Harysdalvi

AI agents threaten to make people redundant, even those who learn to use AI. The only solution is to achieve mastery and outcompete AI.

RLHF forces us to view LLMs as agents in an environment, not just statistical models.

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 in just 91 lines of C++ code, and how "election pundit predictions" betray a misunderstanding of probability

Looking into the math and the data reveals that transformers are both overused and underused.

An online tool using historical phonology to predict words in modern languages from Latin and Sanskrit

A surprisingly deep connection between statistics and classical mechanics

A simple interactive model for regional and global climate and greenhouse gases using the Stefan-Boltzmann law

My experience walking 29 miles across Rhode Island

My reflections on a trip to Europe and the history of science and technology