Hello, my name is Kojin.
I am currently a Software Engineer at Dymium, building tools for the Dark Forest.
Publications
A little while ago, I was a researcher and tinkerer at CTEC @ MIIS, and I work primarily with social data related to extremist groups.
- June '23: From Ideas to Action: Yevgeniy Prigozhin, Wagner Group, and the Operationalization of Duginism
- March '23: The Wagner Group’s Social Footprint: A Time-Series Sentiment Analysis of PMC World
- March '23: The Changing Face of the Wagner Group: From Military Adventurism to Venture Capitalism
Thoughts
The Hollowcene
A peculiar hollowness has settled over our collective experience, a phenomenon that I would...
The Intentional Toolmaker
In the grand tradition of design philosophies, from the Unix credo to the Bauhaus...
DeepSeek and Monopoly Economics
When a model makes headlines like this, the media’s “Breaking News” tunnel vision often...
Audience: The Currency of Technology
The “technology” company is an unfortunate misnomer for what a tech company really is:...
Open Source vs Open Weights: The AI Transparency Paradox
<!--in progress--> <!--_Read my complete thoughts, [here](/static/pdf/open-source-vs-open-weights-full.pdf)_--> When Meta released their Llama 3.1...