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evan
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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
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Trying to cram 9 buttons, 2 pots, 8 leds, 8 resistors, 2 ICs, and an OLED display on a Pi HAT proto board
November 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Adolf Loos describing planned obsolescence in 1908 is a good reminder that there's nothing new under the sun.
'A consumer who has a piece of furniture that he finds unbearable after only ten years, and is therefore forced to buy new furniture every ten years, is better than one who only buys an object when the old one has become unusable through wear. Industry needs it. Millions are kept in employment by the rapid turnover!' This seems to be the secret of the Austrian economy, because how often do we hear, at the outbreak of a fire, the words: 'Thank God, now the people have something to do
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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!
A Raspberry Pi single board computer with a small speaker is connected to a breadboard with some jumper wires. The breadboard has an OLED display on it showing an audio waveform.
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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this george grosz painting hasn't left my mind since I saw it at the hirshhorn museum a few months ago
george grosz painting titled "painter of the hole", 1947. a skinny, wild-eyed husk of a painter is working in the ruins of his studio, attempting to paint a hole on a canvas perched on his easel. he is surrounded by failed attempts to paint the hole.
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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still not going to post
September 17, 2024 at 8:50 PM