Articles

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• Fri 07 August 2026
• misc

Twitter isn't a town square, it's a high school cafeteria

Twitter data shows distinct clusters of users, and differences in how tightly different groups of users cluster explains the relative success of different groups on social media

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• Sat 25 July 2026
• misc

Maybe we should revisit microkernels

IOMMU and other hardware features that are standard today solve the problems that made microkernels not viable in the 90s

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• Thu 16 July 2026
• Progress Report

Topology Optimization as a Network Flow Problem

Topology optimization is max flow over a voxel nearest neighbor graph

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• Mon 02 March 2026
• Progress Report

Options optimization ala Bellman

Using classical RL to trade options

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• Thu 26 February 2026
• Progress Report

Squaredance plot

A visualization of stock correlation over time

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• Wed 25 February 2026
• Progress Report

Style transfer by patch quilting

An application of Efros and Freeman to style transfer

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• Thu 19 February 2026
• Progress Report

A introductory video tutorial for candyfloss

A video tutorial of candyfloss

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• Fri 05 December 2025
• Progress Report

Picking Optimal Token IDs

What assignment of tokens to bit vector indexes results in the longest runs of zeros?

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• Wed 12 November 2025
• Progress Report

One Weird Hashing Trick

Bag-of-ngrams random projection without computing the bag-of-ngrams or the projection matrix

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• Mon 10 November 2025
• Progress Report

The Underwear Fixed Point

In which I fit a neural embedding to my gotosocial server

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• Tue 21 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 8

Al

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• Thu 16 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 7

The Boatman

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• Tue 14 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 6

Driftwood

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• Sat 11 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 5

Pleasure to be here

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• Thu 09 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 4

Chicken of the Sea

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• Wed 08 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 3

Tinkerbell

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• Mon 06 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 2

The Shadow Realm

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• Sun 05 October 2025
• Fiction

Unalaska Chapter 1

The Cave

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• Sun 28 September 2025
• misc

Slop Machines

How image and video generating models interact with feed recommender systems

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• Thu 18 September 2025
• misc

Announcing the Machine Ghosts podcast

This blog now has an accompanying podcast

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• Sun 14 September 2025
• Econ

Sliding Back to the Ancien Regime

A response to Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Schumpeter

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• Sat 06 September 2025
• Fiction

The Dark Airport of the Soul

liminal. laminar. laminated?

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• Mon 01 September 2025
• Culture

Saturation and the Triumph of History

How most of the behavior of Tech Leaders since 2016 can be explained by smartphone market saturation

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• Sat 30 August 2025
• Culture

What is the entropy of a ghost?

Hauntology and the Dead Internet

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• Fri 13 June 2025
• Progress Report

This is PFFX

A lossless neural autoencoder

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• Tue 10 June 2025
• Lab Report

Program Synthesis by Simulated Annealing With Thompson Sampling

In which we take the inverse of a compiler