Aaron Steven White
@aaronstevenwhite.io
computational semanticist. into modular synths and cocktails. http://aaronstevenwhite.io
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Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
Super excited to talk about @chive.pub at #ATScience!
We’re excited to announce that @aaronstevenwhite.io will join us in Vancouver at #ATScience to present @chive.pub - a new project for decentralized preprints with ATProto 🚀
Check out the launch thread for more details:
Check out the launch thread for more details:
Chive is a decentralized eprint service built on AT Protocol.
Here's what it does and a bit on its design.
Here's what it does and a bit on its design.
January 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Super excited to talk about @chive.pub at #ATScience!
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I'm wrapping my mind around Wikipedia's 25th birthday. It means they started it before the launch of Internet Explorer 6 and the creation of JSON. The collective force they were able to organize with the technology of that time should give us wild hope about the crazy things people are starting now.
January 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I'm wrapping my mind around Wikipedia's 25th birthday. It means they started it before the launch of Internet Explorer 6 and the creation of JSON. The collective force they were able to organize with the technology of that time should give us wild hope about the crazy things people are starting now.
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Chive is a decentralized eprint service built on AT Protocol.
Here's what it does and a bit on its design.
Here's what it does and a bit on its design.
January 12, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Chive is a decentralized eprint service built on AT Protocol.
Here's what it does and a bit on its design.
Here's what it does and a bit on its design.
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Chive alpha applications are now live at chive.pub!
Chive | Decentralized Eprint Service
Decentralized eprints on ATProto.
chive.pub
January 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Chive alpha applications are now live at chive.pub!
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You’ve build a probabilistic model and, for a small data set, computed posterior inferences with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Everything works great and, flush with confidence, you throw the model against all of your data only for everything to go to hell....
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 AM
You’ve build a probabilistic model and, for a small data set, computed posterior inferences with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Everything works great and, flush with confidence, you throw the model against all of your data only for everything to go to hell....
Kicking around JHU for the next couple weeks and, man, I miss Baltimore.
January 6, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Kicking around JHU for the next couple weeks and, man, I miss Baltimore.
Wild how 2016 was like 4 years ago.
January 4, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Wild how 2016 was like 4 years ago.
Ordered this when it came out. Been waiting for the physical copy to listen to it. Was away when it arrived and just got cracked it open. Transcendent. horselords.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys...
FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field, by Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt
4 track album
horselords.bandcamp.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Ordered this when it came out. Been waiting for the physical copy to listen to it. Was away when it arrived and just got cracked it open. Transcendent. horselords.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys...
Taught my five-year-old how to detect and address phase anticorrelation using a vectorscope. His ambient mixes are going to be so lush.
December 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Taught my five-year-old how to detect and address phase anticorrelation using a vectorscope. His ambient mixes are going to be so lush.
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It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.
December 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.
This generic is so bizarre.
“Rotators bring with them the ethos and world view of academia, and it takes them a while to understand the views of whoever is in the White House,” [Dan Reed] says. “Career staff are more attuned to those priorities.”
“Rotators bring with them the ethos and world view of academia, and it takes them a while to understand the views of whoever is in the White House,” [Dan Reed] says. “Career staff are more attuned to those priorities.”
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This generic is so bizarre.
“Rotators bring with them the ethos and world view of academia, and it takes them a while to understand the views of whoever is in the White House,” [Dan Reed] says. “Career staff are more attuned to those priorities.”
“Rotators bring with them the ethos and world view of academia, and it takes them a while to understand the views of whoever is in the White House,” [Dan Reed] says. “Career staff are more attuned to those priorities.”
If you're submitting to SALT, note that the deadline is UTC, *not* AoE.
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you're submitting to SALT, note that the deadline is UTC, *not* AoE.
Also check out the probabilistic dynamic semantics codebase, which contains implementations of the analyses in this paper that compile down to stan code! github.com/probabilisti...
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Also check out the probabilistic dynamic semantics codebase, which contains implementations of the analyses in this paper that compile down to stan code! github.com/probabilisti...
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New blog post: "If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?" stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
New blog post: "If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?" stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
The new Carrier album is so good.
Carrier - Rhythm Immortal. Bleep.
Buy Rhythm Immortal by Carrier on Bleep.
bleep.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The new Carrier album is so good.
Love teaching stats because I can write a 10-page document explaining to students my custom hierarchical IRT model for curving exams and justify the time spent as instructional material development (which it is!).
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Love teaching stats because I can write a 10-page document explaining to students my custom hierarchical IRT model for curving exams and justify the time spent as instructional material development (which it is!).
back on my bullshit
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
back on my bullshit
This new Arp album is a *wild* pivot from the previous one (New Pleasures).
November 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This new Arp album is a *wild* pivot from the previous one (New Pleasures).
My son wore a Josh Allen jersey his grandfather gave him to school. (Rochester is deep Bills country.) We got multiple “Go Bills!” greetings that day. Meanwhile, the only sport we watch in our household is women’s soccer (NWSL). Like, my son was baffled when we told him men play pro soccer too.
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My son wore a Josh Allen jersey his grandfather gave him to school. (Rochester is deep Bills country.) We got multiple “Go Bills!” greetings that day. Meanwhile, the only sport we watch in our household is women’s soccer (NWSL). Like, my son was baffled when we told him men play pro soccer too.
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lets talk about "In context learning". it is clearly NOT "learning", because its ephemeral. It IS some form of generalization from examples, which is very cool. but we need a name. how do we call this skill of generalization from example?
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
lets talk about "In context learning". it is clearly NOT "learning", because its ephemeral. It IS some form of generalization from examples, which is very cool. but we need a name. how do we call this skill of generalization from example?