The Big Sleep
Jan 26, 2021
Previously, I wrote about auto-completing language models — Transformers — and the feedback loop they create with our minds: Robert Anton Wilson, a
Signal GAN
Jan 18, 2021
In 2021 I used the raw images from SIGNAL to train a generative adversarial network, or GAN, to generate in-between images of the pages. It was one
Autocomplete everywhere
Jan 6, 2021
Previously, I wrote about speeding up your learning loop with artificial recall — specifically, the Thread Helper browser extension for Twitter.
Learning loops
Dec 29, 2020
Previously, I wrote about the learning curve that artificial intelligence models use in their training, and how we can apply it to our own studies.
Seasons change
Dec 22, 2020
🍂 Previously, In the autumn I wrote a lot about permaculture and biomimicry, digital gardens, and the virtual gestures that connect us. I finished
Berduck
Dec 15, 2020
They say you learn things best when you have to explain them to someone else. Learn what you’re all about, with Berduck: the friendly AI apprentice.
Book Cover Generator
Nov 28, 2020
An early experiment with the lightweight-gan architecture trained on a 55K-image book dataset. It doesn’t have the accuracy that later diffusion
See and Point
Nov 17, 2020
🕰️ Previously, I wrote about how our online worlds are limited by the way they’re built: the share/like/comment/follow architecture, built atop the
New social gestures
Nov 3, 2020
I’m not writing about the election today. I’m sure you’ve got plenty of that already. This is a newsletter about human-computer interfaces, as
Digital gardens
Oct 29, 2020
Previously, I’ve been writing about the gardening of software: using permaculture theory to reorganize the digital world. Thinking about technology
Zones of the mind
Oct 13, 2020
Previously, I wrote of the way that computers farm us into “communities” to make our attention easy to harvest and sell to corporations. We don’t
Legiblate
Oct 12, 2020
In 2020 I started the course “Deep Learning for Coders” from fast.ai. As one of my projects, I had to train an image classifier (fine-tune a Resnet
Where the humans end
Sep 29, 2020
Previously, I wrote about how trees garden the forest for themselves, how humans can garden the world for ourselves, and how we shouldn’t let the
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