Articles
Tell Me a Story
As a product of evolution, we humans are cognitively endowed with the ability to make sense of nature. Yet, we are a pre-historic being in a post-modern world. So how do we make sense of everything? Well, among other things, we tell stories.
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Philosophy
Forgetting to Remember
The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve describes the way humans retain knowledge. Learning is, in a way, just a process of continually not forgetting things.
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Aesthetics
Game Over: Learning From Failure In Videogames
Thinking through the contingencies of failure for an interaction is an exercise of empathy with the user. Whether in videogames or more traditional UIs, framing development in a mindset of failure allows you to get in the head of the typical user and design accordingly.
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Programming
さようなら 日本、G’Day Austin
Today, I officially joined the Gowalla team. I’ll be leaving the Land of the Rising Sun for the Lone Star State; trading ramen for ribs, karaoke for concerts, and utter linguistic befuddlement for…well, maybe I’ll hold onto that one.
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Linguistics
Computational / Poetry Thesis Blog Post / Stanza 三: Haiku
A wise man once said, that if you train an n-gram model with too much data, it will hurt. Bad. We’re talking Kurzweilian singularity ➡ grey goo ➡ ??? ➡ profit! kind of hurt. That’s the way I’ve felt over the last month or so, thinking about my thesis; there were so many directions I could go in, so many theoretically intriguing and clever avenues to venture.
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