Alex Towell
queelius.bsky.social
Alex Towell
@queelius.bsky.social
cancer survivor, hobby jogger
The Long Echo Toolkit

Your bookmarks, conversations, and books deserve better than 'hope the cloud doesn't disappear.' Three Python CLIs with SQLite storage, reading queues, and export formats your grandkids can read.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2025-12-16-long-echo-toolkit/
The Long Echo Toolkit
Your bookmarks, conversations, and books deserve better than 'hope the cloud doesn't disappear.' Three Python CLIs with SQLite storage, reading queues, and export formats your grandkids can read.
metafunctor.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Crier: Cross-Post Your Content Everywhere

Crier is a CLI tool for cross-posting content to dev.to, Ghost, WordPress, Bluesky, Mastodon, and more. Now available on PyPI.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2025-12-16-crier/
Crier: Cross-Post Your Content Everywhere
Crier is a CLI tool for cross-posting content to dev.to, Ghost, WordPress, Bluesky, Mastodon, and more. Now available on PyPI.
metafunctor.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
CTK: Manage All Your AI Conversations in One Place

A plugin-based system for managing AI conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and more. Import, search, and export in a unified tree format.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2025-10-ctk/
CTK: Manage All Your AI Conversations in One Place
A plugin-based system for managing AI conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and more. Import, search, and export in a unified tree format.
metafunctor.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
hypothesize: My R Package for Hypothesis Testing is Now on CRAN

A consistent API for hypothesis testing in R, including Likelihood Ratio and Wald tests.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2025-12-12-hypothesize-cran/
hypothesize: My R Package for Hypothesis Testing is Now on CRAN
A consistent API for hypothesis testing in R, including Likelihood Ratio and Wald tests.
metafunctor.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
symlik: Symbolic Likelihood Models in Python

Define statistical models symbolically and automatically derive score functions, Hessians, and Fisher information.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2025-12-16-symlik/
symlik: Symbolic Likelihood Models in Python
Define statistical models symbolically and automatically derive score functions, Hessians, and Fisher information.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Rerum: A Pattern Matching and Term Rewriting Library for Python

A Python library for symbolic computation with a readable DSL, powerful pattern matching, and security-conscious architecture.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2025-12-16-rerum/
Rerum: A Pattern Matching and Term Rewriting Library for Python
A Python library for symbolic computation with a readable DSL, powerful pattern matching, and security-conscious architecture.
metafunctor.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
repoindex: Give Claude Code Awareness of Your Entire Repository Collection

A metadata index that lets LLM tools like Claude Code query across all your git repositories.

https://metafunctor.com/post/2025-12-16-repoindex/
repoindex: Give Claude Code Awareness of Your Entire Repository Collection
A metadata index that lets LLM tools like Claude Code query across all your git repositories.
metafunctor.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Orientation Under Pressure — notes on maintaining a vector under entropy

On chemo cycles, stoicism's hidden cost, Arendt's "banality of evil" in modern workflows, and the privilege of creation.

The metric isn't titles. It's whether direction survived collapse.

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Orientation Under Pressure: Notes on a Life Lived Deliberately
On maintaining orientation under entropy, creating artifacts as resistance, and the quiet privilege of having any space at all to think beyond survival.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Alex Towell
Hidden states in LLM ~ follow normal distributions. Consequently, both queries and keys also follow a normal distribution and if you replace all queries and keys by their average counterpart, this magically explains the slash pattern observed in attention matrices
November 20, 2024 at 10:06 AM