An essay garden, growing slowly.
Thinking on the projects I actually built. Some pieces are finished; some are still arguing with themselves.
with lots of
interactive diagrams,
obviously.
interactive diagrams,
obviously.
shubz@orion~/home%grep -l 'all' *.mdx# 13 of 13
shubz@orion~/home%cat ./featured.md# bluedot-unit1
§02Featured
no.01 · ai strategy & policy
A unit on bending the curve
Who shapes artificial intelligence and what 'shape' means.
22 min read↗ read
shubz@orion~/home%ls ./essays/# 13 listed
§03All essays
- What every reading takes for grantedSix assumptions the AGI Strategy readings share, that almost none of them defends.no.02 · ai strategy & policy · 18m↗ read
- The same word, five meaningsHow most AI debates dissolve once you say whose dictionary you're using.no.03 · ai strategy & policy · 14m↗ read
- The civilisation frameFour readings, four ideologies, one quietly shared unit of analysis.no.04 · ai strategy & policy · 16m↗ read
- Tracing a kill chain through the courseOne concrete failure story walked backwards through all five units.no.05 · ai strategy & policy · 20m↗ read
- Two colours and a HadamardZX-calculus as a way of picturing — and actually proving things about — quantum circuits.no.06 · quantum computation · 11m↗ read
- JAYA, improvedImproving a parameter-free optimiser with a fitness trade-off and elitism.no.07 · optimisation & bioinformatics · 12m↗ read
- Pricing the next scarfFive-source forecasting and an LMSR prediction market on fashion micro-trends.no.08 · forecasting & markets · 9m↗ read
- Positive by how muchFour automated methods replicating a pathologist's threshold on immune cell data.no.09 · computational biology · 9m↗ read
- Cells that can't existA standard clustering algorithm, plus nine immunology constraints.no.10 · computational biology · 10m↗ read
- Six engines for one songbookFive base models plus an ensemble on Taylor's full catalogue.no.11 · recommendation · 7m↗ read
- Turing's last equation · June '26How diffusion, usually a smoothing force, can write a pattern from nothing.no.12 · mathematical biology · 8m↗ read
- Predator and prey, on a closed loop · May '26The May figure: Lotka–Volterra, drawn for Robert May.no.13 · mathematical ecology · 4m↗ read
