

phd
productivity
useful-tools
structure
writing
trello
phdtoolsseries
2016-08-24

Walking with Words

productivity
tech
useful-tools
movement
podcasts
audible
health
2016-08-23

PhD Tools: Beeminder

phd
productivity
tech
useful-tools
tools
accountability
technology
beeminder
phdtoolsseries
2016-08-22

Learn all the districts of Afghanistan with Anki!

afghanistan
journalism
tech
useful-tools
learning
anki
memorisation
geography
2016-08-21

Walking Amman

jordan
tech
maps
data
travel
amman
technology
walking
2016-08-19

Jordan Diaries: Start with Geography

jordan
travel
learning
memorisation
amman
2016-08-18

Remove Your Colour

productivity
tech
hack
iphone
technology
2016-08-18

On Learning New Skills, #showyourwork and other housekeeping

books
jordan
podcast
coding
tsp
skills
writing
languages
2016-08-15

Chondrichthyan Fun: a review of Shark MOOC

general
science
ecology
environment
biology
sharks
nature
2016-07-24

How to become a memorisation and language ninja

language
general
memorisation
languages
islam
skills
2016-05-25

Reading the Afghan Taliban: 67 Sources You Should Be Studying

afghanistan
first-draft-publishing
books
talibansourcesproject
primarysources
documents
taliban
2015-12-26

The Best Books I Read in 2015

books
2015-12-16

‘Obedience to the Amir’, or how the Afghan Taliban govern

books
pakistan
first-draft-publishing
afghanistan
publishing
taliban
2015-11-29

On Untangling Syria’s Socially Mediated War

language
journalism
tech
research
syria
social-media
2015-11-22

Upcoming Maniac Week

phd
useful-tools
productivity
work
maniacweek
2015-11-15

Misquoting Mohammad meets Sources & Methods

podcast
islam
2015-11-08

Vanishing Interest in Afghanistan

afghanistan
journalism
data
media
2015-11-01

Four Colours

podcast
useful-tools
notes
tools
pens
writing
2015-10-13

Taliban public punishments, 1996–2001

afghanistan
journalism
data
research
media
taliban
2015-09-24

Ecolinguism and the ethics of learning new languages

language
useful-tools
languages
media
2015-09-18

Sources and Methods: Back for Season 2

podcast
general
2015-09-09

How to Survive Middlebury’s Arabic Summer School Programme

language
useful-tools
languages
arabic
learning
2015-09-02

AFP covers the Taliban Sources Project

afghanistan
journalism
general
tsp
research
taliban
2015-08-28

Arabic Language Update: I did it! (Almost)

language
useful-tools
study
learning
tools
middlebury
languages
arabic
2015-06-07

How I use Goodreads to pick what I read

books
tech
useful-tools
data
quantifiedself
technology
2015-03-21

Apocalypse Then: a short review of Filiu’s ‘Apocalypse in Islam’ (2011)

books
islam
apocalypse
2015-02-25

North Waziristan: A Reading List

books
journalism
pakistan
waziristan
bibliography
reading
2014-12-31

Some Books and Other Things from 2014

books
2014-12-22

New book: An Educator’s Tale

books
first-draft-publishing
afghanistan
2014-12-10

Note-Taking Jujitsu, Or How I Make Sense Of What I Read

books
podcast
tech
useful-tools
2014-10-24

Sources & Methods: Podcast Follow-Up

podcast
useful-tools
2014-10-23

Our First Publication: ‘I Am Akbar Agha’, Memoir of a Taliban Insider

afghanistan
books
2014-09-16

Sources & Methods, or why I started a podcast

podcast
2014-09-07

An Ankified Urdu Frequency Dictionary

language
pakistan
useful-tools
2014-09-05

Two new co-authored reports on Afghanistan

afghanistan
journalism
2014-08-09

How to learn a language to fluency: interview with Gabe Wyner

books
language
podcast
2014-08-05

The Best Books I Read in 2013

books
2013-12-27

Taliban Time Travel, or How Our Understanding Is Almost Always Two Years Old

afghanistan
journalism
2013-09-23

Book of the Week: ‘Al-Shabab in Somalia’

afghanistan
books
somalia
2013-07-20

Translators Sought – Job Opening

uncategorized
2013-04-20

Learning to Code

tech
2013-02-04

Following Pakistan’s Elections

journalism
pakistan
2013-01-22

ISAF’s First Fifteen Days

afghanistan
journalism
2013-01-15

A Jedi-Mind Trick and Three Other Approaches to Learning Vocabulary

language
useful-tools
2013-01-13

Five Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Learning Languages

language
study
languages
2013-01-07

Useful Tools: Pinboard

tech
useful-tools
2013-01-02

Some Things I Read

books
general
2012-12-29

Catching Up: Poetry of the Taliban

afghanistan
books
2012-12-22

Catching Up: An Enemy We Created

afghanistan
books
2012-12-16

Catching Up: AAN Report on ISAF Night Raids

afghanistan
2012-12-10

Writing the history of the Taliban movement

uncategorized
2012-11-26

talibantwitterfight: The News Story That Wasn’t

afghanistan
journalism
tech
2011-12-28

Entropy and insurgent radicalisation: an ISAF goal?

