Friends
2026-08-21 — 2026-09-29
Wherein the Author Sets Down a Roll of Persons Whose Pages He Commends to the Reader, After the Manner of the Blogroll of Antiquity.
This is a /friends page: a 2026 human-oriented variant of the blogroll, as suits indieweb and indieweb-curious temperaments. Nick Gray talked me into making one.
Most of these people I know well, some I spoke to for 5 minutes but I want to bask in the reflected glory of their work anyway.
- Alexander K Saeri — Explainer of practical AI risk
- Anton Korinek — Best economist of automation I know
- Artemy Kolchinsky — The guy who makes the Information bottleneck useful
- Aydin Mohseni — One of the Good Philosophers. There are so few
- Beren Millidge — Institutional superintelligence
- Cheng Soon Ong — My brilliant former boss
- Chris Elliott — gave a great lecture on susceptibilities
- Chris Pang — My collaborator on PIBBSS
- Christian Walder — ML for music and machine gods
- Cole Wyeth — Algorithmic supergames
- Dan Pagendam — My tireless (former) team lead
- Dan Steinberg — Former colleague invented generative search
- Daniel Herrmann — Another of the Good Philosophers.
- Daniel Murfet — learns the shape of knowledge
- David Duvenaud — Gaussian processes are still cool, David
- David Finnigan — You should see his plays
- Derek Sivers — Querdenker
- Edmund Lau — mathematics from within bureaucracy
- Emtiyaz Khan — Bayesian deep learning
- Fernando Boretti, kinda
- Gautam Kamath — Helper for journal founders
- George Robinson — Numbers and computation
- Gustavo Lacerda — Causality, forecasting, finance
- Gwern — Pseudonymous rabbit-hole spelunker
- Ivan Vendrov — Fractal community
- James Nichols — We played in a band and got up to mischief
- Jack Elsworth — bringing bioinformatics to machine learning, instead of the noob play the other way around
- Jess Riedel — We co-founded a journal
- Jesse Hoogland — Probability and geometry
- Joe Edelman — What is meaning alignment?
- Joseph Noel Walker — Thoughtful podcasts that take knowledge seriously and also Australia
- Kaspar König — My magic ear’d friend
- Kirsten Bradley — Gardening before dawn
- Laurence Davies — Transdimensional synth nerdism
- Leon Lang — Helpful brain thinker
- Liam Carroll — SLT and connections
- Luke Snarl — My audio collaborator and near birthday sharer
- Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam — Certifying networks
- Matthias Dellago — Running the AI scene from Innsbruck
- Max Hennick — Skateboarding and physics of neural networks
- Mike McKenna — Cohousing, emotional- and book-smarts
- Mitchell Whitelaw — Generative design and digital art
- Nick Gray — Event organizing and community building
- Ollie Bown — Algorithmic music and sound art
- Paul Riechers — Machine learning and AI alignment
- Pierre Alquier — Nonparametric Bayesian inference and the shape of knowledge
- Rafael dos Santos de Oliveira — Bayesian optimization genius
- Reuben Ingall — a.k.a. Pav Dundee
- Rob Salomone — Bayesian quant
- Sam Wilson — ADHD and the mind
- Samuel Ratnam — Idealist
- Sean Healy — Invented VJing, as far as I am concerned
- Seb Chan — Museum and cultural innovation
- Sofie Loizou — The greatest producer in the galaxy
- Spencer Greenberg — Brains
- Tessa Zettel — Medium-indifferent art
- Theia Vogel — AI researcher, programmer, and once upon a time computational linguist
- Tom Everitt — Causality and minds
- Tomáš Gavenčiak
- wassname (Michael J Clark) — interesting work on AI ethics