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Eigenvectors as a Representation of Nuance? (Or, How I'm Re-Visiting all of my Freshman Year Math Classes To Explain my Brain) - Pt. 1

One decision that many organizations may be making right now is how to develop a corporate policy about artificial intelligence. Could, perhaps, an eigenvalue be calculated against a matrix of perspectives within an organization, to represent a new form of communicating the nuance and fluid nature o

Being a Pregnant Developer in the Age of AI is Weird

As I'm writing this, I'm wearing a green t-shirt with a giant eyeball over my rapidly growing stomach. It's Halloween, and I've decided to dress up as Mike Wazowski - it feels like I'm all stomach these days, so it

Algorithmic Response Re-projection

I ran a Not-Scientific-Experiment using everyone's favorite liar, Google Bard, to get an example of what "re-projection" for AI responses might look like in a very basic form. While it doesn't showcase the full potential of re-projecting algorithmic responses, it hints at something interesting.

The Metaphor of a Large Memory Model (LMM)

I can understand the appeal of language models. Language - the act and structure of communicating the cognitive processes I undergo on a day to day basis - is observable, whereas memory is not.Over the past several months, I've been working through the development of an architecture that may someday

Resistance to Change is Often a Lack of Clarity

I'm on exchange at London Business School this week to study Strategic Innovation. Today, we covered a lot of ground, starting with why it is challenging for established organizations to truly innovate, as well as the individual thought patterns that challenge us in thinking "outside of the box". An

The Essentialism of Existentialism

I often joke that it is impossible to work on emerging technologies without also adopting the mindset of an existentialist philosopher. Perhaps it is a defense mechanism; a way that I call out into the collective intelligence of human knowledge to find others who question what it means to build our

The Metaverse as a Metaphor for Existentialism

I started reading Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Cafe” last month. I usually have anywhere between 3-6 books that I’m actively reading, on various topics, so that no matter what mood I find myself in, one of them generally appeals. Having recently finished “Good Morning, Destroyer of

Radical Feminism in the Metaverse

We need to do more here. One of my “pandemic hobbies” was rediscovering my love of reading. Over the past two years, I’ve absorbed countless stories - almost entirely non-fiction essays and narratives about queer culture, sexuality, transgender experiences, feminism, anarchy, economics, and existential philosophy - through beautifully crafted words

Motivations for the Metaverse

There are endless motivations for building a metaverse. I won’t speculate on the business use cases; I’m not an analyst. Instead, today, I’m going to speak to my personal motivations for building metaverse technologies, and share a bit about how my history has put me where I

The Metaverse as a Mindset

I woke up this morning thinking about the metaverse. That’s a fairly standard occurrence for me, as someone who has worked on “metaverse” technologies for the past eight years, and I’m working on another conference talk about it at the moment. There’s a lot of discussion about