notes

This is the only post on this blog that an LLM was used for in any way.

the interactive version of the plot

Update: For a similar analysis of bluesky click here Twitter has a reputation for being a single global commons/town square; one large community that doesn't have any subcommunities in it (as opposed to say, reddit, that has explicit subcommunities).

Microkernels If you want a complete description of what microkernels are then read the wikipedia article, but in one sentence it's a kernel where everything is in userspace except for scheduling, managing access to I/O devices, and IPC.

Topology optimization is the problem of finding the shape that handles a given set of forces (sometimes called "load cases"), without any part of the shape exceeding its maximum load rating, using the minimum amount of material.

Say I gave you a time machine that let you look into the future and see the prices over time of a particular stock for the next two years.

Each frame represents a month of time, each point is a stock ticker, and the positions of the tickers are the first two principal components of the covariance matrix of their volumes over that month (using day-resolution volume data).

I have no face and I'm offering a screaming deal on this armored personnel carrier This is the result of applying Efros and Freeman to style transfer.

Here's a video tutorial introducing working with video data using candyfloss, my python interface to GStreamer.

I have a search index that stores, for each of a bunch of documents, the set of tokens that occur in that document.

Here's a little thing that's obvious once you see it but isn't obvious initially (or at least it wasn't to me).

I'm working on adding proper search support to GotoSocial, the fediverse server that I use.

The sky above the port is gray, the color of mycelium, the clouds like mushrooms hanging in the air.

Aurora is 26 feet wide, 16 feet long, weighs 800 pounds, and is currently flying a pattern at 1500 feet MSL and 70 mph.

Max wakes up with a crick in their neck.

It's a great pleasure to be here in Berkeley on a beautiful morning with Dr.

Skye is sitting at the computer in the office in the bunker, staring at the screen.

Max's arms are getting tired.

MAX to SKYE: Why didn't you tell me Arnold was Arnold Fortune?

Having figured out what plugs went into what sockets and gotten the power switched on, Skye settles in to the standard issue office chair in front of the monitor.

This is about the new generation of AI generated social media feeds like facebook's new Vibes product. feeds A social media feed is: a sequence of content items that are shown to the user where the user provides feedback about how much they like each item,

This blog is now also a podcast.

This is a response to Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter.

I just got through TSA.

The most important thing that happened in the US in 2016 was smartphones hitting market saturation in the US.

What is the entropy of a ghost?

audio version What is PFFX?

problem statement (learning programs) The problem we're trying to solve here is program synthesis; finding a program that minimizes a loss function.