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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Teaching a Neural Network to Play Captains Mode, Part 9: The Race
Last time I was beaten by a lookup table and promised to race it properly. I ran the race. The model loses the first half and wins the second half, and the exact place where it takes the lead turns out to be the whole answer.
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Teaching a Neural Network to Play Captains Mode, Part 8: Outperformed by a Lookup Table
Six experiments in a row did nothing. So I stopped running experiments and spent a week trying to find the flaw in my own work instead. I found it on the third day, and then I found four more.
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Teaching a Neural Network to Play Captains Mode, Part 7: The Answer Key
My model gave me a piece of draft advice so good that I immediately stopped believing it. This is the post where I build something that can tell me whether advice is any good -- and then find out that half of what I was proud of was memorization.
Poetry
Short poems, mostly about places.
Close Readings
Line-by-line attention to songs, poems, and papers.
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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.