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May

April/May '23 Update & Screenshot Dump

Yes, it's May now. Fuck you. Despite my optimism in the last update, the rough patch continued.

We had to say goodbye to our cat, Bartok. I've never been a cat person, but he wormed his way into my heart over the past few years. He was a beautiful little asshole, and it hurt a lot to see him in so much pain at the end. Still, we had a few happy days with him before we had to put him down, and he went down peacefully and painlessly. I'll miss you, buddy.

As all this was happening: we had

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04

Mar

March '23 Update & Screenshot Dump

I haven't blogged yet this year. As always, not having a consistent schedule I feel obligated to fulfill tends to lead to me not doing things. But I figured I'd follow up on my end-of-year post, check in on what's been going on and where I'm at on the goals I set at the end of 2022, and maybe set myself up for a few follow-ups.

So Far This Year

January

It's been a wild few months! I forced myself not to start any new projects or another hundred days during January, despite getting bored out of my skull, because

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Dec

2022: A Series of Small Steps

Update: I accidentally jumped ahead a year in the initial post. 2021 was The Bad Year and 2022 was The Good One. Sorry, time is difficult.

2021 was not a hard year to beat. Someday I'll probably write about it in full, but suffice it to say my mental health was about the worst it's ever been. So bad that I had to quit one job and take a metric ton of psychiatric medication just to stay functional for the other one.

This led to a pretty serious re-evaluation of how I was living. It turns out that investing your

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09

Dec

Enter The Demon Zone

Intentional and Unintentional Machine Learning Failures

For the past few months, I've been working with machine learning and intentionally overfitting/breaking models. This is very much a work in progress, but is an attempt to explain why I think these phenomena are so interesting. I welcome your feedback as I continue to work through these ideas.

Overfitting is a well-documented phenomenon in machine learning, and one widely considered to be undesirable. It's what occurs when your model works too well, when it can perform perfectly on a training set but can't respond to new data. This can often result from

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Nov

100 Days, Day 60: Month 2 Reflections

I have settled into something of a rhythm at this point. A whole lot of it is still just daily sketches, but at least I'm sharing them somewhere.

I think, as far as the goal of moving my archives over to this "new digital home", I am accepting defeat. I'd still like to, but it's just not my highest priority right now.

On the plus side, I am staying consistent, and I've been feeling more creatively inspired. It's been a really hectic month that lends itself to sketching rather than working on longterm projects, but a lot of ideas for

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