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AI/ML researcher working with on-device audio, speech, and language models. occasionally exploring the intersection of code, ML, and design.

ece phd @ ut austin, 2024
cs bs @ unm, 2017

github.com/evmaki
Adolf Loos describing planned obsolescence in 1908 is a good reminder that there's nothing new under the sun.
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Porting MusicGen models to ONNX, quantizing, and running them on a Pi 4 to build a generative sampler/groovebox. MusicGen runs 7x faster in my barebones ONNX implementation than in transformers!
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
AI begets a 21st century Dadaism; it shows you the form of familiar things, but they flow into one another in a situationless manner, devoid of context.

AI researchers would call this a "world model". Right now AI can approximate the distribution of the form, but has no model of the function.
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
One of those rare things that tempts you to dust off the VR headset
This is rather cool, it's an endless procedurally generated museum based on Wikipedia. Nice to wander round, particularly in VR. Spent a good while in the surprisingly vast hall of soup earlier.

https://mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-all-things
Museum of All Things by Maya Claire
An infinite virtual museum generated from wikipedia
mayeclair.itch.io
June 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
cool project: www.flowstate.cc lets you filter your feeds based on the types of content you do/don't want to see. e.g., no public freakouts, no rage bait. tools like this could help people regain agency over their digital experiences
Flowstate
Building web experiences to reverse mindless scrolling /
www.flowstate.cc
May 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
students using AI on assignments; teachers using AI to grade them. sending emails written by AI, so recipients can respond with AI. building an app with AI; deploying it to be used by AI agents. the implication is that we have no interest in doing anything. what are we freeing our time up for?
May 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
this george grosz painting hasn't left my mind since I saw it at the hirshhorn museum a few months ago
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
still not going to post
September 17, 2024 at 8:50 PM
opening up the computer in the morning, seeing all my tabs and windows and Documents from the day prior—it’s like coming home to a happy family. Each file is like an old friend. And nothing beats hanging out with your friends 😃
October 13, 2023 at 2:55 PM
beginning to realize i enjoy cable management more than using the things the cables are connected to
September 21, 2023 at 4:17 PM
attaching a 12x scope to my iphone and targeting a food truck QR code from 300 yards away
September 13, 2023 at 2:27 PM