I reviewed for JMLR and all i got is this (not) lousy gif
In support of nice digital artifacts as tokens of appreciation.
Sophia Sun
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Learning to Move, Learning to Play, Learning to Animate
An immersive performance featuring multi-modal generative machine learning model @ UCSD’s Qualcomm Institute.
How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
a.k.a. Richard Hamming vs. Richard Feynman
Evaluating Probabilistic Predictions: Proper Scoring Rules
Point predictions are often insufficient for machine learning tasks that involves uncertainty. As a solution, probabilistic models are becoming more widely used. This post talks about proper scoring rules, a framework to think about and evaluate probabilistic predictions.
Synthetic Erudition Assist Lattice
Update: We presented ur music video for Lockdown at the Machine Learning for Creativity and Design Workshop at NeurIPS 2022. our poster for NIME 2021 You can read the paper here and listen to our music here . This paper documents the music-making of the band Seals , for which I play bass and do machine learning. The Seals is a pet project with Margaret Schedel, Susie Green, Ria Rajan, and Sofy…
Found Materials Drawing Machine
I built a drawing robot with wood found in the desert! The machanism and software is heavily based on BranchioGraph , with a different construct and orientation that required some tinkering to figure out. very ad-hoc calibration setup ft. printed protractor and earing first run! It drew a bonfire. Even after calibration the drawing is still a little… wonky, because of the elasticity in the sticks,…
chicken soup for the cs phd student
Pieces of writings that I found helpful for thinking about research and surviving a PhD.
Karaoke of Dreams
This is a computer-generated karaoke I built with Sofy and Derek during our time together in Brahman.ai , Bombay Beach CA. For details, please see our paper :) Sofy building the tesseract.
Trees
This project is my little attempt at land art. I gathered dead trees from the deseart and replanted them, in a shape that resembles a half moon. Concentric patterns are raked on the ground on some days. Solar-powered LEDs climb the branches, both as a night-time safty measure and as a hint to, in some sense, a new kind of life. I call it 圆缺, Yuan Que, a word for the moon cycle from old chinese…
Implementing Self-Tuning Spectral Clustering
An (attempt at) implementation of the self-tuning spectral clustering algorithm by Zelnik-Manor and Perona (2014).