bonkerfield
a place to put lots of things
Viewfoil: Experimenting with Radical Transparency — I've been contemplating privacy and anonymity, and speculating on what those ideas will mean in the future of our society. During conversations with my friends and family, I've started questioning whether maintaining strengthened privacy is
Modeling whether an outbreak of COVID-19 virus will hit San Francisco — Epistemic status: To be clear, this is a highly simplified model and should not be used to insight panic or to instill a false sense of security. Please enjoy with a healthy level of skeptical
Combining GPT-2 and BERT to make a fake person — GPT-2 is a deep learning model that is able to generate astonishingly coherent English text. It was released last year, and everyone’s mind was blown into histrionic hyperbole, including mine. Its creators at OpenAI were
Visualizing the Bonkerfield — For the past few weeks, I've been trying to figure out how to visually describe a philosophical concept that I've come up with called a bonkerfield. It's something I find fascinating, but quite hard to
QMB Prototype Demo — Lately, I've been having too much fun, working on quantum randomness generators. One of my goals is to build a minimalist device for producing a quantum binary outcome. I've designed one simple and cost-effective circuit
Short Post on Short Showers — I finally was able to reduce my flying this year to just two flights to visit family for the holidays. My partner still points out that I take long showers so I should get off
Quantum Multiverse Bifurcator Installation — For the past few months, I've been working on a series of interconnected projects and thought experiments centered around the concept of the quantum multiverse, a theoretical interpretation of quantum mechanics that implies that many
Green Wall Irrigation — Last winter, my friend and I set out to build a sort of "green wall" in his back yard. It was a very fun project, and the building and planting turned out to be quite
Quantum Coin Flip Device — Over the past few months, I've been working on building tools to connect human decisions with the outcomes of quantum measurements. The goal is to allow people to let their decisions be chosen using the
Quantum Multiverse Bifurcator — Update: by some mind-blowing coincidence the theme of next year's Burning Man happens to be the Multiverse! Note that what follows was all written before the theme was announced. My partner and I went to
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