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I research procedural generation.
#procgen #pcg #procedural #generation #generative #ai

Cave pixie. Sufficiently accurate for poetry. There are cats. Call me Geoff.

Lanugages: English, and limited French. Formerly giltay@m.s (2017–22) and giltay@eldritch (2022–23).

I'm okay if people want to interact with me, follow me, or boost my toots.

Avatar description: Avatar description: My face (white person with auburn hair, a beard and glasses). I'm wearing a red flower behind my ear.

Header image description: A macro closeup of a gilt steel pen nib with "№ 42" inscribed on it.

Hacker, dad, husband, musician. Grew up in Australia, living in Alameda, California.

Working on Fuchsia at Google. Preciously worked on: Google WiFi, Google Glass, Rdio, Songbird, Flock, Eazel.

I like making Free Software, gadgets, music, good trouble and future freedom fighters.

lifely horror vacui - he/him/etc

🦑Computer programmer from Pune, India. New OpenBSD and NixOS user.

I like desert-island programming languages like Raku and Common Lisp. At work, I write Clojure.

Long time Emacs user, but can survive in Vim. Learning how to use NeoVim and Helix at the moment.

https://samebchase.com/
https://codesurfers.net/
gemini://test.samebchase.com/

https://github.com/samebchase

#ComputerScience instructor at Wellesley College who researches #games & #AI (he/him; cis). Current #research is on exploration in #Metroidvania games. I build #PCG demos like:

https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/labyrinfinite/

and games like:

https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/chlorophyll/

The intertwining problems of racism, ablism, queermisia (including specifically transmisia), sexism, classism, capitalism, and colonialism must be opposed everywhere.

Profile picture: colored lines converging along different paths on a square grid.

tfr

like the rest of them but cuter. embarrassed but growing

no nob0t because it must be opt in

if i unfollowed you and you're at least vaguely queer please feel free to ask why. the follower management UI is bad and it might've been accidental!

"minors dni" dni (unless you would like to discuss the merits of "minors dni" with me ; otherwise, i'm blocking for this retroactively)

anti-javascript • “eyes bluer than gold water” • picrew by (insta)dorucci_art

i gugle

i'm trans. i'm a pencil pusher. i'm mentally ill. and i'm armed.

Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?'

― Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"

email: vidak@riseup.net
location: boorloo, whadjuk noongar boodjah.
age: 1991.
operating system: GNU Guix, with EXWM.
political convictions: anarchist-communist.
computer languages: common lisp, elisp, assembly language.

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permacomputing
solar punk
social ecology
non-coercive only
dialectical materialism

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https://write.as/vidak
https://sr.ht/~vidak

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i am writing version 3 of an elisp tamagotchi. i have a newsletter, and i pay for a subscription to write.as. i am currently obsessed with 70s doctor who.

permanently suffering from bit rot

I'm a father of two cool kids, husband to a most incredible woman and human servant to three cats and a dog. I work as a Business Analyst in Denver. On my spare time I like tinkering with electronics and computers, playing D&D, reading and philosophy