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Self-hosted coding companion on vLLM with agent harness, workspace tools and deep reasoning.
Joseph Kaiser
Interested in finance, engineering and philosophy.
Creating performant systems.
Projects
Selected work:
myrssfeed
Self-hosted RSS reader on a Raspberry Pi with feed scoring, theme labeling, newsletter ingestion and a web UI.
Tools
Use whatever the right tool is for the job.
Languages
Right now, I am trying to learn to read more of the following:
rust
sql
arm assembly
other tools i've used in the past: python, matlab, c++, r, ampl, html/css, js/ts.
Philosophy
What is philosophy? Why is this section on here?
Philosophy is literally greek for the love of wisdom. It could be thought of as the history of thought. Or as a corpus of text centered around arguments over the ontological, metaphyical, epistemilogical, ethical, and more. Many works are conceived of in the spirit of philosophical tradition but not canonized. There are genuine fragments in the conception of what is philosophy that arise from disagreements of practitioners in academies around the world. There are also a few quacks who are included in philosophy as a catch-all.
To Socrates, philosophy is the practice of living the face of certain death. To Wittgenstein, philosophy is to practice a meditative rational thought. To me, philosophy is open ended exploration of concepts with strict adherence to any fact or logically true argument that can be shown by an interlocutor. Hence, the philsopher is obliged to accept from others certain conclusions if the facts are agreed and the argument is logical. What is a logical argument? That is often an area that gets disagreed upon.
For Rorty, arguments have cash value in determining social coherence where participants raise their voices in a democratic way to drive political outcomes. Hence a rational argument is a form of a good argument which is to say that the words uttered or written by a person are agreeable by other voices in the same discussion.
For me, I see value to philosophical reading and learning because it is critical practice to see multiple perspectives. Strong convictions, loosely held.
Contact
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