Karin Valis is a freelance machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for everything occult and weird. Her work focuses mainly on finding conceptual resonances between the latest machine learning technology and the esoteric. She writes Mercurial Minutes and hosts monthly meetings of an online coven Gnostic Technology. She’s currently developing soup, helping her write a book on Esoteric AI Glitched Grimoire (to be published in 2027). In the past decade she developed several occult algorithm prototypes, co-hosted a podcast, co-founded a fake startup, published zines, performed a bunch of noise shows in dingy Berlin basements and designed a tarot deck.