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
Education
Why you still need to learn even when AI can do anything
Why AI Won’t Kill CS 101
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