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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Your model of the world changes the world Known by many other names: goodharting, overfitting, legibility bias, "the map alters the territory" Aug 24, 2025 |
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Links (and other things) for August 2025 Interesting things I read this month Aug 22, 2025 |
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I would really like it if you had a personal website and I think it would make the world better A manifesto on the organic web. Jul 31, 2025 |
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Frontends, Backends, and Setup with Hugo A brief tutorial on setting up Hugo for personal use on GitHub pages. Written for a workshop on building your own personal website at PAIR 2025. Jul 31, 2025 |
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Understanding the Parameter Decomposition papers Understanding attribution-based and stochastic parameter decomposition methods Jul 06, 2025 |
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What's different about a Matryoshka SAE? Brief notes from the Matryoshka SAEs paper. Jun 30, 2025 |
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10 Autoencoders in a Trenchcoat, part 1 Notes on the core sections of Anthropic's Toy Models of Superposition. Jun 25, 2025 |
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Notes on "A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits" Close-reading a classic interpretability paper and trying to make sense of it Jun 14, 2025 |
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Of Essence, Simulators, and Citizens Making sense of life in community in the age of intelligent machines Jun 09, 2025 |
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On Existentialism is a Humanism; selections from Being and Nothingness May 21, 2025 |
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Four Papers: Align and Translate, Seq2Seq, Pointer Networks, and Attention My notes from the third meeting of the 90/30 Club, a paper-reading club (open to everyone!) in SF. May 19, 2025 |
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Life Update: Winter Quarter, Momentum, and the Plan for Now Retrospectives on reorienting the ship, and the sailing plan for the next couple months Mar 30, 2025 |
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Life Update: February 16, 2025 Feb 16, 2025 |
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Retrospectives on Treehacks, and a little bit of Clownishness Assorted, loosely-organized thoughts from my first hackathon Feb 15, 2025 |
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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First attempts at a philosophy of coordination My early drafts in support of the question, "how do we better coordinate with others?" The first part is an unedited braindump-style 'essay' attempting to just get everything down. The second is an initial outline of a more in-depth work that I haven't had time to write. Jan 03, 2025 |
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Life Update: September 27, 2024 Attempting to figure it out Sep 27, 2024 |
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What it looks like through the eyes of the species. Sep 20, 2024 |
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The page about me, Logan, this website's progenitor! Well, really every page on this site is about me — that's kind of the point — but this one especially so. Sep 20, 2024 |
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Whose goals are you striving for anyway? Sep 19, 2024 |
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Poems, quotes, and other material that means something to me. Sep 07, 2024 |
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Trying to figure out how to set up a transformer in pytorch, before I knew any ML or pytorch. Aug 30, 2024 |
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Information theory and statistics Notes on the basics of information theory Aug 17, 2024 |
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Formal models of decision-making Incomplete notes on decision theory. Aug 15, 2024 |
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A started-but-not-nearly-finished set of notes on sorting algorithms. Aug 15, 2024 |
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Algorithmic information theory and friends Incomplete notes from when I was younger on algorithmic information theory. Aug 15, 2024 |
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Links to interesting things online. Jul 19, 2024 |
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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What does it mean to be an American? Jul 04, 2024 |
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I claim that it is actually not difficult to be happy, and that happiness is mostly something you can choose. Jun 25, 2024 |
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Complexity arises from simplicity Or, "think a little bit, but mostly do stuff." May 30, 2024 |
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Good design is less design. May 30, 2024 |
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Simplicity arises from complexity May 30, 2024 |
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May 29, 2024 |
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Often I think I need to be optimizing harder. It's time to take a look around and realize that life is actually, kind of incredibly, great. May 27, 2024 |
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Huh? What is the aesthetics page? May 08, 2024 |
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Music I like. (Last updated in May 2024.) May 08, 2024 |
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May 08, 2024 |
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Aesthetics; or, Things That I Love May 03, 2024 |
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Things I learned about relationships May 03, 2024 |
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May 03, 2024 |
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May 03, 2024 |
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On gardening, using the internet, and redesigning this site Some thoughts on what I want this site to be, and how that's reflected in design changes I recently implemented. Mar 23, 2024 |
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Things we could talk about :) Feb 24, 2024 |
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Notes on set theory and the foundations of math Basic notes from getting comfortable with thinking about sets. Feb 24, 2024 |
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What is social infrastructure? On building connections, filtering problems, and sparkly people. Feb 18, 2024 |
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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My favorite words Dec 18, 2023 |
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Resolutions on the college process An attempt to gain perspective on college admissions, and a philosophy of rejection. Dec 14, 2023 |
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Notes on function, philosophy, and design. Dec 08, 2023 |
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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