Today I implemented simple-jax-nn, a simple neural net for the MNIST dataset, written with JAX. I managed to get it to use my MacBook’s GPU/Accelerator through the Metal support in jax-metal

This week, whilst troubleshooting video encoding discrepancies for a film, I was reminded of the immense wizard power of debugging: the art of systematically bisecting your way to the root cause of a problem, then devising the cleanest fix. | 1\n

My review for Flowers for Algernon

5 stars for Piranesi

Reflections on Vibecoding

Do I choose evil!?

This was entertaining casual reading, but lacked some of the deep concepts of science fiction that I love. After the initial gimmicks of high-G transit and Coriolis effects on artificially-spun asteroids wore off, it occurred to me...

I recently released 🎶 Music Melee 🎶, a high-speed parkour FPS for making beautiful music and high scores in your browser. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out for a few day's work. I focused on making it feel, sound, and look deeply satisfying.

New book review: Altered Carbon This is a peak detective thriller soaked in a visceral and depraved cyberpunk future...

Inside you there are two wolves...

Diffusion is autoregression in the frequency domain...

Aside from the interesting new friends, S-tier programmer memes, and new work opportunities, why would someone want to spend 6–12 weeks at the @recursecenter.bsky.social ? Because it’s one of the most potent environments for growing both your taste and agency as a programmer!

We're so ready to cook now...

A bespoke, artisanal piece of UI that I lovingly crafted with Svelte ❤️ Now go make art ... and AI shitposts

I whipped up `richify` It brings the capabilities of Rich and the power of Astral's uv to streaming output. So using LLMs in your terminal feels and looks better than any GUI now.

What does it mean to have agency? To be an agent? In Reinforcement Learning, an agent is formulated mathematically — some set of actions it can take, some goal, some way of understanding how actions interact with the environment to achieve the goal.

Become Stronger. Defy Nature. Have Fun.

One of our personal favorites is AImong US 🤖 gianluca.ai/aimong-us-ga...

You can build so much in 12 weeks! Check out everything @gianlucatruda.bsky.social made during his batch 🐙 gianluca.ai/made-at-recu...

Make games people play

All the most fun things in life are either the ones you’re explicitly told not to try at home, or the ones you’re only supposed to try at home.

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We cookin' this year...

fn main() { println!("Hello World!"); }