Fasting Wrapped 2025
January 01, 2026
Blog
December 2025 (1 posts)
November 2025 (2 posts)
kidcost calculator
November 25, 2025
how much does it cost to raise a kid? interactive calculator for estimating child-rearing costs across different scenarios and locations.
karaoke party
November 15, 2025
real-time karaoke party system with audience voting, musician view with tabs/chords, and display mode. built for house parties.
September 2025 (1 posts)
July 2025 (2 posts)
offline
July 31, 2025
resume
July 15, 2025
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
hi zane.
tbh i havent had a resume since my junior year internship (2019); i went to straight into grad school and then got wine’d and dined into a job at L’Oreal’s research lab. I q…
June 2025 (2 posts)
the unbearable bandwidth of being
June 30, 2025
All media are extensions of some human faculty. The wheel is an extension of the foot. The book is an extension of the eye. The extension of any one sense reshapes how we live — and how we think.
— Marshall McLuhan
your brain processes 10 trillion bits per second. you output 39. the interface …
plant stack
June 25, 2025
Current rotation of plants.
| Common Name | Image | Latin Name | Light | Watering Frequency | Soil Type | Humidity …
May 2025 (3 posts)
change means opportunity IV: solutions
May 25, 2025
solutions
i dont know what the solutions are. they will emerge over time. nothing is certain from the onset. Bell, Lee and Zuck couldn’t have fathomed what their innovations would become. I wont pretend to.
But, I want to.
So I’m decided t…
change means opportunity III: where to next
May 11, 2025
where to next?
ok so the economic model of the internet is broken. #genz yay 🙄
the incentives of publishers are no longer to produce high quality content, unless they want to [game the algorithm](https://vincentwi.com/blog/futur…
S2ST Survey & History
May 10, 2025
End-to-End Speech Translation Progress
Data
| Corpus | Direction …
April 2025 (3 posts)
change means opportunity II: why now
April 27, 2025
why now
It was a symbiotic relationship. Google benefited from being on THE place to find information. Users benefited by quickly finding what they needed. Websites and content creators benefited with larger audiences, focused and happy users, and a clear-cut path toward success. We all got wha…
change means opportunity I
April 09, 2025
my goal with this (now 125+ page!) schpeel was to say that the economic covenant of the internet is breaking. we’re witnessi…
change means opportunity
April 09, 2025
my goal with this (now 125+ page!) schpeel was to say that the economic covenant of the internet is breaking. we’re witnessi…
March 2025 (3 posts)
what i'm consuming
March 28, 2025
Music
startups
March 13, 2025
the way u do startups is fundamentally flawed. heres what i’ve learrned to try to not make the same mistakes.
the Product Development process goes as follows:
- Decide u wanna single-handedly change the world bc ur special like that
- Have a prophetic vision of some sci-fi future …
modern fascism
March 01, 2025
We’re seeing the subtle infiltration of fascist id…
February 2025 (1 posts)
January 2025 (4 posts)
cooties
January 21, 2025
When did i get cooties?
supposedly 70% of america has cooties - aka oral herpes ak…
quotes and things i think about
January 10, 2025
The best you can do is (to) try your best
“Care what other people think and you will always be their prisoner” - Lao Tzu
“I’ve had a l...
wait y not just have agi learn the way we do
January 03, 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) are traditionally trained by randomly sampling data blocks from massive datasets. However, this way to learn is probably dumb af.
Humans don’t learn effectively by randomly reviewing information -> LLMs might benefit from a more structured approach too.
You may…
hello
January 01, 2025
world $!$
Older (6 posts)
the know all: Ramifications
April 09, 2022
The Know All - Ramifications
Pivotal pioneers and inflection points
T&GR: pg20
Where does the original music come from?
- Natural rhythm of heartbeat (Ooga Chaka)
- What about the euphoric /stank face?
The invention of time: clocks, dials, adoption
The defiance of darkness: whale lamps, 💡
Ja…
the know all: Wisdom
March 22, 2022
The Know All - Wisdom
Wisdom skills (and meaning making maturity) involve the application of cognitive or reasoning capacities to the domains of human life
Attributes:
* critical thinking;
* creativity,
* self-understanding,
* abstract reasoning,
* social/emotional/communication skills,
* cur…
ML epistemics
February 10, 2021
Vincent W thoughts
What is the point of ML? What is it learning? Based on a fixed set of training data, learn to predict the label of unseen test data. They learn this by assuming this information is in a vacuum and nothing outside (unpredictable) can arise. Example: we assess data on bubblegum pla…
old dead white dudes
February 25, 2020
Philosophy is full of irrelevant old dead white dudes. They’re all just conservative white males who write to further the ideological aims of a repressive Anglo-hegemony. Anything they say should be disregarded because they were so far removed from the societies they lived in and/or the contemporary…
humanism
August 21, 2019
OK so basically the year is bumblefuck middle age crusade shit and the catholic church has a cuckhold white knuckle grip on the nut sack of every living being bc of like Augustine’s philosophies from the 4th century. Tldr they’re the reason why catholicism is everywhere and the Bible is written in l…
the know all: Philosophy
August 04, 2019
The Know All: Philosophy
Pre-Socratic Philosophers
Thales of Miletus (c. 624/623 – c. 548/545 BC)
<img src=”https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Illustrerad_Verldshistoria_band_I_Ill_107.jpg”
alt=”Thales of Miletus”
class=”float-right max-w-xs ml-4 mb-4 rounded-…