Exposure to poor people weakens support for redistribution among the rich. Kolmogorov-Arnold networks. While MLPs have fixed activation functions on nodes (“neurons”), KANs have learnable activation functions on edges (“weights”). KANs...

The last month, April 2024, has been a sobering time of calling friends, reaching out, networking, and generally trying to find some space and some security. While not all of my endeavours were successful, with the help of a friend, was...

By my rough estimation, I spent maybe one weekend at home in the last couple of months. But even though I felt pretty tired, I talked the missus into spending yet another weekend in Frankfurt. The offer to visit Wiesbaden sealed the...

I'm nearing wrapping up drafting Move Slowly and Build Bridges, my book about the fediverse. I do several things in the book: provide some history, show the struggles of instance admins, talk about the politics of blocklists.

I spoke at Front-end Design Conf in St. Petersburg, Florida, and it was great!

Day 29 of NaPoWriMo. My poem A quatrain, from a Poetizer prompt. Ghost parade Ghost parade in the night Seeking souls with which to unite On the streets, marching through Trying to find a host to use Featured poem A poem by another...

Found this painting and found hints of an interesting backstory.

upcoming conferenece intervention, Forum for Artistic Research, Austria ||| In June 2024 I have been invited to present work about experimental forms of artistic collaboration, with work from four projects included as artworks, visual...