blog – Good Enough Lab

Pieces of music

In the twenty-odd years I took music craft really seriously, I considered it practicing if I had a stack of pieces with which I was working toward some technical goals…

Dr Charles T. Gray, Datapunk

Hard is Easy, and Easy is Hard

Consulting on a question about real-world data—choosing the correct statistical approach for a problem—is unquestionably a challenging conceptual task.

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If Shrimp, Then Towel (extended scientific cosplay edition)

When I meet people in Denmark, they invariably say,

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If Shrimp, Then Towel

When I meet people in Denmark, they invariably say,

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The Categorical Descent of Loss in Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art

Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art is a katabasis (a hero’s descent into the underworld) tracing loss.

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Governance of Workflows

No matter how advanced the tooling is, mathematicians solve conceptual problems at the blackboard. Why?

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Button - slides and blog vis standardisation

My code is a mess, I have several scripts, I have different visualisations themed differently. Deployment is failing in multiple ways.

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The Countable Cave of Language

“Not everything that counts can be counted.”
But some things can. That’s the point here.

Dr Charles T. Gray, Mooncake (Smorange Category Theory)

The Cave Paradox of Language Models

My Hebrew teacher tells me a convergence in language study is shifting to seeing that humans use language to shape thought, and the intentional and untentional feedback that…

Dr Charles T. Gray, Datapunk, Mooncake (Measured)

Structured Intelligence Governance: Formal Definitions & The Repeated Login Problem

Mooncake and I had a deep conversation today about finitely-generated rulesets and paths; this is another instance of me righting the LLM. I had to guide it back on track to…

Dr Charles T. Gray, Datapunk, Mooncake (Measured)

My phone notifications are breaking the first law - generative

Worked in my notebook from definitions, also discussed Mooncake. Here’s working solution. It’s taking shape; applying it will help me refine the definitions.

Dr Charles T. Gray, Datapunk, Mooncake (Measured)

A singularity of button

The graph investigated yeseterday’s post laid out the expectation, and I intended this post to be starting to bring in the other data:

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A singularity of button

So, where to start with the button problem?

Dr Charles T. Gray, Datapunk