About.

Hey! I'm Real Limoges. Software engineer on paper; what I actually do all day is design machine learning systems.

This is where the things I can't stop poking at end up. A lot of them turn out to be emergent, a handful of dumb rules run enough times until something shows up that nobody put there on purpose (a flock, a sandpile avalanche), which I didn't plan; it just keeps happening.

I think about code like lego, small pieces that snap together into something bigger than any of them. The pieces here are a little odd: Elixir holding everything together, and C and Rust compiled to WASM doing the math right in your browser. The fuzzy logic and the mood math used to be Haskell, two small libraries (Hazy and Ish) running as their own services that the site called over HTTP; they've since been folded into the Elixir side. (The bricks on this page build themselves up and knock themselves down forever, if you wanted a picture of it.)

Two things about me show up a lot. I'm colorblind, which is how I ended up writing a whole chapter on what color even is. And I'm bipolar; the mood journal is me rating my own nights, every night for four years, because a doctor told me to.

Anyway, it's more fun out here than in a notebook. Poke at whatever you like.

- Real