Blogs
Opinion pieces, notes and long-form arguments.
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A New Start in 2025
A poem for the year ahead.
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Reading: The Power of Trees
Notes from a small book about trees, and about Pando — arguably the largest living thing on Earth.
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A Few Flags for 2023
Six challenging targets for the year, and the paper of the day.
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A Short Review of 2022
Work, organisation, hobbies: what a year of staying in one city looked like.
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Revive!
Try to make use of github to host again the personal website. It looks like Jekyll is by default supported.
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What AI Taught Me About Management
Objective, model, search strategy — the three things you fix before a machine-learning project, applied to work and to life.
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Made By It, Undone By It?
Written the day after the gene-edited babies were announced: on democratised technology, outliers, and where the line between good and harm actually sits.
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On Evolution, and the Evolution of Intelligence
From the physics of the origin of biological function to a set of open questions about simulating the evolution of intelligence itself.
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Winning, Losing, and the Original Mind
Written while watching a game of Go between a human and a machine, on what it means that the board has not changed at all.
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Where It Gets Hardest
The hardest part of building a company, for me, is restraining my own ideas: choosing a direction, and then building the team around it.
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If You Came to Interview With Us
Notes from the hiring side of the table: what makes a bad impression, and what to prepare instead.
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Character Before Craft
Two things I keep coming back to while building a company: hold your possessiveness loosely, and know where your line is.
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On Rational Deliberation
An opening note on why I would rather we argue from logic than from authority.