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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31
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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11
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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17
Oct

erasure poetry with Amiri Baraka and Ron DeSantis

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Code lives here.

Reading about detournement this week has me thinking of this meme by Trevor Allen.

o, the Pelican. so smoothly doth he crest. a wind god!

If, for Debord, detournement is about creating new webs of meaning, and robbing existing signs of their own meaning, then erasure seems like a powerful method of reframing recognizable corpuses (corpi?). I'm especially interested in his point that a detournement is less effective the more it approaches a rational reply. Rather than trying to "embrace debate" or critique our political enemies directly, the goal

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