Hi I'm Prince. I sometimes write. Find more about me on my personal website...
Ironically, I'm writing this post a few hours after watching Paul Graham speak live at the Oxford Union (thanks Daniel for adding me as a guest). Ironic because PG believes students should NOT drop out . Anyways, I just sent my rustication email (Oxford speak for suspending your studies). I will be working full time for a start-up. Thanks Konrad @ Hummingbird for introing me to them. UPDATE…
Some of the most important work happening anywhere right now is being done at companies like Anduril and Palantir. Drones, autonomous systems, serious software for the people whose actual job is keeping the free world standing. And somehow the fact that this matters is still up for debate. I first properly clashed on this with a friend at Oxford. I can't even remember how we got onto it, but at…
Project by Mani , Prince , Sassan & Yusuf . The team with the most juj about them at Arbox3. This blog post was written by Yusuf. Context This is a write-up of a mini-project we worked on as part of the Alignment Research Bootcamp Oxford (ARBOx3) , building on prior interpretability work on ChessGPT. Adam Karvonen trained a GPT model to predict the next character in chess games written in PGN…
This short post introduces a potentially devastating hypothetical form of life assuming no background knowledge from readers. It's split up into the following sections: What are Mirror Bacteria and Why are they Different? How Mirror Bacteria Could Cause Harm An Overview of the Current State of the Field Learn more about biosecurity at Bluedot Impact's free course . 1. What are Mirror Bacteria and…
I was fortunate enough to be offered an internship as a Talent Investor at Entrepreneurs First over summer in 2025. I believe that the last 3 months have been the most formative in my life thus far and will likely continue to be. Today is my last day as a TI here. I'm extremely grateful to Max Mugnaioni, James Richards, the rest of the EF team, and the founders of LD Summer 25 for making this the…
Crossposted and written by Josh Muthu & Prince Kumar For the last 3 months, we’ve both been interning at Entrepreneurs First (EF), a company that helps talented people build startups from scratch. In our penultimate week, we ran an AI Security Hackathon alongside BlueDot Impact, with sponsorship from Workshop Labs and Geodesic Research. It was a big success! This post: 1. recounts the story behind…
I borrowed 'How to be a Founder' by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford from EF's shelf. I probably wouldn't have read it if it wasn't free to borrow from the office but I'm glad I did. Here are my favorite (most relevant to me) lessons: 1. Founders can't plan to fail 'If you start to focus on what will happen if it doesn't work then you will never succeed.' As someone who's played a lot of strategy…
SGD is an optimisation algorithm that updates model parameters using the gradient of the loss function w.r.t. the parameters on a small and random subset of data. In this blog post, I'll explain how SGD works by applying it to a basic ML scenario. In the future I hope to apply it to more complex scenarios such as CNNs and reinforcement learning. 1. Single-feature Linear Regression (Easy) Our goal…
The FastAI Course is "A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems." This blog post is a quick summary on how to build an image classification model for horses using part 1, lesson 1 of the course which you can find here . I recommend watching the video and also reading the chapter 1 of the…