Dyson Spheres
The absurdity of dyson spheres on any timescale we'll experience.
Blog.AlexAlemi.com
Various musings.
Latest posts
Texpad
A simple tool for live editing copyable LaTeX pngs.
Plaque
A dirt-simple bring-your-own-editor 'reactive' python notebook package.
Sliderules Rule
I made a zine about them and a digital sliderule you can use.
A Quarter for your Thoughts
Get the precision of one sig fig essentially for free.
A Degree of Certainty
Let's measure probability in degrees.
Leap Day
Going overboard to prove the local newspaper wrong.
KL is All You Need
It's all KL under the hood.
The Method of Imaginary Results
Don't think about your prior, think about a hypothetical posterior.
Ventilation
A simple model of CO2 concentration in our home.
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics Results Seemingly from Nothing
Deriving some classic results in non-equilibrium thermodynamics from seemingly nothing.
A Path to the Variational Diffusion Loss
Deriving the (Variational) Diffusion and VAE losses from the non-negativity of KL.
Knots
A short list of useful knots to know.
A Simple Demonstration of Benford's Law
Benford's law is a natural consequence of scale invariance, this is relatively easy to see in the face of a circular sliderule.
Blogging
I miss blogging and reading other researchers blogs.
Why KL?
Why is the KL divergence so special?