Unlike any sane person who gets a PhD in NLP right now, afterwards I made a game. I just released it in early access Talk to NPCs who talk back at you, try to persuade your way out of sticky situations

Been musing on this a bit, here's a blog post with examples I've collected so far. More suggestions welcome!.

An emergent skill of mastering any craft—using software, cooking, even playing a game—is knowing what's actually important. An expert builds a precise workflow using a tiny fraction of the available control plane. At a deeper level, they know on which aspects to focus, and which

Here’s the link. Try the free demo if you’re still undecided!. "I've never played a game that had me dying laughing like that!" — real unsolicited feedback (!).

Hello, last chance for 50% off Talk to Me Human! Early access ($4.99) — which includes the complete game — is ending. I’m releasing the full version soon on Steam and web, and the price will bump to $9.99.

a bit more here: thanks to @universeinanegg for helpful discussions on this like ~5 years ago.

The most cursed word in talking about research is “interesting.”. If someone says “X would be interesting,” they probably mean “X hasn’t been done before” and that X is one of:. - just something they cooked up, it may not even be worth pursuing research-wise.- a fun application.

I want Samin Nosrat to write a follow up called bitter dank umami sweet.

ye olde oversized spinning conical gradient

unabashedly into my new 404 page

I’m pleased to announce the release of Weatherspread, a web app for visualizing recent weather and tourism data!. I built this app with friends Tristan and Shelby to aid in planning travel and events. Usually you plan things far enough out (say, 3-6 months) that there’s no

complete blog post is now live! more tips, and reframed into 2-step process: (1) get accepted by page 1, (2) avoid rejection with the rest. download both PDFs too. linked in next.

works in footnotes too. yes this is probably overall a bad idea

Exciting to zero people but me, I randomly tried putting an image in a sidenote and it JUST WORKED. if it hadn't I would have assumed no quantity of toil would have fixed it

first time in my life i've ever actually anticipated a javascript library release.

compare vs slop from the day before "Hit Indie ggame" :-(

four gpt-4o redesigns of my game, in styles "beautiful" / "stylized" / "cell-shaded" / "cyberpunk." it's like having an amazing but stochastic concept artist. it makes the need for *art direction* so obvious — by allowing any style, what choices do you make to achieve a vision?

Córdoba, Spain (8/100)