Stephen Joe Jonany
Writing
Life Reflection
Mindset
Computational kindness (talk)
Choose without suffering (and with gratitude)
On spirituality
On being value-oriented
How I spend my time
Focus on the undervalued
Work happiness
Impact vs joy
Figuring out what to do with my “career”
Why I quit Google (the second time)❄️
New work mindset at Snowflake❄️
Sabbatical 3-month update
Book notes
Hell Yeah or No - Derek Sivers
More on
medium
Education
Why you still need to learn even when AI can do anything
Why AI won’t kill CS 101
Why we need in-person exams
Computing
LLM
Practical hallucination mitigation strategies
Improving RAG performance
Transformers for software engineers (in Python)
Transformers QK, OV, induction circuit
Transformers doing math
Mechanistic Interpretability — first look
Building Reliable LLM-based apps: The “Good Enough” Trap
AI-executable natural-language contracts
Can AI be funny? An exploration with texting on Android and ChatGPT
Privacy
Chrome extensions can steal your data — what you can do to mitigate this
Budget composition in differential privacy
Usable differential privacy: A tool to navigate the privacy-utility tradeoff
Correcting (ϵ, δ) misconception in differential privacy
GDPR, de-identification and compliance examples
De-identification / anonymization terminology, and why it’s confusing
Statistics
Comparing two binomial random variables
P-values when comparing two binomial random variables
Hobbies
How to convert lead sheet PDF to irealpro
Badminton forehand smash