evan king

We did this in my lab in grad school with GPT 3.5 and Phi 4 (anyone remember Phi?) but 10 million agents has more sizzle to it for sure

That t-SNE of the different Bluesky communities making the rounds is pretty cool, but so is this live 3D visualization of the firehose. Guess I missed it the first time around? Kinda relaxing to lean back and let it wash over you @theo.io firehose3d.theo.io

Finishing up evals for the new Moonshine v2 speech-to-text models we're rolling out, and it's... exciting. We're right there with NVIDIA pushing the accuracy frontier while doing it with much smaller models, a team of < 10 engineers, and microscopic GPU spend.

Had a great time chatting career trajectories, on-device AI, and model specialization versus generalization with @petewarden.bsky.social on the @eetimes.bsky.social Silicon Grapevine podcast youtu.be/XbSQtaZ_QM0?...

Excited to start sharing more about the Mirage, a generative groovebox sampler I've been developing these past few months. It uses tiny, on-device generative audio models and a voice interface (powered by Moonshine models) to create new sounds on the fly.

This is a positive thing as far as the historical record is concerned. It will preserve the names and likenesses of people that were brave enough to stand up for their community.

Work in tech often rewards thinking only in abstractions, which makes it easy to miss downstream impacts once your projects are shipped out the door. Building stronger ethical literacy feels increasingly important.

Another strong case against the idea that everything AI should be cloud-connected. The privacy liability vanishes when you do it on-device, at the edge.

It’s easy to forget that global political powers have been engaged in continuous information warfare for 10+ years. Many mistake the radical and disgusting takes they see online for what “real” people think. Even among real people online there is a selection bias – normal people don’t post all day.

I rarely wade into politics, but: Pretti was a model American and, importantly, a model of healthy masculinity. He protected and healed others, was in touch with nature and animals. He was executed by a federal government driven by toxic masculinity: cowardly, shameless, and self-obsessed.

Now that everyone is walking around saying "it's not X, it's Y", it's obvious that AI speak has been internalized by the culture

Going from Rev 1 (left, mid December) to Rev 2 (right, mid January) of my hardware project took some long nights and a lot of soldering, but it’s really coming together.

Feeling a sense of relief when the AI coding output is garbage; it’s a good heuristic for the novelty of the work. But using the AI to do today’s novel work will create training data for the next model iteration 🤔

Keyswitch and LED circuit coming together for a step sequencer. Using a dedicated PWM driver IC for controllable brightness gives much better results than my first attempt (bitbanging a constant current LED driver in software)

Realized something recently: MX-style keyboard switches are great general-purpose buttons. You can experiment with different 3d printed keycaps, and they're super tactile. I just wish they were a little easier to breadboard.

Having fun building the UI for my generative sampler project. These tiny OLED displays are pretty expressive for their size

Trying to cram 9 buttons, 2 pots, 8 leds, 8 resistors, 2 ICs, and an OLED display on a Pi HAT proto board

Adolf Loos describing planned obsolescence in 1908 is a good reminder that there's nothing new under the sun.

AI begets a 21st century Dadaism; it shows you the form of familiar things, but they flow into one another in a situationless manner, devoid of context. AI researchers would call this a "world model". Right now AI can approximate the distribution of the form, but has no model of the function.

One of those rare things that tempts you to dust off the VR headset

students using AI on assignments; teachers using AI to grade them. sending emails written by AI, so recipients can respond with AI. building an app with AI; deploying it to be used by AI agents. the implication is that we have no interest in doing anything. what are we freeing our time up for?

this george grosz painting hasn't left my mind since I saw it at the hirshhorn museum a few months ago

still not going to post

opening up the computer in the morning, seeing all my tabs and windows and Documents from the day prior—it’s like coming home to a happy family. Each file is like an old friend. And nothing beats hanging out with your friends 😃

beginning to realize i enjoy cable management more than using the things the cables are connected to

attaching a 12x scope to my iphone and targeting a food truck QR code from 300 yards away