Evolutionary computation, machine learning, data-intensive computing, programming languages, personal knowledge management, photography, and miscellaneous notes.

I created a Bluesky account a while back. I was curious about the differences between ActivityPub and ATProto. Mastodon has been a bit of a slow burner, but in the last two weeks, lots of old evolutionary computing friends have shown up in Bluesky. Still not sure what I’ll post. Will I crosspost to the increasing number of networks? Will bridges like skybridge enable better experiences across all? I guess we’ll learn soon. ...

A few days ago I run into Carin Meier post titled Vector Symbolic Architectures in Clojure. Beside this point that I can really relate to […] I don’t have a lot of free time. When I do get a few precious hours to do some coding just for me, I want it it to be small enough for me to fire up and play with it in a REPL on my local laptop and get a result back in under two minutes. […] ...

I was curious, so I finally created an account. I’m still not sure what is the best server to join, and I’m not going to run my own instance, but I ended with @xllora@mastodon.social.

I have recently been using tools like Athens research and LogSeq for connected note taking (see my previous post). A key thing you may want to check before choosing the one you will use is the lincese of each. As I write these lines Athens is friendlier if you plan to use it for work. LogSeq one, unfortunately, not so much. However if you plant to use it for fun, LogSeq is feature packed, the team keeps delivering and outstanding product, and the new publishing capability is great. ...

Personal knowledge management has been getting popularity as a term in the recent years. However, there has been quite a bit of research across different fields on how to organize, manage and grow your knowledge. The presentation below is a quick intro with some examples. You can download the presentation above as a PDF here.