Far be it from me
or, views from my ascent of the shoulders of a giant tower of people
Writing is thinking. There is a lot to think about, therefore there is a lot to write about. Here is a collection of writings reflecting snapshots of my progress in thinking.
While I aim for readability, I don’t aim to be read. Beware that your time might be better spent elsewhere. If you do spend time here, I welcome comments/questions via email.
(“Planned” essays are not promised, but feel free to bump me if you care.)
What passes for my research blog
Research journal:
- Volumetric analaysis of ICLR 2025 review process (2024.12.08)
- Seven saturdays with singular learning theory (2023.07–unfinished)
Goals for my graduate studies:
- Balanced academic orbit (2025.05.25)
Essays on technology and civilisation, especially AI risk
Reflections on ethics of AI progress:
- Guest lecture: Ethics and the future of intelligence (2024.05.23)
- Strong engineering (planned)
- Move fast, break everything (planned)
- Pax evolutionaria (planned)
- Reductio ad absurdum (planned)
Research agendas:
- Towards emergent software engineering (planned)
Open letters:
- Contra Zuckerberg on ‘Open Source AI’ (2024.07.26)
- Safe and responsible AI in Australia (2023.07.28)
Notes on the theory of computation and learning
Transformers:
- Transformers are universal in-context function approximators (2024.12.05)
- Attention: All you need to know (2025.03.29)
- Transformers: Perceptrons in disguise (planned)
Decision theory:
- Minimax, three ways (2025.02.23)
- Approximate minimax, three ways (2025.02.25)
Cheating Kolmogorov sequence:
- Turing trees (2025.07.15)
- (More planned…)
Expectiles are underrated sequence:
- Expectiles are configurably-optimistic expectations (2025.06.11)
- Expectiles are simple to compute (2025.06.11)