American stories

Two stories a century apart explore the immigrant experience.

2023-05-15 · 11 min · Frank Hecker

Art is a community not a commodity

Much art is important to you to the extent that you know the people making it.

2023-04-12 · 2 min · Frank Hecker

The algorithms behind the recommendations

And where to learn more about them.

2023-03-22 · 2 min · Frank Hecker

Initial thoughts on GPT-4

What I learned about the latest AI hype.

2023-03-15 · 5 min · Frank Hecker

That Typo of Girl

I look back on when I self-published a book about a yuri manga.

2023-03-13 · 12 min · Frank Hecker

(Almost) all politics is local

If you want to effect political change, try working in your own backyard..

2023-03-11 · 7 min · Frank Hecker

I fought the power law and the power law won

My thoughts on the sources of inequality on Patreon and elsewhere.

2023-02-26 · 14 min · Frank Hecker

The end of GAP

I summarize my final thoughts on GAP: The Series.

2023-02-20 · 5 min · Frank Hecker

Logarithms are just orders of magnitude with a glow up, part 2

I continue to try to explain logarithms to myself.

2023-02-12 · 7 min · Frank Hecker

Logarithms are just orders of magnitude with a glow up, part 1

I try to explain to myself how logarithms work.

2023-02-11 · 11 min · Frank Hecker