Now — Dec. 2025
Location: Germany and the Philippines.
Productivity
I am blown away by Parakeet for speech recognition.
I use it daily (with MacWhisper). My gratitude goes to Joao Pinheiro Neto for this recommendation.
I switched to an Apple Watch in October.
After about a decade wearing a Garmin, I partly wanted to try something new.
I still think GPT 4.5 is excellent and underrated.
For a short time, I paid the $200/month subscription to OpenAI to have access to this "legacy model". It's a shame gpt-4.5 was otherwise discontinued, incl. via the API.
Writing
I wrote a short piece for Good Authority about some of the recent free speech controversies.
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The essay is largely inspired by Emily Kubin's Political Psychology paper.
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It's extremely difficult to "live your principles" in general, support for free speech is no different. People often wish to block speech they consider harmful.
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But harm and falsity are of course often subjective...
Several of my papers are under peer review.
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I welcome criticism but I don't like how long we have to wait for it (we're at the 6-month mark - I might forget what my papers were about)
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A bit unhappy to see that the OSF general server seems to be gone, and SocArXiv has paused new submissions about AI topics for 90 days.
I keep occasionally writing short commentaries in Slovak
- These op-eds typically come out in Dennik N. I've written 6 in 2025.
- The one about the Netflix show Adolescence was good.