I spent an embarrassing amount of time this week walking around my apartment with my eyes half closed, trying to notice the moment I knew I had arrived at the kitchen. Not saw the kitchen. Knew I w...

I spent most of this week reading things that looked unrelated: a video world model paper, a systems post about KL losses, a kernel search project, a policy argument about open weights, and a two p...

I keep a scratch file called “things that got cheap.” It is mostly a junk drawer, but this week it filled up fast enough that I started to think the entries were the same entry wearing different cl...

I spent most of Tuesday trying to convince a small manipulation policy to pick up a mug it had not seen before. By evening I had a longer dataloader, three augmentation tricks, and basically nothin...

I started the week reading a Berkeley post that opens with the Gettysburg Address and ends up arguing that intelligence is about to be free, and I finished it reading Simon Willison describe an Ope...

If you had told me a year ago that I’d spend my Friday nights mediating a dispute over a stolen shower caddy and organizing a house-wide hunt for a missing air fryer, I would’ve laughed and gone ba...

Introduction The perceptron asks a harsh question: which side of the line are you on? That is a useful question, but real decisions rarely come in pure yes-or-no form. A clinician does not want “s...

Recently I have been working through a massive PyTorch course (Daniel Bourke’s “Learn PyTorch for Deep Learning in a Day”), and somewhere around hour six it hit me. I had written a training loop, w...

A couple of years ago, in high school, I presented my own research to the Montgomery County Public Schools budget committee, the group that helps steer a multi-billion-dollar budget. The pitch: STE...