a corn kernel's contemplations

  I tattooed fake skin for the first time since I started tattooing. I'm only 15-ish tattoos in, but  it's crazy how much you learn in a richer, more complete environment. The skin gives feedback to the machine, your clients muscle twitches, and your own hand shaking under the bright ring light. I can't imagine executing art in a better way. There's a robotics Sim2Real gap, and it's in tattooing as well.  A brief delve into sim2real RL In a situation where real, actual, live data is unavilable, we resort to the next best thing: simulation. Physics simulations for roboticists, and simulation skin for tattooers. Fake skin is an uphill battle in tattooing honestly. It's the worst of the both worlds, but a necessary evil. Honestly I think looking back, much of my fake skin work was not that useful, but I also don't think I could have done without it. I wonder what the current SoTA is for bridging the sim2real gap using few-shot reinforcement learning is. Unsure....

  I think I spent a long time hesitant to write because I was afraid of it being cringe for myself to read back, but I also know there will one day be myself reminiscing on how naiive i currently am, so alas, we are back to creating. You can never quite win with art, it's never as good as you'd like.  I kinda miss exploring my own inner psyche, but this time maybe I won't completely self isolate and uhhh strike a balance whoaa! I come back this time equipped with more confidence in my own ideas, and a focus on drawing what speaks to me. Listening to what the world has to tell me instead of forcing an idea onto it. We'll see how long it lasts. MACRO: I'm submitting a paper!! finally!! wow um it's definitely not as monumental as I thought it would be, but uhhh \o///. Tattooing is SO fun and SO rewarding, but need to find more inspo for drawing designs lol (think about decorating human body more instead).  Excited for the summer over all! Going to be hopefully fill...