About.
Who's running this thing, and what it is.
Hey! I'm Real Limoges. Software engineer by title; what I actually do all day is design machine learning systems.
This site is where I think out loud. I'm drawn to emergent things, the way a handful of simple rules pile up into something nobody put there on purpose: color, moods, flocks of birds. A lot of what's here started as a question I couldn't stop poking at.
I think about code the way you'd think about lego: a small set of pieces that snap together into something bigger than any one of them. Mine are unconventional pieces: WASM, Haskell, Elixir.
Two things in particular shape what I build here. I'm colorblind, which is why there's a whole chapter trying to pin down what color even is. And I have bipolar disorder; the mood journal is four years of my own nightly data, turned into something I can finally stand back and look at.
Sharing all of it is more fun than keeping it to myself. Glad you stopped by.
- Real
What's here
Mood
My mood journal
Four years of nightly self-ratings, fuzzy-clustered into states and laid out as a visual essay.
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Color
A chapter on color
What color actually is, written by someone who sees less of it than you do.
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Menagerie
Math playgrounds
Self-contained toys: boids, sandpiles, quantum walks, fuzzy logic. Drag the sliders and watch what happens.
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Lab
Statistical experiments
Small pieces, each one going after a single thing about a model: GAMs, Bayesian demos.
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Clouds
Pixel-art clouds
A quiet one. Worley noise drifting across a canvas, no knobs to turn.
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Elsewhere
- Code lives on GitHub .
- This page is one corner of realcomplex.systems , a small family of services that talk to each other.
Colophon
Built with Phoenix and Elixir, LiveView for the interactive bits, D3 for the dataviz, and a few WASM and Haskell services doing the heavier lifting. The lego blocks, basically.