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Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria Workshop at ICML 2025

July 14, 2025

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Min-p, Max Exaggeration: A Critical Analysis of Min-p Sampling in Language Models

April 22, 2025

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Alternative Reviewing Rubric for Machine Learning Conferences

April 13, 2025

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Stanford CS229 Machine Learning Advice

March 4, 2025

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Comments on Shumailov et al. 'AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data.' Nature 2024.

July 26, 2024

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Advice on Sending Cold Emails

December 24, 2023

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Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know (Paper Notes)

February 14, 2023

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Chinchilla Scaling Laws (Paper Notes)

February 14, 2023

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Predicted Ending of Berserk

December 31, 2022

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Paper Summary - "Memorizing Transformers"

September 9, 2022

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Paper Summary - "Imitation with Neural Density Models"

September 9, 2022

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Paper Summary - "Universal Hopfield Networks"

September 8, 2022

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Paper Summary - "Complementary Learning Systems Theory Updated"

September 8, 2022

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Cheatsheet - Self-Supervised Learning for Vision

August 29, 2022

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How Survivorship Bias Creates PhD-Professor Market Inefficiencies

May 1, 2022

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Finetuned Language Models are Zero-Shot Learners

January 20, 2022

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Hollow Spheres in High Dimensions

January 17, 2022

Experience Replay in Machines and Mammals

January 12, 2022

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Bay Area housing is f***ed in more ways than you might think

January 9, 2022

housing

Why I Left Wyzant

January 8, 2022

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The Idea Machine

October 25, 2021

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Stanford's Workshop on Foundation Models

August 24, 2021

artificial-intelligence

The Idea Machine - The Cultural Ratchet

August 11, 2021

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Advice on PhD Applications

August 10, 2021

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Bri's Wedding

August 2, 2021

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A Tribute to Kentaro Miura

June 1, 2021

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Why the ending of Shinjeki no Kyojin was abysmal (Part Two)

April 11, 2021

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Why the ending of Shinjeki no Kyojin was abysmal (Part One)

April 7, 2021

2021 book-summaries random

Book Summary - Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg

April 6, 2021

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The Idea Machine

March 8, 2021

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The Idea Machine

February 27, 2021

idea-machine 2021 MIT Harvard

The Idea Machine

January 24, 2021

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The Idea Machine

December 13, 2020

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Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Application

October 14, 2020

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Grandpa's Passing

October 13, 2020

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The Idea Machine

September 30, 2020

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Oh, the Places You'll Go

September 29, 2020

dr-seuss inspiration

The Idea Machine

August 24, 2020

idea-machine 2020 MIT Harvard

Lessons from Summer Interns

August 5, 2020

2020 MIT

The Idea Machine

June 16, 2020

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The Idea Machine

May 30, 2020

idea-machine 2020 MIT Harvard

The Idea Machine

April 5, 2020

idea-machine 2020 MIT Harvard

The Idea Machine

March 8, 2020

idea-machine 2020 MIT Harvard

The Idea Machine

January 19, 2020

idea-machine 2020 MIT Harvard

Family Album 2019

December 31, 2019

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Wisdom from Animorphs

August 29, 2019

2019 animorphs reading inspiration

Taglit-Birthright Israel

August 17, 2019

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Family Album 2018

December 31, 2018

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Family Album 2017

December 31, 2017

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Arvind Narayanan's Ending the Online Panopticon

December 30, 2015

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Reconstructing Facebook

December 21, 2015

privacy 2015

Oh, the Places You'll Go

October 12, 2015

dr-seuss inspiration

The Case for Tor at UC Davis

October 10, 2015

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Weekly Quizzes, German Education, and Grade Inflation

February 19, 2015

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