Welcome to Dan’s brain
The contents of my head are not useful if they stay in there, so I regularly copy-paste them onto the internet, into this very website. Here you can find most of the things I am thinking about, in the form of a higgledy heap of half-finished notebooks and occasional polished essays. Themes include whatever shiny thing distracted me into taking notes about it, including, but not limited to,
- statistical inference in areas I am interested in such as pragmatics of reasoning machines, physics-constrained world models, and high-dimensional Bayesian inference…
- philosophy of science and mind in the light of the above, and
- survival tips, broadly construed, for wherever I am living.
You might be after information about me generally, or what I am doing right now.
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Fractal dimension of loss landscapes and self similar behaviour in neural networks
AI safety
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
physics
pseudorandomness
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
Utopian governance
economics
extended self
incentive mechanisms
institutions
markets
money
wonk
Self-organization
agents
compsci
distributed
extended self
game theory
generative art
hidden variables
incentive mechanisms
life
photon choreography
self similar
spatial
statmech
swarm
“Generalized” Bayesian inference
Bayes
estimator distribution
functional analysis
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
Natalism and fertility
economics
ethics
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
Singular Learning Theory
AI safety
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
physics
pseudorandomness
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
Developmental interpretability
AI safety
Bayes
bounded compute
dynamical systems
feature construction
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
AI Safety Australia
adversarial
AI safety
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
security
Southeast Asia
tail risk
technology
Learning Schrödinger bridges
approximation
Bayes
generative
Lévy processes
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimal transport
optimization
point processes
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
Large sample theory
Gaussian
likelihood
optimization
probability
statistics
Neural denoising diffusion models
approximation
Bayes
generative
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
statistics
Real estate economics
cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
Conditioning neural denoising diffusion models
approximation
Bayes
generative
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
statistics
Queerness
culture
diy
gender
personality
sex
sociology
wonk
Groundwater hydrology, applied
geometry
machine learning
physics
statmech
straya
Economics of foundation models
agents
AI safety
bounded compute
collective knowledge
economics
edge computing
extended self
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
innovation
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
swarm
technology
UI
when to compute
Data sets for machine learning for partial differential equations
calculus
data sets
dynamical systems
geometry
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
Gradient descent at scale
functional analysis
machine learning
model selection
optimization
premature optimization
statmech
Curators of nice bits of internet
computers are awful together
making things
provenance
Static website editors
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
Being stroppy
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
ML benchmarks and their pitfalls
economics
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
machine learning
neural nets
statistics
Economics of cognitive automation
AI safety
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
technology
UI
Computational complexity results in neural nets
compsci
machine learning
making things
neural nets
Information storage and retrieval in NNs
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
technology
UI
Singular Value Decomposition
feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
Science; Institution design for
academe
agents
collective knowledge
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
provenance
sociology
wonk
Orthonormal and unitary matrices
algebra
dynamical systems
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
signal processing
spheres
stochastic processes
time series
Neural vector embeddings
approximation
feature construction
geometry
high d
language
linear algebra
machine learning
metrics
neural nets
NLP
World models arising in foundation models.
approximation
Bayes
generative
language
machine learning
meta learning
Monte Carlo
neural nets
NLP
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
stringology
time series
Disentangled representation learning
Bayes
bounded compute
dynamical systems
feature construction
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
AI Zen Koans
AI safety
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
writing
Models of inequity
culture
diy
ethics
gender
gene
sex
sociology
wonk
Snowmobile or bicycle?
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
stringology
technology
UI
Quarto integrated website system
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
javascript
julia
language
making things
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
writing
Neural network activation functions
calculus
classification
dynamical systems
geometry
machine learning
neural nets
physics
regression
sciml
statistics
Mechanistic interpretability
AI safety
communicating
feature construction
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
Python debugging, profiling and testing
computers are awful
premature optimization
python
Commitment, contracts, cooperation
adaptive
agents
causal
cooperation
economics
evolution
extended self
game theory
graphical models
incentive mechanisms
learning
mind
networks
social graph
utility
wonk
Garbled highlights from ICLR 2025
neural nets
South East Asia
statistics
Bayesian epistemics
adaptive
agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
control
cooperation
distributed
economics
evolution
extended self
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
learning
machine learning
mind
networks
provenance
sociology
squad
standards
swarm
utility
Learning with theory of mind
adaptive
agents
bandit problems
bounded compute
collective knowledge
control
cooperation
distributed
economics
evolution
extended self
game theory
incentive mechanisms
learning
machine learning
mind
networks
swarm
utility
Science for policy
catastrophe
communicating
economics
ethics
how do science
mind
probability
statistics
tail risk
wonk
Design of multi-agent systems
agents
AI safety
bounded compute
collective knowledge
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
distributed
economics
edge computing
extended self
game theory
incentive mechanisms
machine learning
networks
swarm
Research discovery, synthesis planning
academe
collective knowledge
faster pussycat
how do science
institutions
mind
networks
provenance
sociology
wonk
Quarto
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
javascript
julia
language
making things
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
writing
Reinforcement learning
adaptive
agents
bandit problems
control
incentive mechanisms
learning
networks
stochastic processes
time series
utility
Particle variational message passing
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
machine learning
Monte Carlo
networks
optimization
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
Web browser automation
browser
computers are awful together
confidentiality
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
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