Someone using AI won't take your job. AI will
AI agents threaten to make people redundant, even those who learn to use AI. The only solution is to achieve mastery and outcompete AI.
Harys Dalvi
Latest posts
LLMs Do Not Predict the Next Word
RLHF forces us to view LLMs as agents in an environment, not just statistical models.
Why AI Can't Do Your Laundry
Too often, AI does what we humans want to do, and not what we can't or won't do.
Predicting Every Election Since 1916
Predicting Every Election Since 1916 in just 91 lines of C++ code, and how "election pundit predictions" betray a misunderstanding of probability
Can Transformers Solve Everything?
Looking into the math and the data reveals that transformers are both overused and underused.
Connecting Covariance and Rotational Inertia
A surprisingly deep connection between statistics and classical mechanics
Walking Across Rhode Island
My experience walking 29 miles across Rhode Island
BardGPT
I made a miniature GPT model extended with a rhyme and meter model for generating poetry. This is what it taught me about the future of language models
On the Shoulders of Giants
My reflections on a trip to Europe and the history of science and technology
DiscordGPT
How to use data from Discord in a GPT model and talk to a simulation of you and your friends
The Pipe Room
Can a computer ever be conscious like we are? ChatGPT and other technologies are making questions like these decreasingly theoretical.
Sixth Sense
Can humans feel electric fields and other fundamental forces through biological means?
Wabi-Sabi
I made an automatic plant watering system, somehow bringing Japanese aesthetics, circuit design, and C++ data types together in one project.
Shipwreck
How to almost build a remote control sailboat using Arduino
Ortatious Andith ib Staylatt Neller
What does English sound like to people who don't speak it? And what does that have to do with machine learning and overfitting?
2+3=4
Why math seems to describe the physical world so well
Mathematical History
Why we need more historians doing math
What is Schrödinger's Equation?
An informal derivation of the scary-looking Schrödinger equation using as little quantum physics as possible
Testing Copernicus
If all reference frames are valid, can we say that the sun goes around the earth? Almost, but not quite.
Romans Needed Quantum Computers
A history of information density, from the ancient Mayans to quantum computing