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February 5, 2025
Building Heideggerian AI
LLM benchmarks and the stubborn persistence of rationalism
June 28, 2024
Experience and its Enemies
Notes from the ruins of psychopharmacology
May 31, 2023
"You can touch your music"
An analysis of physical sales on Bandcamp
June 6, 2022
The Gamer and the Nihilist
An analysis of Product Hunt, 2014 - 2021
September 23, 2021
The New Pornographers
An analysis of consumer tech review media
February 24, 2023
The GDPR ransomware attack on Components
An attack on our MongoDB ends with another lesson in tech journalists failing at everything they try.
September 6, 2022
Standardizing category tags with K-Nearest Neighbors
Comparing text across different tech media channels.
March 23, 2021
The Chaos Bazaar
An analysis of Bandcamp sales, 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2020
July 2, 2022
How much money do people make on Bandcamp?
Looking at the site's income distribution.
March 8, 2022
On Epic's acquisition of Bandcamp
Reflecting on the upsides of a transaction that may seem to have none.
December 16, 2020
The Map and the Category
Mapping the genre tags of 1 million items on Bandcamp
August 4, 2020
Affect as a Service
A GPT-2 generator trained on the Artforum archive
July 4, 2020
Building a Pitchfork text generator with GPT-2
A step-by-step guide.
April 13, 2020
Faucets of Despair
An analysis of critic and user reviews of film and television, with A.S. Hamrah
November 11, 2019
The Center of the Center
An analysis of think tank citations in American publications
October 1, 2019
Every Story is an Epstein Story
An analysis of 218,000 PornHub videos from 2008 to 2018, with Stoya
October 20, 2022
What content did Pornhub remove?
An analysis of what's missing from the platform.
July 24, 2019
Phantom Threads
A measurement of media mentions of Mueller probe personalities in 18,000 cable news transcripts
April 1, 2019
Pedagogy of the Press
An analysis of the New York Times and its staff, with Barrett Brown
May 30, 2019
Objects of Desire
An analysis of r/TheRedPill, r/Braincels, and 4chan/pol, with Edgar Yau.
April 8, 2019
It Goes On
An analysis of album length using Spotify and Billboard 200 data, with an essay by Liz Pelly.
February 8, 2019
Scored and Arranged
An analysis of 20,783 Pitchfork reviews, with Nick Scavo
January 18, 2019
The Production of "Space"
An analysis of 204,000 news articles and essays, and of the occurrence of "bodies" and "spaces" on Google Scholar