Mark's Notes

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Mark J. Nelson's notes and essays on AI, programming languages, procedural generation, games research, data, and academia.

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Homepage: https://www.kmjn.org/notes

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Text-to-meowdio models #AI #Audio #MachineLearning
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Sep 29, 2026
Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part III #AI #Programming #Research
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Sep 8, 2026
Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part II #AI #Programming #Research
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Jul 28, 2026
Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part I #AI #Programming #Research
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Apr 30, 2026
Shohei Fujimoto exhibition #Art #Exhibition #Design
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Nov 29, 2025
ASP level generation autoplay #AI #ProceduralGeneration #GameDev
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Nov 23, 2025
ASP level generation examples from our PCG textbook #AI #ProceduralGeneration #GameDev
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Oct 22, 2025
Teaching programming languages #Education #Programming #AI
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Aug 25, 2025
A hallucinated new definition of AI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning
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Mar 20, 2024
This message does not exist #AI #Philosophy #Essays
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Feb 13, 2024
Is ChatGPT a bit unsporting? #AI #Language #Ethics
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Aug 9, 2023
Validation failed for some reasons #AI #Programming #Research
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May 18, 2023
Text-to-image for my inbox #AI #Art #DataViz
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Sep 11, 2022
Operator precedence by textual substitution #Programming #AI #Academia
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May 15, 2022
My research-teaching-service split, 2019-2021 #Academia #Research #Teaching
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Apr 10, 2022
Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata #AI #Data #Academia
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May 5, 2021
Deadlines for 2021 technical games research conferences #GameDev #Research #Academia
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Apr 26, 2021
Converting arbitrary base^exponent to scientific notation #Science #Math #Programming
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Mar 1, 2021
Internships for credit at American University #Academia #Internships #University
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Nov 29, 2020
Years since Republican control of major cities #Politics #Data #History
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Oct 24, 2020
US universities announcing online Fall 2020 #Education #AI #Academia
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Jul 28, 2020
Newsgames of the 2000s #Games #Research #History
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May 19, 2020
Opening for a funded Masters student #Academia #Research #AI
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Apr 1, 2020
Images from Wikidata #Data #AI #OpenData
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Nov 17, 2019
C.A.R. Hoare's distant connection to the C. Hoare & Co private bank #AI #Programming #History
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Jul 9, 2019
DeepMind AlphaStar (Starcraft II bot) roundup #AI #Gaming #DeepMind
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Jan 28, 2019
New city, new job #Personal #Career #LifeUpdate
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Jan 7, 2019
Mistaken machine translations of 'Trump' #AI #MachineLearning #NLP
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Nov 10, 2018
Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit' #AI #Language #Humor
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Nov 1, 2018
Colons in computer-science paper titles #AI #Academia #Research
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Oct 25, 2018
Stamping copyright information onto academic papers #AI #Academia #Copyright
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Jun 21, 2018
Rapid game jams #GameDev #IndieDev #Programming
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May 30, 2018
2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award tallies #NSF #Fellowship #Academia
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Apr 3, 2018
Plain HTML with a few bureaucratic gestures #WebDev #HTML #Design
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Feb 12, 2017
Danish place names, translated by Google #Linguistics #Translation #Culture
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Jan 10, 2017
Weirdly broken wifi access points #Tech #Networking #Troubleshooting
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Sep 13, 2016
How difficult is the GVG-AI competition? #AI #GameDev #Research
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May 5, 2016
Open-access CACM articles #OpenAccess #Academia #Research
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Mar 14, 2016
Search-oriented tools for Unix-style mail #Unix #Email #Tools
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Dec 20, 2015
The 'Tapper' videogame patent #Gaming #Patents #History
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Aug 4, 2015