16x Faster Icospheres with AI-Assisted Optimization
I built a fast icosphere generator that avoids the usual recursive halving. Then Claude helped me squeeze out a 6-16x speedup without changing the algorithm.
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Trust Will Define the AI Era
We can measure AI productivity. We have no idea how to measure the trust it erodes.
I Got Banned for Writing My Own Story
A subreddit moderator banned me for a post I wrote myself. The experience changed how I think about authorship.
What Is Your Most Valuable Asset?
A question asked in a bright meeting room at DTU that only gets harder with time.
Strange Attractors Revisited
Revisiting my 2017 strange attractor renderer, now with new attractor types, color modes, and a gallery of animated GIFs generated with Claude Code.
Agent-Rendered Infrastructure: The End of Unnecessary Servers
AI agents that regenerate and deploy artifacts on demand can collapse entire runtime stacks, and the economics are forcing the transition.
Dictate and Ship
The gap between having an idea and publishing it has collapsed.
When P-values Hit the Floor: Handling Astronomically Small Statistics in QQ Plots
How fastqq had to confront the limits of floating-point arithmetic when meta-analysis p-values underflow to zero, and the log-space fix that makes extreme signals visible again.
Guest Lecture at Reykjavik University's Executive MBA
I gave a guest lecture in the Data Analytics for Management course at Reykjavik University's Executive MBA programme.
Back to Blogging: AI is Moving Fast
Restarting the blog after a long break, with a new focus on modern AI developments.
Variant in a Taste Receptor Locus Tied to Changes in the Use of Insomnia Medication
A new first-author paper in Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science links a taste receptor variant to switching away from zopiclone, a result that is directly actionable in the clinic.
The Role of BMI in Disease Risk
Our new paper in Nature Communications uses genetics to show that BMI itself, not just factors correlated with it, drives risk for a wide range of diseases.
fastqq R package
How I built and published fastqq, an R package that speeds up quantile-quantile plot generation by 80x using C++.
Speculations on 2021
Speculating on how 2021 might unfold as COVID vaccines roll out globally, looking at herd immunity strategies and distribution.
Simplifying blog
A brief update on moving back to Iceland, starting at deCODE genetics, and simplifying the blog setup.
emplace_back vs push_back
A practical look at the difference between emplace_back and push_back in C++, and when you should actually use each.
Eating Less vs Fad? Diets
Tracking a weight loss journey after a serious knee injury: comparing calorie restriction vs Huel over several months, with data.
Leaving Academia
Reflecting on the decision to leave academia after completing my PhD, and what I'm looking for next.
Part 2: Deep Learning with Closures in R
Part two: completing the MLP in R with backpropagation and stochastic gradient descent, and visualising what the network learns.
Part 1: Deep Learning with Closures in R
Part one of a series on implementing a neural network from scratch in R, using closures and functional programming.
Visualizing Strange Attractors
Rendering animated Clifford strange attractors using C++ and OpenGL, and turning them into looping GIFs.
Got some new books!
A quick post about some new books on R and machine learning I was excited to get into.
First Post!
Introducing the blog: a place to write about things I learn, set up with blogdown and Hugo.