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Hegel argues against 'abstract thinking.'

For this blog: Reorganize notes/blog posts according to a nicer scheme.

This document was generated for a nascent political theory group, on 18 Feb 2026.

This memo was generated for a nascent political theory group, on 19 Feb 2026.

if your problem is interesting, you’ll be helped. if your disarray would be interesting, you will be thrown into chaos. either way, if it’s interesting, something will be changed loss functions and training setups >>> techniques and rules do it either rig…

I usually assume that my audience has approximately all the context that I have.

(Minor spoilers for specific events and people, mostly if you are either actively reading or are liable to remember details.

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I think Vassar may be right.

Very often I read things on the internet, and very often it's in the rough format you're reading right now—a small personal website with essay-length thoughts on anything and everything.

Spent a long time as middle/high-schooler trying to figure out how to create very natural [[evolution]]/DNA in a simulated environment.

The current iteration of this blog is approximately the minimum possible that feels "real" to publish — a collection of Markdown files compiled with Zola into a static site for Cloudflare Pages.

U.S.

Ensemble everything everywhere: Multi-scale aggregation for adversarial robustness shows: Adversarial inputs in image generation are typically specialized to only the last layer of the model, so you can ~entirely defeat them by having the model predict cl…

On this video by Phanimations, keeping my own experience in mind but not referring to it directly.

The principle is this: Maximize the amount of information you gain, and minimize the amount of information your opponent does.

There's been a bit of recent criticism of 'TESCREAL' from a degrowth perspective, particularly by Emile Torres.

I'm realizing that the thing happening to this blog is exactly what DRMacIver described: The easiest way to have this is by writing too many good posts!

I've found it very helpful to use writing as a tool for thought.

About a year ago I realized that I had deeply misunderstood how I was best motivated to do things.

I don't have a good excerpt at hand, but I've been reading Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov's What was Man Created For?

EVE Online is one of the only MMOs in existence which has high-quality economic systems, such that free trade is left unimpeded by the game's logic (and the system is well-designed enough that this doesn't break everything).

Today I talked to a friend who regularly uses Anki about the potential for using spaced repetition to learn good mental motions / thought patterns.

Given the effectiveness of LLMs in generalizing past the training data, one might expect that all the ideas we might care to look for are in the latent space implied by existing ones.

Inspired by JD Pressman.