website/blog/about.md

title	description	internal	slug
About Me	osmarks	true	me

::: epigraph attribution="Djoric" Reality does not bow to expectations. Expectations merely mask what is. This is what it is. :::

I'm osmarks, also known as gollark in some places. I enjoy bending the world to my will and creating confusing and/or funny things through applied computer science and mathematics, among other things. You can contact me through email, Discord, IRC sometimes, Morse code transmitted via HTTP request volumes, carrier pigeon, or ActivityPub (Mastodon).

My work

• Meme Search Engine, probably still the world's most powerful meme search engine due to lack of credible competitors. Now with automatic harvesting pipeline and scoring model!
• 4D Tic-Tac-Toe, one of the somewhat difficult games in the world.
• Untitled Objection Series, a metafictional work about decision theory, Solomonoff induction and #off-topic.
• osmarkscalculator, an esolang and/or computer algebra system based on string rewriting.
• Advancing Consensus: Automated Persuasion Networks for Public Belief Enhancement, a groundbreaking work on large-scale opinion improvement. Won the SIGBOVIK 2024 award for "Most Frighteningly Like Real Research".
• This website, with its many esoteric capabilities and content.
• The infrastructure backing it, which remains oddly reliable despite its considerable complexity.
• PotatOS, an advanced operating system for ComputerCraft with a capability-based sandboxing model, powerful multitasking, reliable automatic updates and "Copilot" capabilities substantially predating Windows's.
• OnStat, a lightweight(ish) status page I use here.
• Minoteaur 8, the world's most osmarks-designed, Minoteaur-like note-taking application.
• Project LIMINAL OCTOTHORPE, a slightly functional AI agent implementation for internet-based forecasting.
• A lot of code for miscellaneous control/monitoring/automation tasks in Minecraft.
• Many other short scripts accessible to the public.

Skills

• Programming in all cool languages (Python, JavaScript somewhat resentfully, Rust, Lua, Nim, Haskell).
• Programming in several uncool languages (C, Java), but only ironically.
• Vague knowledge of contemporary machine learning frameworks and algorithms.
• Expert knowledge of ComputerCraft (Minecraft mod).
• Rapid prototyping (accursed hacks very fast).
• (Arch) Linux (btw) systems administration.
• Mechanical keyboard.
• Causing inscrutable networking problems.
• Bench press: 77.5kg (5RM).
• Nigh-omniscient knowledge of and concern for English grammar.