For Annette
A quirk of the human brain.
Nothing so Freudian, yet hardly too Jung. I've stumbled upon a curious phenomenon. Oh, what shall I call it? Love?
02 / field notes
What's a book.
"To have an idea is so normal as to be undesirable; to cloy for a clear mind. And while to wish for peace should make no woman a fool, to have in your mind that idea which drives your legs and races your heart and makes your eyes water just that harder when you see one you love, is to have an idea in the way you were meant to."
A few areas of current interest, activity, and research.
Abstracting syntax trees
Learning grammars to understand structure
A grammar gives search a space of well-formed statements. The next question is how to judge what those statements mean, and which properties are worth testing.
Semantic classification
Aligning messy taxonomies with neural embeddings
Combining language models with fuzzy string matching pipelines to map high-entropy, real-world data against strict structural standards.
When numerics aren't enough
Solving symbolic problems, numerically, exactly
Numerical continuation can reveal candidate solutions to a polynomial system. Exact recovery and verification need further algebra, and a check that no solutions were missed.
Fragments and working themes from the inspection desk.