Kieran Healy

@kjhealy
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A complete transformer neural network implemented entirely in HyperTalk, trained on a Macintosh SE/30.

https://github.com/SeanFDZ/macmind

Yesterday’s fun activity was writing a package to make cartograms like this. I am also open to lavish VC funding to develop an excessively complex German-style board game based on this layout, modeled on e.g. “Escape from New York”, “Warriors”, or perhaps “My Dinner with Andre”.

New Tom 7 video just dropped, so things aren’t entirely awful (though they are indeed mostly awful). Everyone should watch all of Tom 7’s videos; they are excellent in fundamentally improper ways.

https://youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk

No one can force me to have a secure website!!!

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RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2026-April/481617.html

@siracusa @atpfm Correct use of “the mainland” spotted in this street atlas (John Tauranac, “Manhattan Block by Block”, 2005) that I picked up at a used bookstore over the weekend.
I just watched Gremlins 2 for the first time since 1990. The entire film is built around a dim, vain, tasteless New York developer named Daniel Clamp, his sprawling Clamp Building and his gimcrack Clamp Empire, which includes TV stations, his inane self-aggrandizing books, and a line of jams and jellies. At the end he falls for a character named Marla. This has been a remark about how the meaning of a work of art is not something fixed or under the control of its creators.
Everything is fine over there