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Two styles of AI risk arguments
Added 2022-07-02, Modified 2022-07-20A common failure mode in introducing AI risk, and how to do better
Optimal Polynomial Approximation
Added 2022-03-13, Modified 2022-07-20An introduction to linear algebra and least squares on functions
Newton's Method
Added 2022-02-17, Modified 2022-07-20A gentle introduction to root finding and it's applications
Posts
Incentives considered harmful
Added 2023-01-14Incentives, commitment devices, and accountability, are all actively harmful when they replace intrinsic motivation due to the overjustification effect
Self Alignment
Added 2022-09-05Bug generators, Hamming questions and the importance of internal alignment.
Staring at a candle for an hour
Added 2022-08-25, Modified 2022-08-31It isn't as boring as it sounds, you should start meditating.
KL Divergence Made Easy
Added 2022-07-28KL-divergence is just the expected additional surprise from the map territory mismatch
ELK Research Postmortem
Added 2022-07-21, Modified 2022-07-28Lessons from the research I did for the Prometheus ELK contest with Luke Bousfield
Duality done right
Added 2022-03-08, Modified 2022-06-26A more elegant view of duality then is presented in axler's book
How to study a pure math textbook
Added 2022-02-16, Modified 2022-04-08Lessons painfully learned from teaching myself math
Regex adventures
Added 2022-02-08, Modified 2022-03-12Perl is overpowered and can replace grep,sed,awk,cut, etc
Cool Stuff
Added 2021-12-21, Modified 2022-07-31Giant blob of links to things that wowed me, or are useful
Quotes and Proverbs
Added 2021-12-18, Modified 2022-08-13"Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when fuelled by a quotation." - Emil Cioran
Learning Recommendations
Added 2021-12-09, Modified 2022-04-08Advice for learning faster, and specific advice for various topics
Hyperbolics
Added 2021-09-11, Modified 2022-08-31Deriving cosh and sinh using implicit differentiation
Generating Functions
Added 2021-05-29, Modified 2022-08-31How polynomials are equivalent to dice
Eulers Theorem
Added 2021-04-15, Modified 2022-09-18Groups make it easy
Recursion abuse
Added 2021-02-16, Modified 2022-08-31What recursion is actually good for
Polynomial interpolation
Added 2020-12-19, Modified 2022-09-03From scratch, using gaussian elimination
Short
- 2023-01-30 - Debugging python memory leaks
- 2022-08-08 - Jedi Training
- 2022-05-23 - Quality README's
- 2022-04-29 - Logical Mnemonics
- 2022-04-01 - Cut the enemy
- 2022-03-15 - Computing pi
- 2022-03-10 - Learning Manim
- 2022-02-28 - CSS Quickstart
- 2022-02-28 - Efficient Fourier series in desmos
- 2022-02-16 - How to type math unicode
- 2022-02-09 - Misleading tesla safety statistics
- 2022-01-27 - Tiling in xfce
- 2022-01-11 - Triggers of emotional events
- 2022-01-02 - Finding typescript types
- 2022-01-02 - Deploying with git
- 2022-01-01 - The Components of Freedom
Drafts
All Computable Functions are Continuous
Added 2023-01-14The physicists were right all along, all functions are continuous.
Make Caring Cool
Added 2022-09-02Caring is beat out of us as children. Can we do something about this?
Self Empiricism
Added 2022-07-30Patterns revealed from 80+ of my journal entries, and why you should start journaling.
Derivative tricks
Added 2022-07-29, Modified 2022-08-01Nonstandard derivative exercises, used for a calculus class I'm teaching.
Javascript Automation Tricks
Added 2022-07-20Quick guide to automating the boring stuff with javascript
On token efforts
Added 2022-06-26, Modified 2022-07-04A token effort is one that is done more for social status then practical effectiveness, this is an analysis of their advantages and disadvantages.
The Bunny Problem
Added 2021-12-04, Modified 2022-03-12An approach using probability theory
Vector calculus for ML
Added 2021-10-10, Modified 2022-03-12Rules for differentiating neural networks
Interior point
Added 2021-05-30, Modified 2022-03-12Solving linear programming problems