Notes

Unfinished thoughts, and things I am working out in public. New ones go out over RSS.

Date Title
9 Jun 2026 Why solving urgent problems relies on a different kind of “AI scientist”
15 Apr 2026 Stop Guessing, Start Investing
25 Mar 2026 Science is Too Successful
20 Mar 2026 How to Get an Interest-Free Loan
4 Mar 2026 OpenClaw Did Not Save Me
27 Jan 2026 Deep Networks as Elastic Origami
29 Dec 2025 The Geometry of Not Enough Data
31 Oct 2025 Why I Start Things Uncomfortably Early
14 Oct 2025 On Impactful Research
1 Oct 2025 Lessons Learned from Writing My First ERC Proposal
5 Aug 2025 All of AI is Context Engineering
1 Jun 2025 The Epistemic Risks of AI-Only Science
25 Apr 2025 The Optimal Amount of Wasted Research Funding Is Non-Zero
23 Apr 2025 Autoencoders as Digital Archaeologists for Spectroscopic Data
5 Apr 2025 Notes on My Peer Review Process: An Invitation to Compare Practices
5 Feb 2025 Beyond the Era of Accidental Discovery
2 Feb 2025 10 Reasons to Aim Higher. And Higher.
12 Jan 2025 Dear Claude: Are We Getting Too Close?
9 Jan 2025 Thinking aloud about the shape of scientific data
5 Jan 2025 A wise bird
5 Jan 2025 Trust Me, There’s a Method to This Madness
2 Dec 2024 Take it easy, my friend
21 Sep 2024 The Tail End
3 May 2024 Performing basic analysis of molecules generated by ML models
2 May 2024 Building a GPT that can generate molecules from scratch
2 May 2024 Building an LLM agent from scratch
24 Mar 2024 The ‘researcher’s stuff’
2 Mar 2024 Language I want to be more mindful of
2 Mar 2024 Multiple instances learning
23 Feb 2024 Developing an intuition for backpropagation
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