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Summary This is a fun little set of commands to run live-captioning on my Macbook! Nothing serious. I saw a post on HN that introduced me to Whisper.cpp. I’ve been excited to see so many AI tools start to support my M3 Macbook/Metal/whatever so I can put my 96GB of RAM to use! This was my first time trying out gpt-oss-20b locally, and it did pretty well helping me with ffpmeg commands. I don’t have the timing windows tuned perfectly. Feel free to play with it! Run Instagram-like captionin...| Brady Hurlburt
Brady Hurlburt - July 8, 2025 “But Don’t All Politicians Lie?” In 2015, Angi Drobnic Holan published a wonderful article titled “All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.” In it, she makes the case that while all politicians lie, there are meaningful differences in how often and how severely they do so. Here is the graphic from her piece: Her article resonates with me because indifference to political dishonesty is surprisingly common in my circles. In conversations with my pe...| Brady Hurlburt
Hi, I’m Brady Hurlburt. 👋 I live in Chicago with my wife and kiddos. I’m interested in philosophies of learning 📚 and in playing and teaching music 🎹. I work as a big-data pipeline engineer 📊 at Salesforce. Self Portrait 2024 I’d love to chat 💬. Feel free to email me. More About Me Schooling I like school 🎓. I’m a graduate of Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program with a focus in interactive artificial intelligence, and I have a BS in electrical engineering and an MA in teac...| Brady Hurlburt
Another song on the baritone ukulele that my dad built for me. Raw link Your browser does not support the video tag. Tabs (GuitarPro) Tabs (PDF)| Brady Hurlburt
“Due Midnight AOE” A song about having a newborn. Video shot by Bearded Science Guy. I wish I had a friend on Baker Island So when it’s late at night here I could call them Anywhere on Earth is just a timezone We’re up here humming Eno, the rest is ocean We’ve got walls caked with white noise It disappears in its way I guess it’s fair that I missed you but I’m sure I don’t know all the right things to say We started taking drives that you would sleep through We learned it just...| Brady Hurlburt
How We Think by John Dewey. 🎧 Dewey equates intelligence with the ability to suspend judgement instead of accepting dogma immediately. Thinking, then entails waiting to make a final conclusion while alternating between inducing to deducing – moving from particulars to ideas to particulars again. Here’s his example: A commonplace illustration may enforce the points of this formula. A man who has left his rooms in order finds them upon his return in a state of confusion, articles being s...| Brady Hurlburt
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. 🎧 You’d think that car safety ratings include testing woman-sized crash dummies in the driver’s seat, right? Nope. Ian Bogost talks about children having to live in world not designed for them. It turns out this world was also not designed for women either.| Brady Hurlburt
Want to help your kids experience classical music, but don’t know what to play? These are some of my favorites: What’s good for bedtime/wind-down/cleanup? Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, 2nd Movement. (Pro-tip: The second movements are always the soft, pretty ones.) What’s good for morning wakeup? Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue No. 7 from Opus 87 But aren’t they supposed to listen to Baroque/polyphonic music? Scarlatti’s sonatas, played by Vladimir Horowitz Bac...| Brady Hurlburt
The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns Enns argues that most of the Old Testament is not actually trying to get the historical events right: it is a narrative designed to help exiled Israel and doesn’t necessarily recount what happened or what God said or did. I find his arguments convincing. But, he says the Bible is still valuable for meeting God through the stories of how others met God. I’m not sure how to do that through stories that don’t always relay true things about God.| Brady Hurlburt
White Noise by Don Delillo Since this is the first post-modern fiction I’ve read, I can’t tell if the theme of this book is that you can’t know anything for sure, or if that’s just all post-modern books. The public-health-communication context hit pretty hard, though. Also, I think this Adam Driver movie is going to be great. It’s basically a thriller.| Brady Hurlburt
There should be a “Jack Antonoff Ruined My Favorite Band” club. How do I start a Facebook group?| Brady Hurlburt
I’m about to start a family Trello board. God help us.| Brady Hurlburt
I left an IntelliJ debugger running yesterday, so this morning I pulled my laptop out of my bag hot, fan running, and out of battery and all I could think was “same.”| Brady Hurlburt
In Mom Instsgram, slicing bananas with a plastic knife is the new reading.| Brady Hurlburt
Pork belly is the cream cheese of meats.| Brady Hurlburt
In How We Think, Dewey says that a shift from an attitude-of-play to an attitude-of-work is not a shift in interest in activities for their own sake to an interest in results and products. Instead, it is only a change in the type of activity the child is interested in: she declines those that are moved forward by whim in favor of those that move toward a product. She can be interested in an activity for its own sake and prefer that activity because it leads to a product.| Brady Hurlburt
I’m still working my way through The Authority of the Bible by C. H. Dodd, but here’s a highlight so far: Dodd claims that no one has ever honestly believed that all the parts of the Bible are equally as important.| Brady Hurlburt
