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Research diaries #21: Open-source generative AI for videos with Comfy
2024-04-07 08:56

As AI is already outperforming many human tasks it can be disruptive for many communities. I think it would be hard to stop or significantly slow down its advancement. AI is defini…

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Espresso diaries #2: bug fixing the ROK
2024-03-09 09:54

I think the Rok is a great espresso machine. There is something very satisfying about pressing down those arms and producing espresso. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmeGagomy7Q…

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Espresso diaries #1: Manual shots
2023-12-26 08:47

Lately I have been into espresso. It is an expensive hobby so I thought I would try to go budget & eco without cutting too much corners on quality. Parts of the espresso making p…

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Research diaries #20: Builing another PC
2023-07-14 09:10

Nowadays I have some projects that require a bit more computation power than usual. So I had the nice opportunity to build a stationary computation horse. My current mindset is tha…

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Research diaries #19: Unequal but not that unequal
2023-07-02 08:30

*A long while back I wrote a post about how unbiased randomness gives rise to extreme inequality. The underlying dynamics is that a few individuals have a lucky streak. This lucky …

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Research diaries #18: About inflation returning to normal levels
2023-04-21 06:08

*In the last year we have experienced extreme rates of inflation as we have an upward pressure on energy and food and a decline in export as a result of Covid and the war in Ukrain…

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Research diaries #17: About sparseness of data and training neural nets
2023-04-09 03:51

Typically a neural net is trained on large amounts of data. It will after training hopefully have good performance on this training set. Specifically, the tools for training a neur…

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Research diaries #16: Reservoir computing, an AI which does not live inside a computer
2023-03-21 13:03

*In this post we will look at a fancy AI called reservoir computing. We will just be looking at the general concept. In a future post I will show you an implementation of this fanc…

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Research diaries #15: Going down rabbit holes
2023-03-11 14:29

In math everything you do has always to be consistent with the rules of logic. But the real goal of math is finding structure inside the logic. Usually finding problems with inter…

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Research diaries #14: An optimization puzzle
2023-02-26 02:19

Occasionally I do some algorithm puzzles. This is quite a fun one from Hackerrank with rubik like features. <center> ![WhatsApp Image 2023-02-26 at 11.14.49.jpg](https://files.pea…

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Research diaries #13: statistical DAGs
2023-02-18 14:29

After the last adventure in statistics another exploration. Today we will be looking at DAGs. <center> ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/mathowl/AJpn61Vqoh2v4Q…

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Research diaries #12: Berkin's paradox and why the worst restaurants are in the most touristy spots
2023-02-11 11:59

Lately I have been delving a bit into statistics. Today we will be looking at a famous paradox about why correlation does not have to imply causation. <center> ![image.png](http…

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Research diaries #11: rearranging sequences, weirdness at infinity
2023-02-06 09:36

At infinity our ordinary intuitive understanding breaks down as the mathematical definition of infinity is very different from what we have in our mind. A good example of this con…

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Research diaries #10: The real line, gaps in the rational numbers and the axiom of completeness
2022-12-05 23:58

Historically mathematics did not start at the true fundamentals. The fundamentals were only completed around the 19th century. All of the work done before that was done with some…

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Research diaries #9: types of convergence
2022-11-26 21:30

A sequence is a list of ordered points. As we progress through a sequence it could be that these points are approximating some point. For example, look at the graph below <cente…

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Research diaries #8: Weakening differentiability
2022-11-15 15:23

*In high school we all learned about how to compute the derivative. Here we will look at what it means for a function to be differentiable and how to weaken it.* A derivative of a…

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Research diaries #7: Regular versus chaotic motion
2022-11-07 19:09

*This post connects to one of my old post on [chaos in the logistic map](https://peakd.com/hive-196387/@mathowl/research-diaries-4-the-beauty-of-chaos). Here we will be looking at …

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Research diaries #6: Parallel in python
2022-11-01 13:30

*I haven't posted in ages. Today a code snippet for running stuff parallel* Python is one of those languages where you can really directly start working on solving your applicatio…

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Inventory management made fun :D
2022-05-28 12:12

https://youtu.be/tV-NXAxYs4Q This game is glorious fun. Best of all, the demo-mechanics feel pretty complete. It is free to play over here https://thejaspel.itch.io/backpack-hero …

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Brofi is alive again ^^
2022-05-03 09:35

I am very much chasing the facts as about a week after the announcement I realized that the Bro-project was revived. <center> ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmPkHufoPvR…

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