TLDR abstraction isn’t free or always desirable.

Did you know Vietnamese has never had its own native alphabet? They were all based off Chinese characters.

Misalignment is when the reward function you specify induces an optimal policy that you don’t like. At least that’s how I define it.

You can think of semigroups, monoids, and groups as the minimal structures needed to define and extend exponents.

This is an opinionated and incomplete book. These are sloppy notes.

One of the best interviews I’ve seen. Check it out.

These are so handy.

Beijing does 1 thing better than anywhere else I’ve been to: skewers.

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Knowing lots of facts without anything to unite them is like having a crappy Tetris board.

The ladder of abstraction is more a jungle gym.

I never thought I’d like carbonara.

It bugs me how I’ve read stories where a character comes to a major realization, often about life in general, says they’re changed, and then goes on to live their life in essentially the same way, with only minor tweaks.

I got sick of writing organized blog posts, so I’m going to compromise on clean blog posts and just dump thoughts.

Better known as the inventor of the bootstrap.

A teacher makes implicit knowledge explicit. Specifically, they make knowledge implicit in the teacher explicit.