My thoughts about certain topics provoked by readings or discussions..
The right to be forgotten only makes sense in a world where forgetting is the default and remembering is the exception.
A 2015 Makeblock laser, dead since 2017 — brittle plastic reprinted, a custom protocol reverse-engineered, and a GRBL board wired, calibrated, and engraving.
Small local Ollama-based RAG systems, started small to test the concept...
A case study on the ethical implications of data usage in AI development. Five witnesses called. Five questions, one each. None of them human...
Filed during Data Ethics Week, on the case of three compound terms claiming descent from older, harder-won disciplines.
A filter meant to catch spam ends up filtering for community membership instead — and a genuine offer to anyone stuck the way I was.
Fine-tuned XTTS using Russian as a Bulgarian stand-in — the result sounded like a real, historically-isolated dialect, entirely by accident.
A small project to revive my old Makeblock laser cutter.
LuaLaTeX for linguists and computational researchers. One narrative tutorial. Written in 2026 for a student who just inherited a decade of stale advice from the internet.