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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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
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
Quarto
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
javascript
julia
language
making things
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
writing
Web browser automation
browser
computers are awful together
confidentiality
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
Code generation, programming assistants
faster pussycat
language
machine learning
making things
neural nets
NLP
signal processing
stringology
UI
q-exponential process
Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
Lévy processes
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
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
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
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
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
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
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
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
Editing images using a GUI
computers are awful
generative art
making things
photon choreography
Configuring machine learning experiments
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
premature optimization
provenance
Real estate economics
cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
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
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
Email blogs and newsletters
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
writing
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
Developmental interpretability
Bayes
bounded compute
dynamical systems
feature construction
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
uv, the python package manager
computers are awful
python
standards
Privacy while web browsing
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
Human enthalpy
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
utility
wonk
Neural nets that do symbolic mathematics, logic and other reasoning tasks
compsci
language
machine learning
meta learning
networks
neural nets
NLP
stringology
Syncthing
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
distributed
diy
P2P
Causal abstraction
approximation
Bayes
causal
generative
graphical models
language
machine learning
meta learning
neural nets
NLP
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
stringology
time series
Python packaging, environment and dependency management
computers are awful
python
standards
Pip-like python environment management
computers are awful
python
standards
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