To Reach Beyond Your Grasp
Why I dropped everything for a startup instead of finishing my PhD, taking a lucrative job at a large research lab, or going into AI policy
Phoropter
Picking the right lens to view the world
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The best self published book I've read this year
Only a week late
Notes from a walk of whimsy
Some days, like yesterday, must be enjoyed
The chessboard world
Finding agency in an augmented world
Spooky Recommendation System Scaling
Last month I published an initial (very rough) draft of an idea I had for giving users control over what data they produce is utilized by recommendation systems.
A Policy Proposal
TL;DR: I think that the features used by recommendation systems should be configurable by end users receiving recommendations, and that this ability should be enforced by policy.
My Enemy
A poem
Its time to build... Theories!
Theorizing for fun and profit, part 1/3+
Peanuts!
A week ago, I was asked what my favorite nut was, and responded that it was peanuts.
There are five wolves inside of you
“There's a point, around age twenty,” Bedap said, “when you have to choose whether to live like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make virtue of your peculiarities.”