Epiktistes

Epiktistes is my home in the Fediverse. It is an instance of Ktistec, a single-user ActivityPub server like Mastodon, but with fewer users and fewer commits. Here's my introduction (last updated early-2025).

I wrote a series of posts about optimizing the performance of the Ktistec server, its build time, and its executable size: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5.

Some things I regularly write about, organized by hashtag:

I also wrote some #pointfreeverse.

Todd Sundsted

http://norvig.com/cacm-hybrid.html

"Google's Hybrid Approach to Research" - Spector, Norvig, Petrov

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finally getting around to reading "Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning". you'd assume, given how I spent my youth, it would have happened earlier...

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i just love these interactive overviews/presentations of recent research

https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/

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plan for today: stir pot, organize resulting chaos, hack hack hack, nap, write, study... (kidding about the nap)

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`stack build` is pronounced "stack set your laptop on fire"

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a loaf of bread 
a jug of wine 
a typeclass 
and thou

#pointfreeverse

Todd Sundsted
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i wonder how long until someone designs a cryptocurrency to run on one of these machine learning chips...?

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IBM explains how much faster their machine learning solution is (apparently to kindergarteners)...

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what does this even mean...?