PinnedFirst tests of 3D printed Lieberkühn reflectorsOriginally published at https://thescinder.com/2014/03/25/first-tests-of-3d-printed-lieberkuhn-reflectors/ on March 25, 2014.Mar 25, 2014Mar 25, 2014
Published inthe ScinderThe Fitness HypothesisOriginally published at http://thescinder.com/2021/07/12/the-fitness-hypothesis/ on July 12, 2021.Jul 12, 20211Jul 12, 20211
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Published inthe ScinderWhat Good is a GPT-3?As the world teeters on the cusp of real progress in understanding intelligence, and real utility in artificial intelligence, a quote from…Jul 28, 2020Jul 28, 2020
Published inthe Scinder3 Ideas for Dealing with the Consequences of Overpopulation (from Science Fiction)Despite overpopulation being a taboo topic these days, population pressure was a mainstream concern as recently as the latter half of the…Jul 11, 2020Jul 11, 2020
Published inthe ScinderRendering Deepmind’s Predicted Protein Structures for Novel Coronavirus 2019 (Stereo Anaglyphs)I visualized predicted protein structures from the novel 2019 coronavirus. The structures are the latest from Deepmind’s AlphaFold, the…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Published inthe ScinderRendering Deepmind’s Predicted Protein Structures for Novel Coronavirus 2019I visualized predicted protein structures from the novel 2019 coronavirus. The structures are the latest from Deepmind’s AlphaFold, the…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Treating TensorFlow APIs Like a Genetics Experiment to Investigate MLP Performance VariationsI built two six-layer MLPs at different levels of abstraction: a lower-level MLP using explicit matrix multiplication and activation, and…Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018
Published inthe ScinderAssessing Autoencoder Outputs with WaveletsReplacing an image segmentation workflow using classical computer vision tools with a fully convolutional neural network is pretty easy…Jun 22, 2018Jun 22, 2018
Published inthe ScinderIntroducing Ceph-O-VisionI’ve been interested in cephalopod vision ever since I learned that, despite their superb appreciation for chroma (as evidenced by their…Oct 10, 2017Oct 10, 2017