Setting Up Korean IME (kime) on AWS DCV

How I fixed the issue where kime Korean IME only types one character before reverting to English on AWS DCV remote desktop.

February 21, 2026 · rick

Shooting Dead Enemies: Why Academia Keeps Fighting Zombie Debates

Why we keep resurrecting settled debates, and the irony of this very essay doing the same

February 1, 2026 · rick

runpod-log — A CLI Log Viewer for RunPod

A CLI tool to fetch and monitor logs from RunPod GPU Pods in real-time.

January 28, 2026 · rick

My Father's Technology Timeline

In 1990, my father bought a computer for his five-year-old son.

January 25, 2026 · rick

Do LLMs Have Thinking Styles? REI-40 Experiment on 5 Frontier Models

We administered the REI-40 dual-processing personality inventory to 5 frontier LLMs. The results reveal distinct ’thinking style’ profiles — from neutral responders to rational enthusiasts.

January 24, 2026 · rick

psyctl — An LLM Personality Steering Tool

Building an open-source tool that controls LLM personality using Steering Vectors.

January 24, 2026 · rick

Self-Actualization Is No Different from a Pufferfish's Sand Circle

Kenrick’s evolutionary reconstruction of Maslow’s hierarchy, and how digital services exploit our evolved motivational systems.

January 24, 2026 · rick

Two Minds in One Brain: Why We Act Irrationally Even When We Know Better

Why can’t you resist that midnight snack during a diet? Two independent processing systems live inside your head—one that calculates and one that feels. A look at Pacini & Epstein’s 1999 study on the Rational-Experiential Inventory.

January 24, 2026 · rick

The Curse of Talent, the Blessing of Temperament

Is talent a blessing or a trap? An analysis of how talent conditioned by short reward cycles sabotages long-term effort and breeds opportunism.

October 31, 2025 · rick

Sentence Reranking Using LLM Attention Maps

Leveraging what the LLM already knows. An experiment extracting document relevance signals from Attention Maps to rerank sentences, along with a survey of related papers.

September 12, 2025 · rick