A blog about Math, AI, Pokemon, Pynchon and Game Development
Nocturnal Pokemon sessions with the windows wide open to recover from the summer heat. Building a team that feels so good and then seeing it fall from 1995 back to 1700. Is it because of the fever? Is it because the Meta adapting to Metagross? Is it because I have neglected my sleep in order
Greg Egan latest short story collection Sleep and the Soul just dropped. It s the kind of stories that I know and love him for, this time maybe with a touch more ambiguity and cooperation/trust as an overarching theme. In the remainder of the blog post, I ll give a quick rundown of the stories. If you
I feel techniques for making machine learning work with small data are not talked about enough. This makes sense because many ML applications are only possible by collecting a huge amount of data. And running Kaggle competitions on small datasets would basically be the same as running a guess the random number competition. For evaluating
After almost 7 years working at meteocontrol, I decided to take a little break from regular software development and make one of my long term dreams come true: Developing a surfing game and releasing it on Steam. I thought about making a game like this ever since I was sixteen and learning to windsurf on
In one of my last posts I puzzled over this section in Gravity s Rainbow: And what is the specific shape whose center of gravity is the Brennschluss Point? Don’t jump at an infinite number of possible shapes. There’s only one. It is most likely an interface between one order of things and another. Pynchon, Thomas.
The real story is the one not being told The Easy Chain. p.501 The Easy Chain white paper was released in 2008 by its pseudonymous creator Evan Dara. It s called white paper because of its many blank pages and contains instructions on how to blow up the financial system. But that s not the only advice
Is it possible to replace numerical weather prediction with deep learning? Certainly not yet. But first work is being done to investigate this question. In this post I want to discuss a paper called MetNet: A Neural Weather Model for Precipitation Forecasting that Google Research published back in March 2020 and in which they try
I didn t do a math post in quite some time, so here is a quick one to get back into the game. It s about some mathematical imagery in the Putzi s section of Gravity s Rainbow: Other souls move, sigh, groan unseen among the sheets of fog, dimensions in here under the earth meaningless—the room could be
and at that point I came upon a photograph of a hardhat eating strawberry yogurt, and I suddenly heard myself thinking This is not innocent, this is not unknowing, every angle and facet and posture in this has been mapped out and calculated for maximal effect; Dara, Evan. The Lost Scrapbook This book was published
Season 13 was the first one since Season 1 that I got some laddering done. As I built a pretty fun team, here is a short team report. The team was built around my favorite Pokemon: Entei! I used these two teams as inspiration: Unfortunately Entei is so heavily outclassed by other Pokemon, that it s