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anti-hype. i paint and do computer vision research for satellite image datasets
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- it happened: I've finally lived in oregon long enough that i've become a "nutritional yeast on popcorn" kind of person
- Now that i’ve blocked twitter and reddit on my laptop and deleted the apps (plus ig/bsky) (haven't blocked bsky on my computer since i still find the culture here pretty bleh) i'm at the point where i'm opening the Financial Times app every time i want to scroll a 'feed' of 'content'
- chartposting season😗
- i bought a couple old nylon magazines in a fit of mid-2000s-nostalgia (dare i say ‘indie sleaze’) pique and flipped open to this fan letter on the feb 2004 issue
- stanford bunny
- some of my recent oil paintings, which you can look at on my freshly updated portfolio website: zhanpeifang.com
- i booked a work flight to leave 12:40am from pdx next week, which i plan to drive to immediately after the autechre set ends earlier that night.. diva behavior i fear
- just ate a shockingly competent bowl of 螺蛳粉 in Kampala, Uganda
- w6$$up peasants, I finally got off the Rancho Gordo Bean Club waitlist
- virgin tikz vs chad whatever this is
- going to be in nyc from 8/24-27 and 9/18-28ish, for those who'd like to drop by👋
- figs from the tree in my housing co-op’s garden
- in the past 7 days i’ve taken vaccines for: rabies (2 shots), meningococcal ACWY, yellow fever and cholera (last 2 are live virus). basically, what i’m saying is that i’m currently a walking gu jar
- i see that purity ring are also cashing in on the 'low-poly rpg video game y2k nostalgia' trend
- weirdly sophistiqué chart this week
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- RIP Landsat Next, we hardly knew ye
- is it just me or is it that contemporary painting is extremely boring right now lol. last show that left an impression on me was dana lok at miguel abreu around the new year
- is it good that i feel like i'm slowly dying while i've been debugging code for months and while i'm not painting lol. thank god it's almost summer
- thinking about getting into baking panettone purely as a flex
- just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'
- i watched the handmaiden and was kind of surprised at how girlbossy/feel-good it was?
- just discovered some very impressive tikz gore franknielsen.github.io/Divergence/P...
- TJ Clark’s recent essays.. god bless, not all of us are given the privilege of doing our boomer rambling in the London Review of Books
- finally, the first pope who might conceivably know what the de Rham cohomology is😎
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- portland never disappoints
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- it’s actually breathtaking how awful the CVPR website is, given that it’s..you know..a machine learning conference……… and the official CVF website looks like (maybe is?) a wordpress blog
- git push origin bsky
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- Glutton Who Would Not be Satisfied by All the Riches of Heaven
- I'm taking my CS advisor's differential information geometry special-topics seminar this term, this is the textbook we're using for the first half, and I'm just now realizing that the "students" here are almost certainly not referring to undergrads b/c wtf is a submersion😭
- please imagine: Maoist Standard English Clippy
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- it's only a monte carlo technique if it was developed in Monaco (Prinçipatu de Mùnegu), otherwise it's just sparkling random sampling
- just saw a 60-something man (probably a professor) speeding past me on a kick scooter outside the EECS building. never lose your whimsy
- scored a great deal on a NEMO ultralight tent at ebay auction lol. exciting new levels of obnoxiousness about to be unlocked
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- uploading here the two ‘Two Moons studies’ i did a few months ago, oil and acrylic on panel, about the synthetic dataset commonly used in ML research
- went for a walk
- opening VSCode for the first time in over a week<<<<<<<
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- i think it would be in bad taste to joke about ‘grad students are the most persecuted minority on earth’ now but allow me my bit of gallows humor
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- “i don’t want to think of a witty caption, like, ‘this is my painting’”—me to housemate just now, today’s labors
- I still haven’t figured out how to open a can of sardines without spraying olive oil all over myself
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