Tomorrow is race day! To be honest, I’m not very excited. I was very excited a few weeks ago, when I was feeling strong. Currently I’m mostly feeling weak, that I’ve fallen into the trap that I can do something I cannot, demotivated by training hiatus and hurting knee. I’m afraid that I will not be able to finish, either because of my knee or because its too hard. I will find it humiliating – that I thought I was something I was not.…

Another four weeks of training are done. This is the last “regular” four weeks segment. The next four weeks will be “peak week” and then taper until race day. Schedule adherence A few days after a long distance session I had bad feeling in my knee. This has now been going on for a week. I took a test run, which didn’t feel well and I was going to return home.…

I’ve finished my next four weeks of training for running a marathon. I’ve been traveling and had a general lack of motivation to sum it up, so I lag behind. That also means I lag behind in keeping myself accountable. Schedule adherence I had some travel and illness that put a dent in my schedule. But my motivations is still there, which is more important. The total distance I’m expected to have run each week.…

I’m going to preface all this with saying I’m not a biologist, data scientist or AI researcher. This is just, as the rest of the blog, my thinking process. A friend and I had a discussion about a year ago what constitutes intelligence. It was in the wake of GPT 3.5, which spurred a lot of misapplied and half baked solutions of LLMs. We came to the point where the question was if GPT takes input and produces an output (a response), isn’t that also what human beings are doing?…

In theory its pretty easy to setup automatic deployment of a static site. Build the site Copy the contents to server In reality, there are some things that makes it a little more difficult, and got me in trouble. It must all be run automatically (no interaction) Security must be considered so that you don’t leak secrets Copying from a server to another is more complicated than copying a file on your hard drive The fact that this post is published is evidence that it works – because it was all built and deployed automatically, two days after writing this.…

Password-less SSH relies on creating private and public keys that are used when logging in via SSH. Last time I was doing this it was a convoluted process of generating keys, copying them to the remote machine, and possibly also some installation. I don’t know if this changed or I didn’t find the correct instructions last time, but it is very trivial. The pair is generated on the client computer. The public key is then added to the host, which will use the public key to authenticate you.…

I’ve finished my next four weeks of training for running a marathon. Here’s how it has been going. Schedule adherence Adherence is fairly strong. I’ve had two issues: I ran into a rock on one session, which caused less run kilometers that week. Sometimes its difficult to get the week to add up with other commitments that week. The total distance I’m expected to have run each week.1 The longest single distance each week I’m expected to run.…

I’ve finished my first four weeks of training for running a marathon. Here’s how it has been going. Schedule adherence I have a training schedule that I try to follow. (More on that in a later post) Here’s how it looks, and where I am now. I was sick this week, so I missed one training session, and thus did not reach week #4’s total distance target. The total distance I’m expected to run each week.…

It is inevitably a challenge to run a marathon, and not all succeed. I’ve spent some time trying to figure out what my odds are. I think its important to be realistic; you’ll spend an awful lot of time running and its not without risk. (Injuries) I’ve read that good predictions come from a) looking at prevalence, and b) update your estimates as more information becomes available. So, that’s what I’ll do.…

I’ve been running on and off for a few years. I don’t know exactly how it began, but I know the turning point was the first time I ran 10k and realized that a) I could do it, and b) its quite a distance. Usually, I take a hiatus during winter because of the cold, combined with a condition I have with peripheral circulation. Sometimes I resume, sometimes I don’t.…