Justin Donaldson, Ph.D.

In 2017, Hurricane Maria knocked out three Baxter plants in Puerto Rico, and hospitals across the US suddenly couldn’t get saline bags.

Why would meaning stop at three?

swollm — SmolLM2-1.7B with the Turnstyle layer bolted on.

Meaning, Osgood found, is mostly three numbers. — paraphrasing The Measurement of Meaning (Osgood, Suci & Tannenbaum, 1957) Charles E.

Don't draw so close to the heat, you forget you must eat What a conservation theorem says about superintelligence — and why the most beautiful version of the answer is the one to distrust.

An AI read 34,000 FDA electrosurgical device descriptions and drew a map.

The Setup I wanted to see if two AI models could have a genuine technical debate — and whether one could be argued into conceding a point.

Semantic Proprioception: Teaching Data to Understand Itself Just as proprioception lets you sense where your body is in space without looking, semantic proprioception gives data the ability to understand its own internal structure.

Intelligence Chases Chaos Fractals have an astonishing property: their dimensionality is only a fraction of the space they inhabit.

Book Bot When AI Meets Family Legacy: A New Way to Interface with Investment Literature In an era where ChatGPT makes headlines and generative AI seems to be everywhere, traditional books might appear antiquated.

TODO This post introduces a simple tool, called rumpus that helps me keep track of TODOs, etc. using the macos menubar.

Quarto Example I’m creating a new blog, and was surveying the various options.