Kevin Donnellan from Explainable was kind enough to interview me with some very interesting questions. Here’s the full interview: First off, The Infinite Conversation. What first sparked the idea, why Herzog and Žižek? And could you talk through how practically you set it up? I wrote extensively about how the idea came about in this article. …
Enantiodromia
Wikipedia informs: Enantiodromia (Ancient Greek: ἐναντίος, romanized: enantios – “opposite” and δρόμος, dromos – “running course”) is a principle introduced in the West by psychiatrist Carl Jung. In Psychological Types, Jung defines enantiodromia as “the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time.”[1] It is similar to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system in order …
Version 2 of my solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame
It’s been over two years since I started tinkering with the idea of a solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame. My first version was functional but had a number of issues that made me go back to the drawing board. As a reminder, my goals were to build a digital photo frame that: The biggest issue …
Uncovering Uncommon Words in “City of Quartz” by Mike Davis
Recently, I finished reading “City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” by Mike Davis. The book is an incredible journey through the history of Los Angeles, exploring its urban, social, and political landscapes. While diving into the story, I was struck by Davis’ unique writing style and the sheer number of uncommon terms …
The thread connecting Tatjana van Vark and Alexander Selkirk
A few days ago, a Hacker News post discussed the incredible work of Tatjana van Vark, a mechanical engineer known for her handcrafted machines and artifacts, which are among the most beautiful and intricate in the world. Among the comments on this post, one person raised an interesting concern about the potential fragility of our …
My own personal Žižek
A few days ago, I woke up to the news that Slavoj Žižek wrote an article published on Die Zeit (behind paywall) about my latest work, the Infinite Conversation. I was elated to realize that the project had eventually landed on his desk, and overjoyed to see that he opened his article, in perfect Žižekian …
Exporting your emails as an MBOX file
As I was publishing the code for Memeoirs Redux, I realized I could use a refresher on how to create an MBOX file to process. Gmail handles importing of messages from different providers pretty well, so for the sake of this how-to, I’ll assume that your emails are either stored on Gmail or that you …
User error
It was his fault! [Citation not needed] Richard Trevithick was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, and his most significant contributions were the development of the first high-pressure steam engine and the first working railway steam locomotive. […] During further tests, Trevithick’s locomotive broke down three days later after passing over a …
haiku barada nikto
Check it out. After working earlier this year with Transformers, I gave GPT-NEO a try for Haiku generation. Not bad! Next step: add a rudder. Also, I think it would be cool to find a visualization method that would display branching and make the generation process interactive/iterative. …
My brief experience with the ONYX BOOX Nova 3 Color eReader
I got myself a color ePaper reader and concluded after a month of usage that the tech ain’t ready. …