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Notebook: Random Feature Regularization
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Course Announcement: "Statistical Principles of Generative AI" (Fall 2025)
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Post: On Feral Library Card Catalogs, or, Aware of All Internet Traditions
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Post: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2025
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Notebook: Economic Networks
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Notebook: Mori-Zwanzig Formalisms
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Notebook: Becker Economies, i.e., Microeconomics Based on Random Choice within Constraints
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Blog post: The Books I Am Not Going to Write
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Blog post: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2025
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Notebook: "Occam"-style Bounds for Long Programs
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Notebook: Empirical Likelihood
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Notebook: A. R. Luria
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Paper: "Large AI models are cultural and social technologies"
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Notebook: Mesopotamia, especially Sumeria
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Notebook: Math I Ought to Learn
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Notebook: "Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
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Blog post: The Distortion Is Inherent in the Signal
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