odds & ends

installation macos (apple silicon) I’ve recently been having trouble with emacs-mac, so I’ve switched over to jimeh’s emacs-builds, which seems to be working alright.

Found out about the December adventure on Mastodon (likely from folks over at merveilles.town).

what is innovation?

package management uv I’m using uv to manage python versions and per-project virtual environments. uvx/uv tool One interesting feature of uv is the ability to run tools without installing them, e.g. uvx ruff (which is just an alias for uv tool run ruff) to

In Japanese, yojijukugo (四字熟語) are four-character kanji compounds that sometimes have idiomatic meanings.

marx’s definition Marx introduces the notion of commodity fetishism quite early in Capital. technology The material objects underlying the technologies with which we interact present themselves as commodities, products of social labor: The problem comes w…

marx’s definitions from the product of one’s labor in the labor process from species-being from others

I don’t remember exactly when it was that I stumbled upon gwern.net, perhaps high school or early college.

This is a test file in the garden.

At the threshold of detectability, both the surface of the negative and that of the thing it represents must be studied as both material objects and as media representations.

Boser, Guyon, and Vapnik (BGV) introduce support vector machines (SVMs) in [1] and their immediate application is that of optical character recognition (OCR).

I recently stumbled upon a programming interview question and the first solution that sprang to mind used a sprinkling of algebraic topology.

Recently I was curious about the origins and initial applications of the homological perturbation lemma (more on that below).