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
Todd Sundsted

pothole deep enough to fall into on delancy and allen

Todd Sundsted

another great office game night!

Todd Sundsted

the best writing about artificial intelligence on the web

https://distill.pub/

Todd Sundsted

the challenge of last-mile logistics in a city like NYC

Todd Sundsted

dear god, someone sent me a username/password in an email!

I can’t decide if the problem here is humans, ancient email technology, or something else...

Todd Sundsted

our new kickstarter came this week - el dorado.

superficially i thought it looked like catan, but other than the existence of resources it doesn’t play like catan at all.

enjoying it!

Todd Sundsted

Bill Dally - Scaling of Machine Learning - ScaledML 2018

excellent dive into deep learning hardware, GPUs (obviously), lower precision weights, trained quantization of weights, pruning of neurons and weights...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3QKvUPg_AI

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researching the history of artificial intelligence via magazines and newspapers... side tracked by the old hardware in the advertisements...

Todd Sundsted

the kaggle crew need to run a competition to identify and remove blog spam: http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/11/01/deep-learning-how-i-did-it-merck-1st-place-interview/