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@mathowl

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mathowl
@mathowl Apr 7, 2024, 8:56 AM UTC

Research diaries #21: Open-source generative AI for videos with Comfy

As AI is already outperforming many human tasks it can be disruptive for many communities. I think it would be hard to stop or significantly slow down its advancement. AI is definitely also creating…

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mathowl
@mathowl Mar 9, 2024, 9:54 AM UTC

Espresso diaries #2: bug fixing the ROK

I think the Rok is a great espresso machine. There is something very satisfying about pressing down those arms and producing espresso. However it comes with many small problems that don't appear to h…

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mathowl
@mathowl Dec 26, 2023, 8:47 AM UTC

Espresso diaries #1: Manual shots

Lately I have been into espresso. It is an expensive hobby so I thought I would try to go budget & eco without cutting too much corners on quality. Parts of the espresso making process can be aut…

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mathowl
@mathowl Jul 14, 2023, 9:10 AM UTC

Research diaries #20: Builing another PC

Nowadays I have some projects that require a bit more computation power than usual. So I had the nice opportunity to build a stationary computation horse. My current mindset is that laptops are not r…

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mathowl
@mathowl Jul 2, 2023, 8:30 AM UTC

Research diaries #19: Unequal but not that unequal

A long while back I wrote a post about how unbiased randomness gives rise to extreme inequality. The underlying dynamics is that a few individuals have a lucky streak. This lucky streak results in an…

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mathowl
@mathowl Apr 21, 2023, 6:08 AM UTC

Research diaries #18: About inflation returning to normal levels

In the last year we have experienced extreme rates of inflation as we have an upward pressure on energy and food and a decline in export as a result of Covid and the war in Ukraine. As this normalize…

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mathowl
@mathowl Apr 9, 2023, 3:51 AM UTC

Research diaries #17: About sparseness of data and training neural nets

Typically a neural net is trained on large amounts of data. It will after training hopefully have good performance on this training set. Specifically, the tools for training a neural net are made in…

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mathowl
@mathowl Mar 21, 2023, 1:03 PM UTC

Research diaries #16: Reservoir computing, an AI which does not live inside a computer

In this post we will look at a fancy AI called reservoir computing. We will just be looking at the general concept. In a future post I will show you an implementation of this fancy neural net. By now…

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mathowl
@mathowl Mar 11, 2023, 2:29 PM UTC

Research diaries #15: Going down rabbit holes

In math everything you do has always to be consistent with the rules of logic. But the real goal of math is finding structure inside the logic. Usually finding problems with interesting patterns is n…

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mathowl
@mathowl Feb 26, 2023, 2:19 AM UTC

Research diaries #14: An optimization puzzle

Occasionally I do some algorithm puzzles. This is quite a fun one from Hackerrank with rubik like features. Today starting with the cat tax ^^ Suppose we have an array with integer entries. This arra…

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