Goal Hijacking
How Intrinsic Motivation Can Derail Goal-Directed Behavior
The Hammer and the Nuke
Why AI Robustness is a Necessary Condition for AI Alignment
Relics of their Departure
A Chronicle of the Cargo Cults
Turing versus Scherbius
The card game
A Tutorial on Ciphers
From Caesar to a Simplified Enigma
Is the Efficient Market Hypothesis true?
Linearity, Non-Linearity, and a Confounding Conjunction
Intelligent Immunity
What if intelligence evolved within the immune system?
The Alignment Problem
Future AI Overlords vs. Present Corporate Greed
Money laundering and illicit financial flows
The industry that facilitates the world's worst crimes
Affirmative Action's Simplistic Approach
Using a 1-Dimensional Solution for a Multi-Dimensional Problem
The Unseen Threads
A story on independence
Politics in NZ
What Is, What Should Be, and How To Get There
Approximate Reasoning: Computational Rationality in Humans and LLMs
Why 'Flaws' in Thinking Might Be Optimal Strategies for Incomplete Models
The cure for capitalism
More capitalism
Brand new world
A advertisement dystopia
Luck vs skill in poker and life
Why does poker have many rounds?
The Treaty of Wai-terra
A Story of First Contact, Good Intentions, Discrimination and Lost Heritage
Typicality
In high dimensions, typical is unintuitive
The MAP solution is not the best solution?
MAP produces solutions that are not typical
Projection into the typical set: PITS
A new approach to solving inverse problems
Diffusion posterior sampling
A review of recent work
Typical set of arbitrary distributions
Constructing the typical set for arbitrary distributions
Typical set of arbitrary distributions
Proving that the image of the typical set is the typical set of the image
Score functions, denoising and diffusion
Diffusion is just stacked denoising score matching!
White Mars (story prompt)
A colony of White Supremacists on Mars.
The behaviour of neural flows
Neural nets can struggle to learn very simple flows.
Pilot waves
The classical alternative to quantum mechanics?
Graph enumeration
The orderly enumeration of graphs
Language models are all you need
for SMILES-based chemistry
Automatic integration
Like automatic differentiation, but for integration
A tripping point
I tripped over and have something to say about it.
How can you prove anthopogenic global warming?
An individual cannot.
What makes something true?
How does deductive truth (ie math) relate to inductive truth (ie science)?
Youth and truth
I struggled with 'reality'...
Adversarial collaboration contest
Let's have a tolerant debate
Outsourcing Ourselves: When Human Abilities Are Rented, Not Owned
The hidden dangers of delegating life's 'trivial' tasks to technology
Requests for research
Some ideas from my masters.
Hosting on AirBnB
The lives of others
iGEM 2019
Building an enzymatic fuel cell.
Grassy dreams
I am struggling with my masters.
Neuro-inspired computation course
I visited IRCN.
The fable of the caterpillar
A fun intro to my masters topic; abstraction for efficient reinforcment learning.
Immortalized in plastic (story prompt)
What will be left over after humanity? Plastic...
Con-fusion (story prompt)
A fusion of confusion.
The future of environmental sciences?
What could the profession of environmental engineering look like?
Being open minded
Let's take turns reading books
Palm oil in NZ's dairy
tldr; cows are fed palm kernel.
Wish list of psychological metrics
What if we could accurately measure {INSERT}?
The advantages of backward reasoning.
A simple exploration of what can be gained by reasoning backwards from your goal.
Real time bandits
Rewarding a twitter bot is more complicated than I imagined.
Inference via interference
Learning by controlling the propagation speed of signals.
Automated science
Model-based reinforcement learning, symbolic AI, and the limits of efficient learning.
Principles of neural design
Note from reading the book.
ACL2018
Notes and thoughts from attending ACL.
Unsupervised skip connections
How can we use ladder nets in the unsupervised setting?
Nelson lakes, Abel Tasman and Golden bay
Photos from a holiday.
The book of why
A couple of notes
Covering letter for my first PhD proposal
Principles of neural design, automated science, general reinforcement learning
Tax optimisation as an adversarial game
A new perspective on tax law
What are these power-compare websites for?
An example of how to regulate markets to remove inefficiencies.
Visualising dataset alignment
Dataset alignment represented as tensor networks
Policy search engine
Motivating a tool for tracking the effects of policies.
Humble
A tribute to Carl Sagan and to science.
A guide to regulation
If we measure things, we can regulate them, fairly.
Conserved complexity
A conservation law for algorithms?
Deep learning
An intro to deep learining for COMP421.
UBI: Unconditional basic income
Why AI's succeses motivate the need for a UBI
Representations within linear algebra
We can use linear algebra to represent; linear operators, algebras, computations, symmetry and more.
A functional type of non-linear algebra?
Functional programming plus neural network architectures.
Future Telf, 2016
Dreaming about projects
The House of Hope
Volunteering at an orphanage.
Karma and merit
They deserve it
Letter from my future self (a failure)
Don't be lazy...
Divest? Milk and the NZ economy
A letter to Fonterra.
Right beliefs, wrong reasons
It occured to me that my belief in evolution was just as illogical as others belief in god.
Meditation Retreat
I tried doing vipassana meditation for 10 days.