Dixi.

Introduction This summer I again worked on the loo package as part of the Google Summer of Code 2026.

Chekhov’s Gun⁠ essentially says that unnecessary details should be penalized—more directly, if a gun is introduced in Act 1, it should be fired by Act 2 or 3.

In accord with my new, standardized theming which I’ve since adopted across various sites (mostly software projects), I have updated the formatting and typography of this site too.

Demo⁠ I’ve been meaning to make my own theme/branding to use across my various pkgdown sites, and ever since learning about _brand.yml⁠ I have wanted to use that as the core.

I’ve been stuck on a problem I ran when trying to integrate mori with mirai—specifically, if a user has a compute profile with mixed remote and local daemons, what is the cleanest way of mori sharing arguments to just the local daemons and copying data to…

See the previous GSOC post for some background.

I arranged a portfolio⁠, designed to show the breadth of my photography.

I’m excited to be accepted into the GSOC 2026 cohort, continuing to work on loo, but this time focusing on parallelizing loo⁠.

I finally mirrored some repositories on my tangled⁠, motivated in part by the ridiculousness of GitHub lately.

This is my final report for CSC 369: Introduction to Distributed Computing at Cal Poly.

tl;dr: I want science fiction artificial intelligences like Olivaw et al., and I want to reserve the term AI for that kind of intelligences, not for LLMs.

We took a coach to LA.

9/10 Published in 1908 by Natsume Soseki.

Pardon the self-aggrandizement—though such an apology probably should precede most pieces in this collection anyway.

Last year I said that transformers will be gone in a decade (2035), but didn’t say anything of substance beyond that.

Every so often I forget how much of a pain using my old PH-1 (rooted, LineageOS 20—yes I know I should update) as a server is and give it a go.

There are two forms of regret: regret due to a shift of values, and regret due to a change of information.

I learnt coding in Python, some years ago, but I stopped coding soon after.

Simple: 1 fun(args) Blog post done.

I took a general education course with my roommate in Winter Freshman year, History 202: “United States History Since 1865”, practically the first course we took together.

In second year, I moved to a small flat.

I’ve been too lazy to type this out for a while, so this tiny post has been delayed by almost a month I think.

Goodhart’s law⁠ is a somewhat famous statement, essentially saying that “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”.

I’ve been thinking about revising my piece on intelligence for a long while, but I’ve decided finally to opt not to replace it wholesale and instead write about things I wish to update as they come.

I have a very uncommon (first and last) name.

One of these woeful college spring days I happened upon a two meter high beach ball on my way home.

Introduction Difficulty is a difficult thing to pin down.

To begin, I wish to address the title, which I picked because I like alliteration even though it pains me to abuse terminology.

9/10 Published in 2004 by Haruki Murakami.

Eagle eyed readers may notice changes in the look of the site.

So recently, this paper⁠ from OpenAI has been going the rounds, talking about hallucinations.

You have alighted upon a break in the book, a section of peace and quiet where my role is (thankfully) diminished and I bring you to some stories and happenstances which did not merit their own chapters alone and so have been collated in these Interludes.

8/10 Published in 2023 by Haruki Murakami.

9/10 Published in 1951 by J.D.

Introduction This summer I worked on the loo package as part of the Google Summer of Code 2025.

I have moved my fiction writing from this site to a new one which you can find by hitting Writing⁠ at the top menu.

It all started when I stepped away from my PC for a few minutes to drink water or eat food or something, I can’t even remember at this point.

In the summer of ‘24, I toured France with the school’s symphony.

Inside every old person is a young one wondering what happened — Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures) I turned 20 recently.

6/10 Published in 1971 by Fredrick Forsyth.

6/10 Published in 2017 by Haruki Murakami.

Ok finally met with mentors again and made some progress.

7/10 Published in 2014 by B.J.

I posted this as a reply on BlueSky sometime recently, but I’m a touch baffled by the lack of consumer facing stats space/diffusion/hybrid models.

If you navigate to search you can see the lunr.js powered search.

I just learnt that Canvas is open source under AGPL3⁠??

The bathroom was putrid, rancid, rank—practically by definition.

Mostly just penning some ideas that have been floating around in my head.

I wrote about swapping to Linux a while ago, but I’ve been using NixOS on-and-off for a bit since then.

Finally done with conferences and taking a short break to recover and relax.