Mostly, knitting soothes me. I find it relaxing and comforting to pick up my needles and just . . . knit. But there's one thing that undermines the benefits of knitting for me: Fear of running out of yarn! Often when I'm knitting something "big" . . . like sweater-big . . . I cross [...]| Dancing at the Edge
I am . . . usually and generally . . . a knit-one-thing-at-a-time kind of knitter. That approach serves me well. I might be slow, and I might be boring, but . . . I get things finished. Right now though? YIKES! I have so many things on| Dancing at the Edge
Long, long ago . . . back in the early 70s, when I was in junior high school, I taught myself to crochet from an article in Good Housekeeping magazine. I was determined. There were lots of pictures. And I caught on pretty quickly. At the time,| Dancing at the Edge
Behold! Progress! As you can see in the photo above, I am cranking here . . . on the second woolly man-sweater sleeve. There is not much to see here, really. Except inches of sleeve. With more inches to go. But I am seeing the light at the| Dancing at the Edge
The knitting update is quick and straightforward. I've got one finished man-sweater back. And one finished man-sweater front. And one nearly finished (just a couple of rows and a cast off to go) baby sweater back. (And finishing the baby sweater back has me doing a little re-think on| Dancing at the Edge
Last January, I started making an art journal, which was inspired by a Fodder School lesson (December's, I think). I had no idea at the time, but this project ended up being JUST what I needed . . . when I needed it most. Although I always| Dancing at the Edge
Figure 1 We can build automata from neural nets. And they seem to do weird things, like learn languages, in a predictable way, which is wildly at odds with our traditional understanding of the difficulty of the task (Paging Doctor Chomsky). How can we analyse NNs in terms of computational complexity? What are the useful results in this domain? Related: grammatical inference, memory machines, overparameterization, NN compression, learning automata, NN at scale, explainability… 1 Computation...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Making Things is officially out in the world! Huge and continued thanks to everyone who has bought the book, championed the project, and generally been encouraging of me and of Rose as we’ve made this massive book! Your support means more than we can say! As we continue to celebrate this book, Rose and I have so many events and workshops planned and we’d love to see you! Here’s the current list if you’d like to see—we’ll be adding more details as we get them! Upcoming Events: MASS...| Reading My Tea Leaves – Slow, simple, sustainable living.
Rose and I made a book. It has a cover! And a cover means that you can now pre-order MAKING THINGS: Finding Use, Meaning, and Satisfaction in Crafting Everyday Objects. Yes! The book comes out in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia on May 7, 2024, but right this very minute you can place an order and if you fill out our fancy form, we’ll send a little pressie that you can print and turn into a ZINE to put under the tree, or into a stocking, or offer to whichever family member has sacrifice...| Reading My Tea Leaves – Slow, simple, sustainable living.
