Archive

Apr 1, 2025
Who is AI For?
Jan 28, 2025
MIT Mystery Hunt 2025
Jan 9, 2025
Using AI to Get the Neopets Destruct-o-Match Avatar
Dec 4, 2024
Late Takes on OpenAI o1
Aug 18, 2024
Nine Years Later
Aug 6, 2024
I'm Switching Into AI Safety
Jul 8, 2024
The Tragedies of Reality Are Coming for You
Apr 30, 2024
Puzzlehunting 201
Mar 23, 2024
Solving Crew Battle Strategy With Math
Jan 21, 2024
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024
Jan 10, 2024
My AI Timelines Have Sped Up (Again)
Nov 25, 2023
Far More Research Into Making Neopoints Than Anyone Needs to Know
Sep 5, 2023
Everfree Northwest 2023
Aug 18, 2023
Eight Years Later
Jul 19, 2023
Machine Learning Got Itself in a Big Damn Hurry
May 9, 2023
A Boötes Shaped Addendum to Writing Mystery Hunt 2023
Apr 21, 2023
Writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2023
Jan 19, 2023
A Prelude to the Inevitable Long Post About MIT Mystery Hunt 2023
Oct 1, 2022
Generative Modelling is Still Accelerating
Aug 18, 2022
Seven Years Later
Jul 14, 2022
I'm Bad at Twitter
May 2, 2022
My 2022 r/place Adventure
Apr 15, 2022
The Dawn of Do What I Mean
Jan 22, 2022
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022
Dec 31, 2021
"My Soul is Pony-Scarred for Life Because of You"
Oct 29, 2021
Review: How To Invent Everything
Aug 18, 2021
Six Years Later
Jul 5, 2021
Why Don't I Have Ads?
May 23, 2021
Sometimes It's Worth Trying to Change the World
May 23, 2021
A New Online Dominion Client Approaches
Apr 7, 2021
The 5 Year Update on Skipping Grad School (and Whether I'd Recommend It)
Feb 18, 2021
Reliving Flash Game History
Jan 29, 2021
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021
Dec 30, 2020
Carbon Footprint Comparison for Gas and Electric Cars
Aug 18, 2020
My AI Timelines Have Sped Up
Aug 18, 2020
Five Years Later
Jun 24, 2020
So Hey, That Open AI LP Thing
May 17, 2020
Our Generation's Chernobyl
May 7, 2020
A Reinforcement Learning Potpourri
Apr 16, 2020
The Argument for Contact Tracing
Mar 22, 2020
Spring Cleaning
Mar 16, 2020
A Puzzlehunt Tech Checklist
Feb 27, 2020
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, Part 2
Jan 22, 2020
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, Part 1
Jan 16, 2020
The Berkeley TA Back Pay Settlement, Summarized
Dec 26, 2019
What Size Should NeurIPS Be?
Nov 17, 2019
Brief Update on AlphaStar Predictions
Oct 29, 2019
Let's Discuss OpenAI's Rubik's Cube Result
Aug 18, 2019
Four Years Later
Jul 27, 2019
A Lagrange Multipliers Refresher, For Idiots Like Me
Jul 11, 2019
I'm Still Here
Jun 4, 2019
Recent RL Papers I've Worked On
May 26, 2019
Thoughts on ICLR 2019
Apr 14, 2019
OpenAI Finals
Feb 22, 2019
An Overdue Post on AlphaStar, Part 2
Feb 22, 2019
An Overdue Post on AlphaStar, Part 1
Jan 26, 2019
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019
Nov 27, 2018
Quick Opinions on Go-Explore
Nov 10, 2018
Stories From the Neopets Economy
Aug 18, 2018
Three Years Later
Aug 6, 2018
Five Seconds to Midnight
Jun 27, 2018
Quick Opinions on OpenAI Five
Jun 6, 2018
Thoughts On ICLR 2018 and ICRA 2018
Mar 29, 2018
First Impressions with the MTG Arena Beta, and Fleeting Fancies
Mar 7, 2018
Blog Posts and Research Papers
Feb 14, 2018
Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet
Jan 18, 2018
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018
Dec 29, 2017
So There I Was, Buying My Little Pony Merchandise in Italy
Nov 18, 2017
The Research Tax
Sep 25, 2017
My First First-Author Paper
Sep 13, 2017
The Friendship Paradox And You
Aug 18, 2017
Two Years Later
Aug 12, 2017
Emergency Post Because OpenAI Just Revealed Their Dota 2 1v1 Bot And I Have Opinions
Jun 27, 2017
Read-through: Hyperparameter Optimization: A Spectral Approach
Apr 26, 2017
On The Perils of Batch Norm
Apr 19, 2017
How Computational Complexity Theory Crept Into A Cognitive Science Study
Mar 18, 2017
We Have A Problem
Feb 22, 2017
Read-through: Wasserstein GAN
Feb 12, 2017
The Default Position Problem
Jan 25, 2017
Research Communication is Hard
Jan 20, 2017
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017
Nov 12, 2016
Introduction to the Hybrid Argument
Nov 8, 2016
Asking The Right Questions: A Story of Failure
Oct 22, 2016
My Understanding of Politics
