Hi, my name's Axel Magnuson. I've worked in tech for most of my life (mostly machine learning), and I dabble in video games and programming languages in my spare time. This is my personal site and blog, where I write about anything that crosses my mind. If you want to chat, the best way to reach me is via email. Don't hesitate - I'm nice.

Contact

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• axelmagn@gmail.com

Extracurriculars

• 2024 Bevy Spooky Jam
• axelmagn.itch.io
  • Stonehold: Your trusty sword has been shattered. Stonehold is a mini-dungeon crawl where the enemies cannot be killed. You'll have to find another way to defeat them.
  • Bevystein: A shooter made with Bevy in the style of classic Wolfenstein. (incomplete)
• Content Warning: The Thinking Machine with Axel Magnuson: A guest spot I did for my good friend Wally's podcast discussing some of the recent hype and fears surrounding AI.

Publications

• Writing in the Margins: Better Inference Pattern for Long Context Retrieval
  • TL;DR: you can improve content retrieval on existing LLMs by generating intermediate data during KV cache prefilling.
• Evaluation of Topic Models for Content-Based Popularity Prediction on Social Microblogs
  • This was my Master's thesis. TL;DR: Latent Dirichlet Allocation is bad at predicting popularity (which is really unsurprising in retrospect), and I have the numbers to prove it.

Recent Posts

• 2024-12-22 - Creative Mesocycles
  A methodology for planning creative work