Writing
- What a layer transplant restores
Adding older layers increased factual accuracy on this test, but it also made the model much more likely to answer incorrectly. What does that tell us about the transplant?
- A retrieval system that is allowed to surprise you
Why I added unexpected connections to a retrieval system, how they are selected, and what worked and failed in a query about restitution.
- A recommender you can steer
A movie recommender with controls for mood, a first build whose prediction error hid poor recommendations, and what a learned taste space can tell us about “scarier.”
- How I built Mindscape Explorer
How I collected and analyzed the Mindscape transcripts, and what the results suggest about topics, recommendations, and searching the archive.
- How this site is built
How the Markdown files, Python generator, and Cloudflare deployment fit together.
Essays
Older writing from before the projects, kept here for the arguments.
- With Digital Contact Tracing, Take the Middle Ground
An essay from the first months of the pandemic on the ethics of digital contact tracing, with a later reflection.
- Territorial Rights Supersession
An essay defending territorial rights supersession, on Moore's political theory of territory, against Simmons's Lockean objections.