- Mon 10 August 2026
- misc
Mind the spectral gap
We show how to measure the propensity of a social network to drive people into rabbitholes and apply that to twitter and bluesky
Articles
- 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
- 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
- Thu 16 July 2026
- Progress Report
Topology Optimization as a Network Flow Problem
Topology optimization is max flow over a voxel nearest neighbor graph
- Mon 02 March 2026
- Progress Report
Options optimization ala Bellman
Using classical RL to trade options
- Thu 26 February 2026
- Progress Report
Squaredance plot
A visualization of stock correlation over time
- Wed 25 February 2026
- Progress Report
Style transfer by patch quilting
An application of Efros and Freeman to style transfer
- Thu 19 February 2026
- Progress Report
A introductory video tutorial for candyfloss
A video tutorial of candyfloss
- 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?
- 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
- Mon 10 November 2025
- Progress Report
The Underwear Fixed Point
In which I fit a neural embedding to my gotosocial server
- Tue 21 October 2025
- Fiction
- Thu 16 October 2025
- Fiction
Unalaska Chapter 7
The Boatman
- Tue 14 October 2025
- Fiction
Unalaska Chapter 6
Driftwood
- Sat 11 October 2025
- Fiction
Unalaska Chapter 5
Pleasure to be here
- Thu 09 October 2025
- Fiction
Unalaska Chapter 4
Chicken of the Sea
- Wed 08 October 2025
- Fiction
Unalaska Chapter 3
Tinkerbell
- Mon 06 October 2025
- Fiction
Unalaska Chapter 2
The Shadow Realm
- Sun 05 October 2025
- Fiction
Unalaska Chapter 1
The Cave
- Sun 28 September 2025
- misc
Slop Machines
How image and video generating models interact with feed recommender systems
- Thu 18 September 2025
- misc
Announcing the Machine Ghosts podcast
This blog now has an accompanying podcast
- Sun 14 September 2025
- Econ
Sliding Back to the Ancien Regime
A response to Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Schumpeter
- Sat 06 September 2025
- Fiction
The Dark Airport of the Soul
liminal. laminar. laminated?
- 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
- Sat 30 August 2025
- Culture
What is the entropy of a ghost?
Hauntology and the Dead Internet
- Fri 13 June 2025
- Progress Report
This is PFFX
A lossless neural autoencoder
- Tue 10 June 2025
- Lab Report
Program Synthesis by Simulated Annealing With Thompson Sampling
In which we take the inverse of a compiler