Nathan Douglas
Hi, I'm Nate, or Nathan, Nug Doug, Nug Diddy, whatever.
I'm really interested in myself, so I've decided to create a website devoted to me. I'll read or program or whatever, and then I'll write about it on here. Look on my works, ye mighty, and close the tab.
Although I should know better, you can find me on social media:
If you're interested in hiring me, here's some professional information:
Recent Posts
- McLuhan (EN)
- Pancake People (EN)
- Phaedrus (EN)
- LLMs and Decay (EN)
- Chiron (EN)
Recent Reading
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr: Carr's exploration of how the internet and digital technologies are affecting our cognition, attention, and memory.
- The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli: Machiavelli's classic treatise on political power and statecraft.
- In Praise of Shadows, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki: Tanizaki's essay on Japanese aesthetics and the beauty of darkness and shadow.
- Why Don't We Learn From History?, B. H. Liddell Hart: Liddell Hart's examination of why nations and leaders repeatedly fail to learn from past mistakes.
- The Book of Tea, Kakuzō Okakura: Okakura's meditation on the Japanese tea ceremony and its connection to art and philosophy.
Recent Ideas
- Can we do machine learning with a neural network that has multiple depths? e.g. a 30-layer network that also has pathways that will skip multiple layers? Thinking about this as an analogue of focused vs. diffuse thinking.