From John Dewey’s How We Think: Direct immediate discharge or expression of an impulsive tendency is fatal to thinking. Only when the impulse is to some extent checked and thrown back upon itself does reflection ensue. It is, indeed, a stupid error to suppose that arbitrary tasks must be imposed from without in order to furnish the factor of perplexity and difficulty which is the necessary cue to thought. Every vital activity of any depth and range inevitably meets obstacles in the course o...| Brady Hurlburt
This is my first post via my little HTML posting web client and a Rails API on Heroku! It has been pleasant developing.| Brady Hurlburt
Here we go again.| Brady Hurlburt
Brown sugar is like, whole-wheat sugar, right?| Brady Hurlburt
This is my first post from the Ruby client I just wrote. I can now post quickly from the CLI. Look for quality to take a sharp downturn.| Brady Hurlburt
Favorite Things Public transit. I aspire to live somewhere with a subway one day. For now, I take the IndyGo 10 bus downtown to the office. Music All-time favorite mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (2006) Recent favorites The Beths - Future Me Hates Me (2018) Better Oblivion Community Center - Self-titled (2019) To fall asleep I need white noise to distract me Otherwise I pace around, hold my breath, let it out Sit on the couch and think about How living’s just a promise that I made| Brady Hurlburt
Love Wins by Rob Bell. Why did nobody tell me ten years ago that Love Wins is just a Great Divorce study guide? American Evangelicals making any claim on C.S. Lewis is ridiculous, because The Gospel Coalition blog would immediately declare him a wolf. The final chapter is a telling of the Gospel that is indistinguishable from (and accredited to) Tim Keller’s. It wasn’t weakened by following the “we all eventually turn away from Hell” chapter; on the contrary, I felt it more powerfully...| Brady Hurlburt
Democracy and Education by John Dewey. 🎧 There’s so much in this book, but I lived in “Chapter 23: Vocational Aspects of Education” for a while. (Emphasis below is mine.) There is a standing danger that education will perpetuate the older traditions for a select few, and effect its adjustment to the newer economic conditions more or less on the basis of acquiescence in the untransformed, unrationalized, and unsocialized phases of our defective industrial regime. Put in concrete terms...| Brady Hurlburt
After Evangelicalism by David P. Gushee Gushee says that he’s found his “church” in a combination of a Jewish synagogue, Catholic Mass, and a really good home group. That’s disappointing: I was hoping he’d make it easy and recommend some denomination. My cynical theory is that TGC crushed Rob Bell so hard that progessive Christians don’t start churches anymore; they just start podcasts.| Brady Hurlburt
For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy. On living unironically (emphasis mine): In all of these ways, West Virginia meant perfect confidence in the reality of things. I developed one of our hillside springs, digging out a natural seep, filling it with filtering gravel, and ditching out a pipe-run between it and our house, more than a hundred yards below. I drilled the boreholes that brought sap from the living wood of our maples. Although I never pulled the trigger when we slaughtered our steers...| Brady Hurlburt
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. I think about this a lot when my company gives us “Wellness Days” off: Due to the very success of this separate production of separation, the fundamental experience that in earlier societies was associated with people’s primary work is in the process of being replaced (in sectors near the cutting edge of the system’s evolution) by an identification of life with nonworking time, with inactivity. But such inactivity is in no way liberated from...| Brady Hurlburt
A song on the baritone ukulele that my dad built for me. Raw link Your browser does not support the video tag. Tabs (GuitarPro) Tabs (PDF)| Brady Hurlburt
Introduction to the Philosophy of History by Hegel. 🎧 About the only thing I remember from this is something like “history is the physical working out of reason.” Even so, that’s helping me out with the Marx stuff.| Brady Hurlburt
The “I forgot to submit my assignment” dreams have been replaced with “I forgot to submit my benefits enrollment” dreams.| Brady Hurlburt
I think text autocomplete is low-grade mind control, so I made a little app to try to demonstrate it. I copied a Google RNN tutorial, and I got to use Svelte for the first time!| Brady Hurlburt
Taking God at His Word by Kevin DeYoung This book convinced me that it would be great* if the Bible were innerrant, infallible, complete, and clear from a basic reading. It did not convince me that it actually is. * for some people| Brady Hurlburt
My 5HE is turning off Eye Saver on my monitor at around 2pm.| Brady Hurlburt
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov. The first half of the book covers three points: Not all problems are simply issues of efficiency. Some “problems” are in fact necessary tensions between contrasting philosophies and are not something technologists should try to erase. There’s nothing about the structure of “the Internet” or “Technology” that’s prescriptive for how we should set up our societies.| Brady Hurlburt
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. 🎧 Socialism: Scientific and Utopian by Engels. 🎧 I didn’t know that Marxism was all about the effects of the Industrial Revolution. “Everyone deserves to feel connected to the products and outcomes of their work” is what stuck with me.| Brady Hurlburt
I’m setting a goal for this year to become brave enough to open leetcode.com in my web browser.| Brady Hurlburt
What stage of quarantine is looping Jack’s Mannequin and Flyleaf?| Brady Hurlburt
Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design by Paul Resnick, Robert E. Kraut, and Sara Kiesler A comprehensive book applying basic economic and psychological principals to community design. I learned there are two types of affective commitment people can have to a group – identity-based and bond-based – and that turning knobs on your site that encourage one may hurt the other.| Brady Hurlburt
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Christian Smith and Michael O. Emerson White Evangelicals’ tendency to individualize issues and dismiss systemic explanations is not happenstance; rather, it follows naturally and inevitably from their (our? my?) defining religious beliefs. When the only thing that matters is a personal saving relationship with Jesus, it’s difficult to view anything outside of the lens of accountable freewill individualism.| Brady Hurlburt
Carl Hendrick in Aeon on our apparent failure to form growth mindset theory into an effective intervention: In their book Effective Teaching (2011), the UK education scholars Daniel Muijs and David Reynolds note: ‘At the end of the day, the research reviewed has shown that the effect of achievement on self-concept is stronger that the effect of self-concept on achievement.’ Many interventions in education have the causal arrow pointed the wrong way round. Motivational posters and talks ar...| Brady Hurlburt
You know, the not-a-cluster cluster.| Brady Hurlburt
I can’t tell if I’m not grokking “composition over inheritance” or if Go just really needs better mocking tools.| Brady Hurlburt
The Mayo Clinic parenting book doesn’t say at what age the baby can understand Phoebe Bridgers lyrics.| Brady Hurlburt
I’m pretty sure a bot could derive our company’s org chart based only on listening to who resumes talking after two people accidentally try to start talking at the same time on a Zoom call.| Brady Hurlburt
My dad gave me his old architectural lettering textbook. It’s tough, but I’m pleased with the progress I’ve made in a pretty short time so far.| Brady Hurlburt
It’s important to remember that most of your electronic devices just barely work.| Brady Hurlburt
Play Anything by Ian Bogost First, pay close, foolish, even absurd attention to things. Then allow their structure, form, and nature to set the limits for the experiences you derive from them. By refusing to ask what could be different, and instead allowing what is present to guide us, we create a new space. … creativity reveals itself to have far less to do with our own desires and vision and imaginations, and more to do with the world outside us, and how seriously we are willing to take it.| Brady Hurlburt
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Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek Set in context, the lean platform economy ultimately appears as an outlet for surplus capital in an era of ultra-low interest rates and dire investment opportunities rather than the vanguard destined to revive capitalism.| Brady Hurlburt
This tidbit from the Elm guide makes me happy, and reminds of me of Felienne’s work on the effectiveness of reading code out load when learning to code.| Brady Hurlburt
I just asked for a font for Christmas.| Brady Hurlburt
I just submitted my last exam for my last class in OMSCS. I’m done.| Brady Hurlburt
Sometimes I think numpy ruined a perfectly good language. intersection = ((pixels_0 < 255) & (pixels_1 < 255)).sum()| Brady Hurlburt
If you struggle to concentrate in a meeting about your company’s acquisition because the coffee shop is playing a deep cut by your favorite band, then being a CEO may not be for you. And you = me.| Brady Hurlburt
CSCW 2019 was “Champion Sponsored” by Facebook, and their closing keynote was from an EFF rep. 🤔| Brady Hurlburt
I’m reading an article comparing ant colonies to the human brain for class. The article is fine; the comment section is GOLD. Pure, too-bad-about-the-Internet gold. I want ReplyAll to find these twoguys and interview them. This goes for PAGES. ReplyAll mid-episode plot twist: they’re the same dude.| Brady Hurlburt
Not sure if it’s more unhealthy to write little quips with the possibility that no one ever reads them or to write little quips with the hope that millions of people of who didn’t ask for them read them.| Brady Hurlburt
Ok, so it wasn’t an original idea. So what? When me, my wife, and a few friends sat down at Garfield Brewing near a stop of Indianapolis’ brand-new Red Line rapid transit system, we were beginning what we called the “Red Line Pub Crawl”. And… so were the folks at the table next to us. An IndyGo Red Line Bus. CC BY-SA 4.0 Momoneymoproblem Inevitably, we had friends that couldn’t come for the entire crawl but wanted to meet us later along the way. So they wouldn’t have to call us,...| Brady Hurlburt
These are the design principles that I try to use to guide decisions at Rovercode We are not gamifying an otherwise dull activity. We are not wrapping a shiny layer of “fun” around a chore. We are creating a playground in which students learn about code by exploring and embracing its constraints and peculiarities. We can’t and shouldn’t try to make writing a reflection journal a delight, but we should make sure that it’s a safe, purposeful, and rewarding experience. Further reading:...| Brady Hurlburt
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Brady Hurlburt - July 8, 2025 “But Don’t All Politicians Lie?” In 2015, Angi Drobnic Holan published a wonderful article titled “All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.” In it, she makes the case that while all politicians lie, there are meaningful differences in how often and how severely they do so. Here is the graphic from her piece: Her article resonates with me because indifference to political dishonesty is surprisingly common in my circles. In conversations with my pe...| Brady Hurlburt