I just launched my latest project: Matthew Explains (matthewexplains.com), a subscription video service dedicated to exploring research results in artificial intelligence, computer science, and other subjects. Readers of this Web site will probably also find that one interest...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
For a long time I've wanted to have a thing for resuming interrupted ssh sessions. The typical scenario is that I connect to a server with ssh, start a long-running task, and leave the window open so I can watch it. Then something causes the connection to break. Maybe I los...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
This is a card game I invented. It's a fast-paced game of tactics and shifting power, for four players, played with a standard deck of cards. As card games are classified, it's a plain-trick evasion game, with the main innovations being an unusual rule for how tricks are tak...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
LaTeXで文書を書いてなら、時々すべてに体裁を指せたいです。 たとえば僕の仕事で、アナログシンサーのマニュアルを書いて、いつも同じの体裁が欲しいです。 LaTeXのデフォルトは普通過ぎます。 個性的...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
There are a number of directions from which we can look at current developments in deep neural networks and the issues I raised in my streamed comments on pirate AI. Here's a summary of the implications I see from the perspective of the Unix philosophy.| Ansuz - mskala's home page
I've been thinking a lot recently about the current developments in deep neural network generative models, and how they implicate free software issues. I went into a lot of this stuff in my July 25 Twitch stream, and although I'd also like to write up some of my thoughts in a...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
The rules of Lotto 6/49 are about to change in a way that I think is pretty significant. It's drastic enough that I think we might well say Lotto 6/49 is coming to an end, being replaced by a new game that is not even properly a lotto game anymore and only happens to reuse th...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
As of Summer 2024, my article "What Colour are your bits?" has been online 20 years, and people are still linking to it as a benchmark. It's clear that people still care about intellectual property in general and copyright in particular, and the difference, if any, between id...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
We have a patient suffering kidney failure; he's in a lot of pain and the disease will soon kill him. He could be saved - if someone would donate a kidney to be transplanted into this patient's body. So, as a matter of ethics, somebody ought to do that, right? But who, exa...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
There's an idea in neuroscience that the brain maintains what is basically a 3D model of the body - the "body schema" - and that when we use tools, they become part of that schema. Claimed evidence for this concept includes studies where people were asked to perform a task wi...| Ansuz - mskala's home page
Today is the Queen's Plate, a horse race here in Toronto that is considered a big enough deal to be reported in the general news media, and it had me thinking about a peculiarity of horse racing: the qualifications to enter a race are usually backward compared to human sports...| Ansuz - mskala's home page