bookmarks and writings on stuff about computers
April 16, 2026 · 28 Min Read On Michael Levin's research and approach Michael Levin has been a pretty big intellectual influence on me since being more formally introduced to his work by Pro during the after hours of the Systems Distributed 25 conference in Amsterdam, last year. A lot of my research time and overall thinking since then has been about getting a real mental model of both what is…
January 23, 2026 · 9 Min Read On a book review and my recent trip to Vienna I spent a week in Vienna recently on a Wittgenstein pilgrimage of sorts. Discovering him at 17 was a pretty important moment in my life. I had recently been sent away from my mother’s house by the police, and ended up living in the countryside in the south west of France, in the house of my aunt’s boyfriend-at-the-time. He…
December 26, 2025 · 13 Min Read On The Math Books I am using to learn about Pure Mathematics - Part 1 Don’t just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Paul Halmos in “I want to be a Mathematician” Due to my growing interest in “general abstract nonsense” ever since I found out about Category Theory , I have been both solidifying my…
December 25, 2025 · 9 Min Read On my personal development environment and some of the tools I use To wrap up 2025, I wanted to take some time to write up what my personal development environment looks like. For context, I mostly use a Macbook Pro M1 Pro 14inch (2021) plugged to an external monitor which acts as a dock for all the things I do use when in my office. Equipment Monitor: Dell…
December 9, 2025 · 3 Min Read Some thoughts about myself I am literally just a guy who started hanging out on the internet as a kid and ever since has read a bunch of stuff and books. I have spent most of my time either working to have money or following my random interests with, 99% of the time, no overarching goal (outside of maybe some faint sense of aesthetic that it is “what someone like me…
October 28, 2025 · 4 Min Read On Signal vs Noise in ML discourse and the culture that surrounds it The last decade in Deep Learning is, I believe, the most profound and relevant field of research in Computer Science of my lifetime (so far!). The culmination of almost a hundred years of computer science and mathematics. Certainly, it was the most surprising and wonderful thing I have ever seen…
August 29, 2025 · 6 Min Read Brain Dump on X.com and Recent Books I've Read I am on a bit of an x dot com hiatus, due to frustrations with the platform and a declining level of interest over the last few months. Part of the fun of Posting has just disappeared for me. It’ll probably come back, but I’ve been on a steady decline of activity (outside of intermittent bursts of replies or a couple posts…
August 23, 2025 · 1 Min Read On How To Get Into ML Compilers I received a DM earlier this week that was generally asking about how does one “get into compilers and ML compilers specifically”. This is what I answered: re: trying to break into ML compilers specifically, idk if I have any good advice outside of: reading the codebases of smaller ML compilers tinkering or hacking on your own very small…
June 24, 2025 · 4 Min Read On Comparing Yourself to Brilliant People I’m not a retard, but I’m nowhere near people like Sphere either. I’m working hard on getting better and making up the time I wasted when I was a kid, but I get the feeling that I’m running a race in which I don’t even know if the finish line will still exist when I get there. I will try to find places where I’ve written about…
April 27, 2025 · 1 Min Read The Intentional Bubble I literally don’t get affected by 99% of the things in the world simply because I have designed a careful bubble to live in. I allow a constant small stream of adversarial inputs through meeting a lot of people, traveling, and platforms like X. Then, I expand my bubble for a bit, adding new people and things around me. After a couple of months, I…