afghanistan
journalism
2011-12-07

Vietnam’s Kill-Capture Raids

afghanistan
books
2011-09-19

Those ‘40 al-Qaeda insurgents’…

afghanistan
journalism
2011-09-13

An Appeal for Funding

afghanistan
phd
2011-08-20

ISAF Press Release Word Clouds

afghanistan
journalism
phd
2011-05-17

More data on ‘Kill-Capture’ Raids

afghanistan
journalism
tech
2011-05-16

Kandahar Prison Escape: the Taliban’s Tale

afghanistan
journalism
2011-05-15

TalQaeda: the Timeline

afghanistan
tech
phd
general
2011-05-13

The Afghan Taliban react to bin Laden’s death

afghanistan
2011-05-03

The Petraeus Effect

afghanistan
2011-05-01

‘The Kill Team’

afghanistan
journalism
books
2011-04-03

Afghanistan’s Child Soldiers

afghanistan
journalism
2011-01-30

Helmand Refugee Appeal Update - Distribution Day

afghanistan
journalism
general
2011-01-21

‘An Enemy We Created’: the website

afghanistan
books
general
2011-01-10

UPDATED: An Appeal

afghanistan
journalism
travel
general
2010-12-28

Deedee Derksen picks her 2010 books

afghanistan
journalism
books
general
2010-12-22

Real People as Agents

afghanistan
phd
books
general
2010-12-22

The Best Books of 2010 (UPDATED)

afghanistan
journalism
books
general
2010-12-18

Open Letter: The Response (UPDATED)

afghanistan
journalism
general
2010-12-14

An Open Letter to President Obama

afghanistan
journalism
general
2010-12-11

No Comment: McChrystal and Petraeus

afghanistan
general
2010-12-05

Taliban Realism over the September 11 Attacks

afghanistan
2010-11-26

Foreign fighters down south?

afghanistan
journalism
2010-11-23

Petraeus, Lisbon and the Great PR Push

afghanistan
journalism
2010-11-22

‘Fly Freely’ - Afghan Women’s Poetry

afghanistan
poetry
2010-11-13

Marie Colvin in Kandahar for the Sunday Times

afghanistan
journalism
2010-11-07

Irish Parallels

books
general
2010-07-07

Hope Is Not A Strategy

afghanistan
2010-07-03

Kandahar Timeline 1979-2010

afghanistan
tech
general
2010-06-21

On Experts

general
2010-05-22

Kandahar Portraits

afghanistan
journalism
2010-05-14

From ‘Ghazal’ by Shin Gul Aajiz

afghanistan
general
taliban-poetry
2010-05-01

Kandahar Chronology (September 2001-October 2009)

afghanistan
general
2010-04-29

Ask the Scholars: when and where was Mullah Mohammad Omar born?

afghanistan
taliban
2010-04-26

New(ish) Kandahar Blogs

afghanistan
2010-04-25

Jere van Dyk’s ‘Captive’

afghanistan
journalism
books
2010-04-24

Kandahar’s Electricity Problems

afghanistan
2010-04-23

Mullah Omar captured?

afghanistan
general
2010-04-19

Kandahar Survey

afghanistan
2010-04-18

‘So how is it?’

afghanistan
2010-04-16

Civilian Casualties from Zheray

afghanistan
2010-04-12

Hearts and Minds

afghanistan
2010-04-12

overheardinkandahar

afghanistan
2010-04-12

Back Home

afghanistan
general
2010-04-11

Real People, Real War

afghanistan
journalism
2010-02-08

FT does Kandahar

uncategorized
2010-02-05

John Nagl and ‘the future of counterinsurgency’

afghanistan
general
2010-02-02

‘Talking to Terrorists’

afghanistan
books
2010-01-30

Presenting Mullah Zaeef

afghanistan
books
travel
untitled
zaeef
2010-01-13

Staying Apart

afghanistan
journalism
travel
2010-01-08

5 Books Everyone Should Read About Afghanistan

afghanistan
books
dorronsoro
zaeef
jason-elliot
2010-01-01

New Year, New Website

general
2010-01-01
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