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Arrival Movie

Last edited: June 6, 2026

Require: analyze movie + quote [story + bellows]

ineffability of language vs. Sapire-Wolf

Foreignizing Time in Heptopod B

Louise’s ability to re-express her temporally-independent thoughts in English after learning Heptopod B represents a successful act foreignization of Heptopod thought for an English L1 audience despite this audience’s supposed limitations in understanding temporally-independent concepts according to the Sapir-Wholf Hypothesis.

Heptopod B does not have temporality

  • RUSSIAN SCIENTIST: “Their final words translate to, “There is no time, many become one.” I fear we have all been given weapons because we answered the timeline wrong, please, if you - -”
  • “Explain it by saying that light minimized the time needed to travel to its destination, and one saw the world as the heptapods saw it.”

So it seems like quintessential Sapir-Wholf: time hard to express with Heptopod, and so their way of thinking work around it.

CudaTile

Last edited: June 6, 2026

CUTile is when NVIDIA wants to build a cute compiler too!

Takes a single thread, tile based abstraction, and maps it to different hardware; memory ands threads automatically managed.

DementiaBank Acoustics Project

Last edited: June 6, 2026

The DementiaBank Acoustics Project is a working title for an acoustic-only challenge for AD detection. This document serves as the lab notebook for this project.

This project will attempt to replicate some of the results of Wang 2019 and Martinc 2021, but focusing on minimizing human involvement; we will first work on raw transcript classification with ERNIE (cutting all CHAT annotations), then introduce pause-encoding in a manner similar to Yuan 2021 which is automated by MFA. Goal is to replicate the results of Yuan 2021/or even Martinc 2021 in a completely automated manner.

Divide by 2pi

Last edited: June 6, 2026

Divide by \(2\pi\), or, how I learned to start worrying and hate Fourier Transforms.

Hello all. Good news first: our frequency theory is now correctly validated by data.

If you want a band-aid for the answer, here it is: divide everything we get out of the cantilever equations by \(2\pi\); then, use the correct linear mass density: our Google sheets was off by a factor of almost \(4\) because of later-corrected apparent measurement error.