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 physical models, and high-dimensional Bayesian inference…
- philosophy of science and consciousness etc in the light of the above,
- survival tips, broadly construed, for wherever I am living, and
You might be after information about me generally, or what I am doing right now.
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Garbled highlights from ICLR 2025
neural nets
South East Asia
statistics
Singapore
South East Asia
statistics
Code generation, programming assistants
faster pussycat
language
machine learning
making things
neural nets
NLP
signal processing
stringology
UI
Gradient steps to an ecology of mind
adaptive
agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
energy
evolution
extended self
game theory
gene
incentive mechanisms
learning
mind
networks
probability
social graph
sociology
statistics
statmech
utility
wonk
Mechanistic interpretability
communicating
feature construction
statmech
stochastic processes
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
sparser than thou
How to do research funding
academe
diy
Which self?
economics
ethics
extended self
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
utility
Knowledge geometry
collective knowledge
how do science
stringology
topology
AI search
boring
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
mind
NLP
provenance
search
wonk
Machine learning for inverting partial differential equations
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
Graphical model / machine learning decoder ring
algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
when to compute
Conflict theoretic models
adaptive
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
game theory
incentive mechanisms
networks
wonk
Variational Bayes Neural Nets and Graphical Models
algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
Configuring machine learning experiments with Fiddle
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
premature optimization
provenance
python
Economics of automation, especially cognitive automation
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
technology
UI
PDF, Portable Document Format
computers are awful
making things
office
provenance
standards
Contemporary rationalists
catastrophe
culture
ethics
history
language
mind
wonk
Economics of foundation models
agents
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
Design of multi-agent systems
agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
concurrency hell
distributed
economics
edge computing
extended self
game theory
incentive mechanisms
machine learning
networks
swarm
Databases (for scientists)
computers are awful
concurrency hell
data sets
DIY social networks and social-groupware
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
P2P
Indieweb, small web, cozy web
communicating
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
Secure chat systems
communicating
computers are awful
confidentiality
encryption
Human domestication
agents
cooperation
culture
distributed
economics
evolution
extended self
incentive mechanisms
language
mind
utility
wonk
Configuring machine learning experiments
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
premature optimization
provenance
Retirement saving in Australia
diy
economics
money
Southeast Asia
utility
Money, Australian-style
diy
economics
money
Southeast Asia
utility
Real estate economics
cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
Neural denoising diffusion models with non-Gaussian distributions
approximation
Bayes
classification
generative
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
statistics
Natalism and fertility
economics
ethics
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
Git tricks
computers are awful
provenance
workflow
Pathwise solutions of stochastic differential equations
dynamical systems
Lévy processes
probability
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
stochastic processes
time series
Scalable vector graphics
computers are awful
faster pussycat
photon choreography
Generative AI workflows and hacks 2025
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
stringology
technology
UI
Text data processing
computers are awful
data sets
plain text
stringology
Transformer networks
language
machine learning
meta learning
neural nets
NLP
stringology
time series
Won’t somebody think of the children?
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
utility
wonk
Multimodal AI
approximation
Bayes
generative
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
statistics
Differentiable learning of automata
compsci
machine learning
making things
neural nets
Designing social movements
agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
rhetoric
social graph
sociology
swarm
wonk
Email blogs and newsletters
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
writing
Schelling-Goodhart coordination problems
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
machine learning
optimization
religion
statistics
utility
Science communication of ML research
academe
communicating
faster pussycat
learning
mind
statistics
Singular Learning Theory
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
physics
pseudorandomness
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
Indonesia
nusantara
place
Southeast Asia
Feedback system identification, not necessarily linear
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
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