stanford bunny

some of my recent oil paintings, which you can look at on my freshly updated portfolio website: zhanpeifang.com

i booked a work flight to leave 12:40am from pdx next week, which i plan to drive to immediately after the autechre set ends earlier that night.. diva behavior i fear

just ate a shockingly competent bowl of 螺蛳粉 in Kampala, Uganda

w6$$up peasants, I finally got off the Rancho Gordo Bean Club waitlist

virgin tikz vs chad whatever this is

going to be in nyc from 8/24-27 and 9/18-28ish, for those who'd like to drop by👋

figs from the tree in my housing co-op’s garden

in the past 7 days i’ve taken vaccines for: rabies (2 shots), meningococcal ACWY, yellow fever and cholera (last 2 are live virus). basically, what i’m saying is that i’m currently a walking gu jar

i see that purity ring are also cashing in on the 'low-poly rpg video game y2k nostalgia' trend

weirdly sophistiqué chart this week

RIP Landsat Next, we hardly knew ye

is it just me or is it that contemporary painting is extremely boring right now lol. last show that left an impression on me was dana lok at miguel abreu around the new year

is it good that i feel like i'm slowly dying while i've been debugging code for months and while i'm not painting lol. thank god it's almost summer

thinking about getting into baking panettone purely as a flex

just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

i watched the handmaiden and was kind of surprised at how girlbossy/feel-good it was?

just discovered some very impressive tikz gore franknielsen.github.io/Divergence/P...

TJ Clark’s recent essays.. god bless, not all of us are given the privilege of doing our boomer rambling in the London Review of Books

finally, the first pope who might conceivably know what the de Rham cohomology is😎

Everyone talks about his eXisttenz device but never about his evasive answer about having an assistant that’s either “from the neighborhood” or an “acquaintance of his wife” who is obviously a conjoined twin who he was separated from,

portland never disappoints

from a speech of Alexander Grothendieck at CERN in 1972 github.com/Lapin0t/grot...

it’s actually breathtaking how awful the CVPR website is, given that it’s..you know..a machine learning conference……… and the official CVF website looks like (maybe is?) a wordpress blog

git push origin bsky

firmly believe "terrorism" is really completely useless as a concept now and everyone should treat it as such, especially since the state is showing that its only response to mass violence is choosing whether or not to name it that

Giving up smoothness for lent

Glutton Who Would Not be Satisfied by All the Riches of Heaven

I'm taking my CS advisor's differential information geometry special-topics seminar this term, this is the textbook we're using for the first half, and I'm just now realizing that the "students" here are almost certainly not referring to undergrads b/c wtf is a submersion😭

please imagine: Maoist Standard English Clippy

It's not difficult to see that the collapse of the basic rule of law in the United States is inextricably linked to the bipartisan consensus on the legitimacy of Israeli genocide.

Easily my favourite April 1st paper this year. Brave and terrifying. #TeXLaTeX paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187 homepage: neuralatex.com

it's only a monte carlo technique if it was developed in Monaco (Prinçipatu de Mùnegu), otherwise it's just sparkling random sampling

just saw a 60-something man (probably a professor) speeding past me on a kick scooter outside the EECS building. never lose your whimsy

scored a great deal on a NEMO ultralight tent at ebay auction lol. exciting new levels of obnoxiousness about to be unlocked

The way "ai" gets deployed differentially is really fascinating to me. This is just using XGBoost, which is over a decade old but still basically state of the art for anything that isnt text or image data but its presented as basically synonymous with chatgpt, which would fail dramatically at this

uploading here the two ‘Two Moons studies’ i did a few months ago, oil and acrylic on panel, about the synthetic dataset commonly used in ML research

went for a walk

opening VSCode for the first time in over a week<<<<<<<

you have to write 2000 words about walter benjamin on the concept of history before i consider reading any of your posts about religion or atheism

i think it would be in bad taste to joke about ‘grad students are the most persecuted minority on earth’ now but allow me my bit of gallows humor

Hey y'all! This week we have a monster piece from Phil A. Neel on subimperialism along the Swahili coast. This one is definitely worth your time: spectrejournal.com/a-tale-of-tw...

“i don’t want to think of a witty caption, like, ‘this is my painting’”—me to housemate just now, today’s labors

I still haven’t figured out how to open a can of sardines without spraying olive oil all over myself

today on Bartók's birthday I have already dialed up a couple of Hungarian mixcloud playlists with Bartók stuff and right now in the space before driving my son to school I am jamming "Concerto for Orchestra" (Reiner & CSO). You too can live this triumphant life. Happy birthday Bela Bartók!

photos from yesterday’s 7.5 miler

Lol

kohei saito is going beast mode on twitter rn if you want to go over and see that

the number of ppl i observed in my real life (+ online) who seemed to think that by throwing Palestinians & those who cared for them under the bus, they might be able to save their own skins. Exactly the opposite. "In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian" isn't just a protest chant