Heroic levels
April 28, 2021
Looking back, I can see obvious chapters in my life. Periods where I was trying out a certain mindset or lifestyle, learned about it, and moved on
Circles
April 4, 2021
I made a dataset of circles. I could not get a GAN to train on them at the time, but I went to all the trouble to align them, so I decided I would
The difference between magic and a magnet
March 22, 2021
is not that we know how one works and we don’t know the other one. It’s that you can see a magnet work
Language Arts 1.0
March 8, 2021
After many false starts and dead ends, I finally found a concept that would truly drive me insane. I finetuned my Code2000 symbol GAN model on a set
Nothing is what it seems
February 25, 2021
It’s literally impossible that you’re experiencing the real world. For one thing, literally everything you experience is a
Memetic Magic
February 21, 2021
Has anyone else read Memetic Magic by R. Kirk Packwood? I borrowed it from the library in college and it changed my life forever. I only found out
Delusion
February 9, 2021
I know a lot of wingnuts and moonbats, and I see a lot of seriously delusional worldviews in my feeds. This message is not for those people. This
Signal GAN
January 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
Opinions
January 11, 2021
The biggest problem with social media is that it makes people think anybody gives a shit about their opinion. You know those dweebs who are like “I
Book of the Damned
January 2, 2021
I trained a neural network to generate magic items. Now it’s obsessed with the Book of the Damned. “The altered effect lasts for 10 minutes, but
SimClusters
September 27, 2020
means we’re all living in the influencer dimension now https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3394486.3403370 if you're in the top 10,000,000
Robot Face
September 1, 2020
is an occasional essay on the relationship between humans and machines. My background is in whole-systems design and long-term thinking
The technology sector
August 6, 2020
In permaculture, we often rely on a zone/sector analysis: zones are the areas we visit more or less frequently, and sectors are flows of energy and
On the beginning of pandemic
March 14, 2020
Just got back from the grocery store and I am strangely euphoric. In small part, this is because I tucked away rice, beans and ramen weeks ago. ABQ
Social Graph
January 30, 2020
I like being on Twitter, and I have studied their algorithms and graph structures from several angles. Here are some of the maps I have made of my
Glitchcraft
June 12, 2019
I trained a GPT-2 model on a personal corpus of occult materials, and used iot to generate a book with a method I call recursive table of contents
PKD_head
December 1, 2016
One highly important element about Valis is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. — PKD's Head (@pkd_head) August
VUCA
October 31, 2016
is a Twitter bot I built in 2016, when I was first experimenting with Python and NLP. Status: active. Find VUCA on twitter: Take a look at how
SIGNAL: a book of secrets
October 31, 2014
It’s a compilation of secrets from various occult texts that I found in my time as librarian of witch camp. This book may be dangerous. See