My name is Baeo Maltinsky. I'm based in Berkeley and work on software, machine learning systems, and the occasional research project. Recently that has meant ML systems work at Midjourney and frontend / product engineering at Mercury.

I just made a short film, The Astronomer, as an experiment in codec-optimized animation.

Older projects include work on encrypted messaging, psychopharmacology literature reviews, pre-transformer AI timelines modeling (insufficiently bitter-lesson-pilled in retrospect), and a never-quite-publishable attempt to make sense of herring Fast Repetitive Ticks recorded on the bay.

The name of this website, Countless and Absurd, comes from Hecataeus of Miletus, an early Ionian logographer who complained that Greek stories were too numerous and too ridiculous to leave unexamined. Before Herodotus, this meant trying to impose some order on myth, genealogy, travel reports, and local tradition. I still have a lot of fondness for that kind of work.

The site itself is boring technology on purpose: HTML templates, a little scripting, and a static build process. It has some of the texture of the web stack that I first learned as a kid in the late aughts. React is great! But after years spent inside elaborate frontend applications, I like that this can just be a document with a few affordances. There is more about the machinery in the colophon.

Elsewhere: Twitter (X), LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub.