More involved write-ups.

Five Interesting People Thinking, Speaking, or Spitting About Games

Games are not as numerous as we might feel they are. Not, at least, relative to the scale of entire digital content world. The ratio between the game consumer and the producer is still vastly over-sold compared to, say, the number of books or the number of images in the...
written on May 20, 24 (Mon)

Growing CLIPs

I am drowning in unfinished projects. At least four or five might have been worth closing up and writing about, but I turned around and suddenly a year went by. Looking them all over, I feel it is worth at least writing something down about these ideas, rather than leaving...
written on Jan 23, 22 (Sun)

Let's Face It

(click to open a colab session with this code) Code repository found here. Cartoon animation has had an interesting technological history. Every time new tools, algorithms, or graphical advancements were invented, some artists became concerned that the traditions of their wonderful craft would be automated away and relegated to The...
written on Sep 19, 21 (Sun)

A Lesser-Known Species in the Materiales Genus

The materialist is a concrete identity for many. Everyone has a character whom they conjure up to represent the epitome of modern consumerist lifestyle. A friend, a relative, a celebrity figure. Generally, a person’s reference frame conveniently places themselves at least before the worst of the materialists they know. Yet...
written on May 26, 19 (Sun)

T2 Thoughts - A Best Effort Voronoi

In a previous post I alluded to the curiously-named Movable Feast Machine. This blog post will elaborate on the movable feast machine and, through a small tutorial, guide you through a new computing paradigm. A paradigm that I find especially alluring because the problem solving techniques to write software for...
written on Apr 16, 19 (Tue)

Can Cellular Automata Help Us Understand Neural Networks?

Neural networks are popular. A quick search on Arxiv for ‘neural network’ in the abstract of its database of research papers yields about 15,000 results. By comparison, searching for the term ‘regression’ only produces just short of 8,800 results and this term encompasses the popular linear/logisitc regression method, which are...
written on Sep 30, 18 (Sun)

Moonwalking With Einstein - Book Review

For those who have not heard about the incredible feats of mnemonists, this book will impart a new perspective on the human brain and how it functions. If techniques such as the mind palace and the Major System are not new, the most you will get is some interesting history...
written on Sep 01, 18 (Sat)

The Black Cloud - Book Review

The Black Cloud blends true science with grandiose imagination. With less of the classic science fiction scent found in works by the likes of Asimov, Clarke, or Dick, its setting brings to mind Doyle’s Sherlock or Agatha’s Poirot - contemplative, strange, and outlandish - sparring with outer space omniscients. Sherlock...
written on Aug 26, 18 (Sun)

On Pando and Colonial Organisms

Pando is a Latin term meaning “to spread out” and fittingly it names the heaviest, and possibly oldest, organism that is still alive today: a ‘forrest’ of quaking aspen. Pano has a single shared root system spanning over five miles of which all the trees live out their cycle of...
written on May 11, 18 (Fri)

Chronon - a Temporal Puzzle

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Martin Gardner, Von Neumann. There are some minds that you cannot but helplessly admire. For admire - admiration, is exuded from them like a natural aura. These people find fascination in the insatiable and their ability to coax the beauty from something even as desperate as a...
written on May 01, 18 (Tue)

Flatland - Book Review

The argument for multi-dimensions is a beautiful one because it leaves most of the argument to the audiences’ imagination. Take a single point. Not an inkblot on a page, but a single pixel of our universe coloured in. There is no side to this object, no front - you and...
written on Jan 31, 18 (Wed)

The Art of Flow - Thoughts About Writing

Writing a piece, no matter how large, is artful. There is little point in creating fifty or so nice sentences, throwing them into the air, and pinning them where they land. Discouraging throwing does not mean discouraging risk nor originality. What one should focus on is flow. Imagine a motley...
written on Jan 05, 18 (Fri)

The Sense of Style - Book Review

So begins a book review. I haven’t addressed how I anticipate to write these reviews, but two things are certain: they will be short and they will adapt over time, hopefully settling into the nook of some suitable format. The crux of my writing ‘career’ was before I went to...
written on Dec 31, 17 (Sun)