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
is the intelligent rubber duck who helps you think out loud. Find him on Bluesky and check out his Know Your Meme page. At Ribbonfarm
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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