Sep 7, 2016
Prioritized Contradiction Resolution
Aug 18, 2016
One Year Later
Aug 3, 2016
How Pokemon Go Can Teach Us About Social Equality
Jul 17, 2016
The Machine Learning Casino
Jul 4, 2016
I Got Fruit Opinions
Jul 3, 2016
The Minor Annoyance of Email
Jun 13, 2016
Hillary, Google, and a Rant
May 31, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 31 - Conclusion
May 30, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 30 - Welcome to the Medium
May 29, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 29 - Self-Indulgent Garbage
May 28, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 28 - The Ingenuity of Marketers
May 27, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 27 - Structural Tinkering
May 26, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 26 - Titles Are Hard
May 25, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 25 - We're Not Misogynistic, Reality Is
May 24, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 24 - Free to be Weird
May 23, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 23 - Why Do I Blog?
May 22, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 22 - Super Meat Boy's Instructive Design
May 21, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 21 - Fearful Symmetry
May 20, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 20 - Confessions of a Procrastinating Workaholic
May 19, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 19 - Working Assuming Failure
May 18, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 18 - More Time Travel Password Theorizing
May 17, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 17 - What's Your Time Travel Password?
May 16, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 16 - Memorable Quotes
May 15, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 15 - Harry Potter Compression Algorithms
May 14, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 14 - Your Next First Day
May 13, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 13 - Appearing Skilled and Being Skilled are Very Different
May 12, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 12 - I Just Watched Someone Eat a Sandwich While Blindfolded
May 11, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 11 - From Gaming, Lead Me To Optimality
May 10, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 10 - Splitwise is NP-Complete
May 9, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 9 - Reality is The Null Hypothesis
May 8, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 8 - Shut Up And Write
May 7, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 7 - Shaping Thought Processes
May 6, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 6 - State Space Size is a Garbage Metric
May 5, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 5 - Exploration-Exploitation Part 2: Milk Tea
May 4, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 4 - Exploration-Exploitation Part 1: Multi-armed Bandits
May 3, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 3 - Asynchronous Research and You
May 2, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 2 - Too Tired To Play
May 1, 2016
The Blogging Gauntlet: May 1 - Introduction
Mar 22, 2016
Primes, Riemann Zeta, and Pi, Oh My!
Mar 17, 2016
AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol: Post Match Commentaries
Feb 20, 2016
Lessons Learned After Six Months of Blogging
Feb 11, 2016
A Gentle Introduction to Secure Computation
Jan 28, 2016
Go: More Complicated Than Go Fish
Jan 20, 2016
Mystery Hunt 2016 Wrap-Up
Jan 3, 2016
"How Do You Feel About Grad School?"
Nov 29, 2015
Retrospective on Friendship is Magic Season 5
Nov 2, 2015
Math in Movies: The Friendship Games Geometry Problem
Oct 11, 2015
A Proposition For The Formula to Humor
Sep 24, 2015
How An Audio Play About a Time Traveling Pony Turned Me Into a Fanboy
Sep 9, 2015
The Other Two Envelope Problem
Sep 1, 2015
Why Aren't I Optimizing My Process?
Aug 25, 2015
Perfectly Intelligent Mafia
Aug 23, 2015
Simulating a Biased Coin With a Fair One
Aug 20, 2015
Things I Did In My Khan Academy Internship
Aug 18, 2015
Hello world, again
Nov 26, 2013
Mining on AWS: A small update
Nov 21, 2013
Spending AWS Credit In the Silliest Way Possible