Max Woolf's Blog

Max Woolf (@minimaxir) is currently a Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco. Some work he’s done for BuzzFeed includes using StyleGAN to create AI-generated fake boyfriends and AI-generated art quizzes, and is currently working on the company’s more advanced AI initiatives.
In his free time, Max creates open source Python and R software on his GitHub and making snarky comments on Twitter and Mastodon.
Max’s projects are funded by his Patreon. If you have found anything on this website helpful, please help contribute!

The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Images

Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!

Modern AI rewards being very weird.

“Function calling” with ChatGPT is ChatGPT’s best feature since ChatGPT.

The best-case scenario is that you annoy the maintainers.

“Made by AI” is now a universal meme to indicate something low quality, and memes can’t easily be killed.