Now

2009-03-05 — 2025-06-05

Wherein the author is employed at CSIRO, is engaged in AI safety and hybrid machine‑learning for physical sciences, is resident in Melbourne and is involved in a cohousing project and staff‑association negotiations

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Hi, I’m Dan MacKinlay. This is my now page, in a constellation of now pages.

I’m employed at CSIRO in several capacities:

For all of the above, I maintain a separate, aspirational reading and writing worklist.

I’ve moved to Melbourne as part of my cohousing project (Ouroboros is the housing group; we’d love skill shares) and my new explicit extrovert’s commitment to group projects in general. I’m trying to build out a gig space in our shopfront, but it’s hard when the collective is small and time is short.

Musically, I’m still DJing, but not professionally any longer. I’ll upload some new mixes if I can work out which old mixes to delete. I don’t have much time for music production at the moment, but our Lotekno EPs are gradually coming out.

My current research methods of interest are causal agency and physically informed diffusion in machine learning.

I can’t stop philosophising, as an ML researcher, about various themes in epistemology and ethics.

For more details about research stuff specifically, check my currently reading and writing list.

Yes, I’m up for collaborations.