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The Silver Obligation
The Privacy Act does not specify the denomination in which compensation under the statutory privacy tort must be expressed. This article argues the denomination is governed by common law nominal damages principles, and the answer is silver. Speculative legal fiction set in 2032.
Unfold your Agents
Most agents should be views. The orchestration problem was solved before most of us were born.
Preachers at the beach
A beach allegory for AI summer, and the preachers who showed up.
Keycarver
I had a junk drawer of old USB drives and a suspicion that some lost Bitcoin keys were still on them. The keys were there. The wallets were empty.
Earnest
A baby name ranker for people who find 400,000 options exhausting.
The Literal Listener
A pragmatic speaker, in Chris Potts' sense, reasons about a literal listener. Train one, and it will learn what the listener likes. That's not the same thing as learning what the listener knows.
Tilting at Windmills I
REINFORCE applied to nonce prediction, and why SHA-256's avalanche effect makes the expected gradient exactly zero.
Ultimately the Survivors Do Not Prevail
Training multi-agent reinforcement learning in a zombie game taught us something that wasn't really about zombies: the environment is a more powerful programming language than the reward function.
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Lords Ipsum — GPT-2 Hansard
Fine-tuning GPT-2 on Hansard transcripts to generate text in the style of the House of Lords.
Dynamic DNS with AWS Route53
Automatic DNS updates for a dynamic IP using AWS Route53, bash, and cron.
bernoulli.cr
Bernoulli numbers in crystal-lang.
Indirect Programming
Changing Expectations on Machine Program Expressibility.
initial commit
Why every git repository should start with an empty commit.