Ocassional Notes
02. November 2021
Non-negative matrix factorization is a fast technique for generating embeddings from a dataset. More concretely, given a matrix you can decompose it into two matrices that are approximattely multiplicands of the matrix. I.e. given matrix M, it finds matrices A and B such that M ≈ AB.
01. November 2021
The 100 emoji is iconic; it’s a symbol recognized across cultures and it has a semiotic impact globally. In a world where most societies have standardized around a base-10 (or decimal) number system, a doubly-underlined 100 is a shining beacon of success, or total mastery. The forthright and striking symbol of flawless execution, total knowledge, and success lends itself naturally, in this remix culture we live in, to imitations. If 100 can be thus underlined, can we convey the same messages by borrowing the style of the emoji but with different content? Of course we can, that’s what cultures do.
01. September 2020
I’ve been messing about with blender a bit since the pandemic started. I originally thought I could use it for visualizing data, which is certainly true, but I’ve found more that I’ve been getting in blender-world. I was watching a “coding adevntures” video over the weekend where the author described using fibonacci spheres as a way of evenly distibuting points on a sphere. But I couldn’t find an easy way to do this in blender.