Working in science, I do a lot of academic writing as a matter of course. I enjoy it, but it also means most of my thinking is academic too.
This digital garden is an attempt to wander further. For now it leans technical, mostly notes on what I'm studying, but I want it to range wider over time. These are working notes: they link to each other, they get revised, and some are unfinished. Pick a note, follow a link, and see where the walk takes you.
Start here
- Learning, in brains and machines: Learning, Neocortex, Predictive Learning, World models
- Information and learnability: Predictive V-information, No-Free-Lunch theorem, VC-dimension
- Physics and mathematics: Classical mechanics, Lagrange multipliers, Group theory, Conservation laws
- Programs and computation: Data abstraction, Metalinguistic abstraction, Register machine
- Essays: Will AI-artists make humanity less creative?