Wits & scribbles
thoughts, almost worth reading.
miscellanea I was able to state clearly, and some attempts at the rest. other attempts now include leaflet.
Conjectures & refutations
4 entries-
Essay May 6, 2026 →
The Malleable Agent
Post status: transcript of an actual coding session In plain words: the agent rewrites itself while you watch Writing style: dialogue with (might-be-t...
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Essay Apr 15, 2026 →
Reliable Communication Through a Noisy Channel
Post status: quick throwback through my ancient infotheory lecture notes In plain words: David MacKay taught me about thinking Writing style: curated ...
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Essay Feb 7, 2026 →
The limits of my prompt
Post status: incomplete thinking, workshopping timeboxed writing. In plain words: What technical interviews might look like in a few years. Writing st...
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Essay May 17, 2025 →
Tokens for nothing and your (cognitive) chips for free
Post status: ad-hoc reaction to X post. In plain words: Thinking before doing looks like cheating. Writing style: GPT-curated blockquotes, then margin...
Marginalia & symposia
46 entries- Agents of artJul 2026
- Conformal Classification of Neural NetworksOct 2021
- Back to Square One: Artifact Detection, Training and Commonsense Disentanglement in the Winograd SchemaOct 2021
- Probing Emergent Semantics in Predictive Agents via Question AnsweringOct 2021
- KG-based world modelsOct 2021
- Learning salon: Kimberly StachenfeldAug 2021
- Learning salon: Jane WangAug 2021
- Simple Few-Shot Learning with Language ModelsJul 2021
- Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractionsJun 2021
- Learning Salon: Recap & DiscussionJun 2021
- Reward is enoughJun 2021
- Making Sense of Sensory Input; Apperception codeJun 2021
- Learning salon: Zenna TavaresMay 2021
- Ideas about a new programming language for gamesMay 2021
- Are Convolutional NNs or Transformers more like Human Vision?May 2021
- Flexible modulation of sequence generation in the entorhinal–hippocampal systemMay 2021
- Studying and promptsApr 2021
- Storing episodic memory: place and grid cellsApr 2021
- Learning Salon: Simon KornblithApr 2021
- MuZeroMar 2021
Artifacts & experiments
2 pieces- Acquired BookshelfAll the per-episode books
- Complex SystemsDemo the in-browser Gemini