From the notebook
A thought worth
keeping.
Clouds become punctuation. A speaker becomes a way to sense motion. Field notes on the questions, methods, and limits behind the experiments.
11 notes
The hours I like best
A perfect day at Stone Mountain, missing the Bay Area, and the Georgia mornings and twilight I have come to love.
How big a telescope would it take to see another Sun 100 pixels wide?
A Sun-sized star, a 100-pixel picture, and a telescope measured in kilometres. A short calculation about stellar surfaces, pixels, and resolution.
Room for both
A field note on music, dancing, and leaving a little room for conversation.
Give me the pieces first
How I like to learn a complicated idea: clear definitions, small examples, and a path into the larger picture.
Can you draw moving clouds with punctuation?
What turning moving clouds into real text taught me about detail, character shapes, and the difference between a video of letters and letters in a browser.
Can a laptop hear your hand move?
An experiment with speakers, microphones, Doppler shifts, and simulated echoes—and what still needs checking before sound becomes a reliable gesture control.
Can a model find the part worth watching?
What video-ranking experiments taught me: overconfident scores, story geometry that did not help, and why the waiting might belong to the moment.
Leaving room to look
A museum visit, too much to see, and the case for giving one interesting thing more time.
One ingredient, a different moment
A kitchen note about adding yogurt to curry—and the next question it raised.
The stars in this photograph
An attempt to identify stars in my Milky Way photo using star detection and catalog matching, with a guide to plate solving and an interactive sky map.
Can you do arithmetic with words?
Explore word embeddings and word-vector arithmetic with an interactive illustrative calculator, worked analogies, and research on learned representations.