Ben Golan

Doing a mix of cyber security and machine learning for an anti-drones company, hacking the drones while still in the air, through fuzzing and reversing. Switched from being an employee to setting up a one-person company and being a contractor.

Tried living in San Francisco, but got homesick for Israel. In Israel, friends are always nearby and get together often.

As a physics student, he'd not only solve the equations, but try to figure out how they came up with the equations in the first place. Then in mechanics, figuring out how to create the right question. Once you know what to ask, you get great results.

Programming is not about the calculations, but about the insight.

Andrej Karpathy showed how to create an LLM from scratch using only C and only CPU, with no external libraries, only 500 lines of C, no fluff.

Learning Hinduism: Names are distracting. Terminology is not the thing. Richard Feynman walking in the woods when someone asked if he knew the names of the birds. Learning physics without complicated names, using bricks and weights.