Blog

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SLT for AI Safety

SLT for AI Safety

2025-07-01

The Sweet Lesson: AI Safety Should Scale With Compute

2025-05-05
Timaeus in 2024

Timaeus in 2024

2025-02-20
Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Daniel Murfet

The Simplest Good

2025-02-02
Brainrot

Brainrot

2025-01-26

Kessler's Second Syndrome

2025-01-26

The Rising Sea

2025-01-25

Timaeus is hiring researchers & engineers

2025-01-17
Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden
o1: A Technical Primer

o1: A Technical Primer

2024-12-09
New o1-like model (QwQ) beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet with only 32B parameters

New o1-like model (QwQ) beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet with only 32B parameters

2024-11-27
Timaeus is hiring!

Timaeus is hiring!

2024-07-12
Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Daniel Murfet
Stagewise Development in Neural Networks

Stagewise Development in Neural Networks

2024-03-20
Jesse Hoogland, Liam Carroll, Daniel Murfet

Timaeus's First Four Months

2024-02-28
Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Daniel Murfet
Generalization, from thermodynamics to statistical physics

Generalization, from thermodynamics to statistical physics

2023-11-30
Announcing Timaeus

Announcing Timaeus

2023-10-22
Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
You’re Measuring Model Complexity Wrong

You’re Measuring Model Complexity Wrong

2023-10-11
Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden

Open Call for Research Assistants in Developmental Interpretability

2023-08-30
Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

2023-Q2

2023-07-16
Towards Developmental Interpretability

Towards Developmental Interpretability

2023-07-12
Jesse Hoogland, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Daniel Murfet, Stan van Wingerden
Approximation is expensive, but the lunch is cheap

Approximation is expensive, but the lunch is cheap

2023-04-19

2023-Q1

2023-04-11

Robustness and Distribution Shifts

2023-04-09
Singularities against the Singularity: Announcing Workshop on Singular Learning Theory and Alignment

Singularities against the Singularity: Announcing Workshop on Singular Learning Theory and Alignment

2023-04-01
Jesse Hoogland, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Daniel Murfet
Empirical risk minimization is fundamentally confused

Empirical risk minimization is fundamentally confused

2023-03-22

MNIST-CIFAR Dominoes

2023-03-17
The shallow reality of 'deep learning theory'

The shallow reality of 'deep learning theory'

2023-02-22
Gradient surfing: the hidden role of regularization

Gradient surfing: the hidden role of regularization

2023-02-06
Spooky action at a distance in the loss landscape

Spooky action at a distance in the loss landscape

2023-01-28

How to Perturb Weights

2023-01-25

Random Walks on Hyperspheres

2023-01-25
Neural networks generalize because of this one weird trick

Neural networks generalize because of this one weird trick

2023-01-18

Beyond Bayes

2023-01-13

You can turn any function into a probability

2023-01-10

Random Walks in Higher Dimensions

2023-01-09

2022 Review

2023-01-08

2023 Planning

2023-01-08

Sum of harmonic series without 9s

2023-01-07

Path dependence

2022-12-16

2022-M11

2022-12-02

2022-M10

2022-10-31

2022-Q3

2022-10-01
No, human brains are not (much) more efficient than computers

No, human brains are not (much) more efficient than computers

2022-09-06
A Starter-kit for Rationality Space

A Starter-kit for Rationality Space

2022-09-01

2022-Q2

2022-08-05

2022-M2

2022-03-06

2022-M3

2022-03-06

2021 Review

2022-01-20

2022 Planning

2022-01-20

2022

2022-01-20

2022-M1

2022-01-01

Introduction to Atomic Workflows

2021-12-01

Atomic Workflows

2021-12-01

12. Be radically honest and transparent

2021-11-07

The Green Mortgage

2021-10-31

Post Rhetoric

2021-10-23

40. Welcome the free lunch - Ask favors

2021-10-17

1. Stop following your heart

2021-10-10

18. Use strategic isolation

2021-10-10

The Laws of Learning

2021-10-10

2021-Q3

2021-10-02

5. So much depends on character - let it speak for itself

2021-09-27

Where is Europe's News

2021-09-21

High intensity interval work—how to organize the work day

2021-09-20

Death by computer

2021-09-12

UBI is meaning enough

2021-09-01

Reaction to Europe's Lost Startups

2021-07-19

2021-Q2

2021-07-12

4. Always say enough - ask more than necessary

2021-04-11

Memorizing geography

2021-03-16

3. Align or differentiate your intentions - Build a monopoly

2021-02-26

2021 Planning

2021-02-26

2021

2021-02-26

2. Trust to be trusted

2021-02-16

1. Choose a boss who lets you shine

2021-02-14

The 48 Laws of Cooperation

2021-02-14

Memorizing sequences

2021-02-06

The transience of health science

2021-01-31

Introduction to the 48 Laws of Cooperation

2021-01-29

Day of maintenance

2021-01-19

Fermi questions

2021-01-16

Memorizing units

2020-12-27

Memorizing numbers

2020-12-16

The Keys to Memory

2020-12-16

Atomic SRS

2020-12-11

Why write?

2020-12-08

Atomic Zettelkasten

2020-12-05

Reviews

1998-08-20