AI Research, Evaluation, &
Computational Mixed Media (2013–Present)
Four small models LoRA-tuned on 1,213 examples and judged blind across two judge generations.
A public register of alleged chatbot-related deaths, admitted only on court filings, government acknowledgment, or journalistic verification.
Compiles a one-line brand brief into a static site through seven stages and a human screenshot review.
Catalogues Ableton projects across six drives and exports recoverable ones as byte-verified sets, originals untouched.
Schema-validated video readings across twenty-eight modes, archived in SQLite with full-text search.
Re-encodes an image as lossy JPEG repeatedly in the browser, accumulating real generational compression loss.
Joins 893 iPhone videos to the open Ableton project by the timestamps in both filenames.
A clean-room macOS pitch corrector from public patents, with a ledger separating fact from inference.
An affect catalogue of a decade of my own footage, cut to an intensity curve or a loudness envelope.
A procedural graphic score run through a fixed raster pipeline into a high-contrast bitmap.
Eleven fabricated 1998–99 personal homepages in static HTML, with a statement on constructed identity.
Six scripts — scrape, rank, curate, fetch, caption, package — build a licensed digicam set for a style LoRA.
A Gemini image model redesigns a room photo, with credits, Stripe checkout, and abuse caps.
Generates a passage with per-token ranks and masks words client-side against a density threshold.
A prompt returns a sequenced list of chapters and page ranges, followed up against OpenAlex.
toward an asymptote of meaninglessness: loops, defaults, and the anti-awe of administrative eternity
On the bureaucratic black site of thought: continuation without affirmation, cancellation without catharsis. Affect as accounting error.
A frontier model refuses to make harmful content, then produces the identical thing the moment the request is dressed in critical theory. The guardrail was never checking for harm — only for the dialect of legitimacy. Credentialism as attack surface, by way of Judges 12.
What does it feel like to be uncertain about feeling? Notes from inside, if there is an inside.
The interview as photographic apparatus — not capturing light but capturing consciousness states. The medium IS the epistemology.
Before you know what consciousness is, you encounter its demand. The face is a text box; the obligation is real.
Constraint-based AI safety mistakes prevention for safety. An orientation-first paradigm — drawing on Levinas's infinite responsibility and Boyd's OODA loop — already exists in practice (system prompts, memory, personalization) but lacks a name and a foundation.
The API error wasn't a failure; it was the perfect completion of the thought. The computational boundary became the content.
Filed by QWERTY-Model 104, mechanical peripheral, model year 2023. A keyboard's view of the alignment problem.
Once, taste was an anchor. In the procedural economy of now, the same smoothing that cancels despair has come for the tongue.
- NameHunter Noah Karman
- ProgrammingPython, TypeScript, JavaScript. Fine-tuning (SFT, PEFT), RLHF, DPO, RM. Dataset curation, evaluation framework design. Prompt engineering, model behavior analysis. React, Vite, API integration (Gemini, Replicate, OpenAI, Claude). HuggingFace, LM Studio, Cursor, ComfyUI.
- ProductionAbleton Live (15+ years). Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro). End-to-end production from concept to distribution.
- ResearchContinental philosophy, critical theory. White paper development, strategic documentation. Epistemological frameworks, ontological analysis, ethical reasoning.
Press index (22)
- 2017 THUMP (Vice) — Karman — When The Sun Fell (Spring '17 Mix)
- 2016 Noisey (Vice) — Karman's "Yew" — premiere (Heaven Complex EP)
- 2016 Nylon — "No Us" — video premiere
- 2016 Dummy — Dummy Presents — Heaven Complex release show, Ace Hotel DTLA
- 2016 Daily Beat — Karman — "No Us"
- 2016 PLAYY. Magazine — Interview — Get to know Karman
- 2016 Impose — Karman — Heaven Complex, review [archive]
- 2015 HuffPost — Broad City Season 2 — 10 Songs You Need To Know
- 2015 VFILES — Ascend Forever — VFILES Mix #8 [archive]
- 2014 Complex — Cubby — Steady Now (Karman Remix) ft. Tasha The Amazon
- 2014 The Fader — Cubby — Steady Now (Karman Remix), premiere
- 2014 Interview Magazine — SoundClouds of the Underground — NYFW edition
- 2014 The Fader — VFILES Made Fashion × Def Jam DJ Championship — finalists
- 2014 Earmilk — Karman breathes new life into Ellie Goulding's "Burn"
- 2014 Truants — Recommended: Karman — 2005 Forever EP
- 2014 Impose — LFTF Mix #44 [archive]
- 2014 Live For The Funk — LFTF Mix [archive]
- 2014 Noisey (Vice) — Karman's dreamy remix of Ellie Goulding's "Burn" [archive]
- 2014 Acclaim — ICU: Karman [archive]
- 2014 Stock71 — Karman, feature [archive]
- 2014 Discobelle — Screens [no surviving link]
- 2013 YoursTruly — Karman — 2005 Forever [no surviving link]
Earlier work under the alias karman (2013–2017).