The Gossamer Condor Principle
Karpathy's autoresearch and a 1977 human-powered airplane share the same breakthrough insight: make attempts so cheap that failure becomes irrelevant.
Chuck Wooters
Head of AI @ Displace | Human language technology researcher based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Latest posts
Audio Steganography with miniDSP
Hide secret messages inside audio files using three different techniques - LSB encoding, ultrasonic frequency-shift keying, and spectrogram text art.
Spectrogram Text Art with miniDSP
Hide readable messages inside audio spectrograms - a fun DSP trick inspired by a tool from my grad school days.
AGENTS.md: Less is More
A recent study found that CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files often reduce AI coding agent performance. I built a Claude Code skill to fix that.
Acoustics
Why a pigeon's sound doesn't echo.
Punctuation is Important
A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence.
Getting Started
Welcome to my blog where I'll share thoughts on AI, language technology, and other random stuff.
Cowboy Architects
Simpler times, simpler zoning laws.
Fightin' Words
When your vocabulary is a bit too confrontational.
Human Hand Under A Microscope
A literal interpretation of science.
Cartoon Pun
When you're slightly dyslexic and have an active imagination...
miniDSP: A Small C Library for DSP
A C library offering signal processing functions, live audio I/O, and plotting capabilities.
The Berkeley Restaurant Project (BeRP)
A demo of the Berkeley Restaurant Project (BeRP) from 1993.
The Berkeley Restaurant Project (BeRP) Transcripts
Transcripts and audio for the BeRP speech corpus, a testbed for speech recognition from the 90s.
Creating a unique array of objects in javascript
How to remove duplicate objects from an array in JavaScript.
Go Compile Script
A bash script to compile Go executables for multiple platforms.
Find Outliers using Python
A Python function to identify outliers in a dataset using the modified z-score method.
Git+GitHub Collaboration Notes
This gist provides some info on how to collaborate on software projects using git+GitHub.
React.js Beginner Notes
Notes from a beginner learning React.js for building user interfaces.
Installing LBFGS on OSX
Instructions for installing the LBFGS library on Mac OSX and using it with the SRI LM Toolkit.