Research
My research writing: physics, math, information theory, learning theory, and the occasional adjacent topic. Posts here are written by me. The plainness of the theming is deliberate.
The other pages:
- Writing — non-technical pieces: essays, translations, poetry.
- Notes — working notes on what I am currently thinking about, written up by Claude from my drafts.
- Curated Tutorial Prompts — mini-curricula and hands-on tutorials to feed to an LLM or work through yourself.
- Widgets — small interactive toys that run in the browser.
- About and CV — who I am, and my CV.
Posts
- Some Interesting Papers on RLVR
- Coalitional Darwinism
- A Spectral Theory of Computation
- The Geometry of Sequential Computation
- Power Laws Are Not Enough
- Selection As Noisy Channel
- The Fitness Value of Information
- Characterizing Predictive Salience via Hankel Spectra
- Every Measurement Has a Scale
- Alternatives to Entropy; Eigenvalues of Odd Things
- Introducing Mediating Latent Variables for Fun and Profit
- Probabilities as Energies; and, Cluster Decomposition of Joint Distributions
- KL Boogaloo: Tempered KL Divergence For Metric-Aware Entropy
- Scale-Dependent Geometry from Diffusion
- Simple Exercises on Transformers 1: Self-Attention
- KL Divergence, Geometric Naturalness, and Optimal Transport
- Why Differential Entropy Stinks (And What to Do About It)
- Bayesian Entropy
- Appendices to Bayesian Entropy
- Zero Measure Principle for Physics Metatheory
- Nonlinear Calculi
- Math and Symbols
- Infra-Bayesianism For People Who Don't Know Measure Theory
- Everybody is a Quantum Bayesian
- Musings on Running Couplings and Invariant Subspaces