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Hi! I’m currently an open-endedness researcher at Lila Sciences working on model creativity in AI for science. Previously at Sakana AI in Tokyo building pretty ALIFE Simulations.

· The shortest 2025 wrapped 01.01.26 Books 01.01.26 How to research 12.28.25 Every City Ranked 12.28.25 A fool's guide to anki 12.28.25 From transformers to R1 08.26.25 AI as _ 06.15.25 Santa Claus Machines 06.09.25 Great Places 06.09.25 Multi-agents 06.04.25 Creativity 06.04.25 AI & Science 06.04.25 AI & Creativity 06.04.25 QD & Negative Sample Equivalence 06.03.25 Open Questions 06.03.25 Humans and Proofs 06.03.25 Artificial Life 06.03.25 AI 06.03.25 · Backprop solves credit assignment 05.08.25 Fun law tidbits 05.08.25 Diffusion models 05.08.25 Functional Information 04.07.25 Statistics 02.18.25 LLMs and open-ended evolution 02.13.25 AI & Agency 02.13.25 Tools that adapt to you 02.13.25 What is life? 02.12.25 The Pathless Path :: Book Review 02.12.25 Open Endedness 02.12.25 ML Vocab 02.12.25 Information 02.12.25 Full Scholarship Tips 02.12.25 Agentic Materials 02.12.25 Levers of change 02.04.25 Ecology, Sensors, & Affordances 02.04.25 GAN & VAE Mode Collapses 01.31.25 Extensions to Claude plays Geoguessr 01.07.25 How to learn 12.20.24 Log 12.19.24 Future of LLM Training 12.16.24 Views of Evolution 12.15.24 Variational Autoencoders 12.15.24 Philosophy of Science 12.15.24 AI Safety 12.15.24 Gerrymandering 12.13.24 Snippets 12.12.24 Probability Definitions & Proofs 12.12.24 The Minimal Series 12.12.24 Databases 12.12.24 Clippings 12.12.24 Statesmanship 12.11.24 Lighting Fixtures 12.11.24 Legal Systems 12.11.24 International Relations 12.11.24 Games 12.11.24 Elections 12.11.24 Cooking 12.11.24 Neural Net Recipes 12.06.24 · The Final 150 12.04.24 Ethics 12.03.24 · The Color of Law :: Book Review 10.29.24 · Log 1: Starting Information Theory 10.18.24 · What Technology Wants :: Book Review 10.16.24 · The Selfish Gene :: Book Review 09.28.24 · Extraterrestial Languages :: Book Review 08.29.24 Life Cycles 08.19.24 Idiots Guide to nginx 08.04.24 Unix/Bash bible 08.03.24 · Legos, Unix Piping, & Open-Endedness 08.01.24 The dumbest language models 07.06.24 #1: What is RL? 05.31.24 Reinforcement Learning 05.31.24 Urban Planning 05.15.24 Things I Believe 05.15.24 Generative Art 05.15.24 Computational Democracy 05.15.24 Generative Watercolor 05.01.24 Automata theory 03.01.24 Compilers 02.23.24 Poisson Distribution 02.22.24 Childhood Agency 02.20.24 Networks 02.19.24 Identity 02.19.24 Economics 02.19.24 Blank 2 Vec 02.19.24 Beauty 02.18.24 Coupling & Decoupling 02.15.24 Monthly Challenges 02.12.24 What I Use 01.02.24 Cooperation across scales 01.02.24 Policy Gradients 12.31.23 Monte Carlo Methods 12.31.23 Inspiration! 12.30.23 Philosophy 12.28.23 Noise 12.28.23 Happiness 12.28.23 Complex Systems 12.28.23 Computational Linguistics 12.28.23 Biology 12.28.23 RLHF 12.26.23 Neural Cellular Automata 12.26.23 AI & Art 12.26.23 Learning List 12.25.23 Website Resources 12.24.23 Spaced repetition 12.24.23 Monte Carlo Tree Search 12.24.23 Agency 12.24.23 Diversity 12.23.23 Fostering scenius 12.16.23 Living computation, cities, & websites 12.05.23 · AI should turn doodles into anime 07.30.23 · How to wear shorts during winter 02.16.23 AI/PCG 02.15.23 Idle Games 02.13.23 Environments and Behavior 02.13.23 Education 02.13.23 Tacit knowledge 02.09.23 Luck 02.04.23 · Should you play social deception games poorly? 02.03.23 · Spaced ossification 01.31.23 · Deceptive underlying representations 01.26.23 Quotes 01.03.23 · Asceticism through abundance 01.02.23 Psychology 01.02.23 Personal Websites 12.28.22 Note Taking 12.16.22 Anthropology 11.13.22 · Explicitness In Practice 08.25.22 Laws 08.23.22 Sociology 08.18.22 Mediocrity and Slacking 08.18.22 Scaling 08.05.22 Cognitive Science 08.03.22 Nintendo 07.02.22 Smartphones on Performance 07.01.22 Curiousity 06.26.22 Generative Models and Language 06.05.22 · Replacing Guilt :: Book Review 05.27.22 · AI-Inspired Human Intelligence 05.27.22 · Winning Elections Without Voting 02.01.21