The grim and depressing landscape of Reddit communities
Another one of these graph t-SNE plots but this time for reddit
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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
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
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
Topology Optimization as a Network Flow Problem
Topology optimization is max flow over a voxel nearest neighbor graph
Options optimization ala Bellman
Using classical RL to trade options
Squaredance plot
A visualization of stock correlation over time
Style transfer by patch quilting
An application of Efros and Freeman to style transfer
A introductory video tutorial for candyfloss
A video tutorial of candyfloss
Picking Optimal Token IDs
What assignment of tokens to bit vector indexes results in the longest runs of zeros?
One Weird Hashing Trick
Bag-of-ngrams random projection without computing the bag-of-ngrams or the projection matrix
The Underwear Fixed Point
In which I fit a neural embedding to my gotosocial server
Unalaska Chapter 8
Al
Unalaska Chapter 7
The Boatman
Unalaska Chapter 6
Driftwood
Unalaska Chapter 5
Pleasure to be here
Unalaska Chapter 4
Chicken of the Sea
Unalaska Chapter 3
Tinkerbell
Unalaska Chapter 2
The Shadow Realm
Unalaska Chapter 1
The Cave
Slop Machines
How image and video generating models interact with feed recommender systems
Announcing the Machine Ghosts podcast
This blog now has an accompanying podcast
Sliding Back to the Ancien Regime
A response to Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Schumpeter
The Dark Airport of the Soul
liminal. laminar. laminated?
Saturation and the Triumph of History
How most of the behavior of Tech Leaders since 2016 can be explained by smartphone market saturation
What is the entropy of a ghost?
Hauntology and the Dead Internet
This is PFFX
A lossless neural autoencoder
Program Synthesis by Simulated Annealing With Thompson Sampling
In which we take the inverse of a compiler