I'm Scott. I write about engineering problems I chose to have, publish the occasional verse and chapter, and muse at length about other people's problems.
Blog
Engineering posts about problems I chose to have.
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The Last Piece Was a Table I Wrote by Hand (Dota Drafts, Part 14)
The final role table was hand-authored, because farm outcome wasn't draft intent. The tool shipped as an experiment with an acceptance guard still open - not as a system that had passed every test.
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The Interface Asked Questions My Research Hadn't (Dota Drafts, Part 13)
Building the interface exposed questions the research plan had missed: what does a tie mean, and whose rank bracket should the answer describe? Neither needed a larger model.
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When Game Duration Became a Training Label (Dota Drafts, Part 12)
Weighting outcomes by game duration made a pair-effect statistic more repeatable. Training on the new target made the chosen prediction and ranking measures worse. The gate had tested a narrower property than the one I needed.
Poetry
Short poems, mostly about places.
Close Readings
Line-by-line attention to songs, poems, and papers.
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My Dear Zampanò, Who Did You Lose?
A forensic reading of the documents inside House of Leaves, and the relationship Johnny Truant may be trying to hide.
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Glory of the Snow
A song that keeps checking the empty seat, and a flower that does not wait for winter to finish.