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2026

May 2, 2026 Your coding agent is under-specified
Apr 23, 2026 The loop is the product
Apr 21, 2026 The verification asymmetry
Apr 19, 2026 Supervised learning and reinforcement learning are the same objective
Apr 18, 2026 Similarity is (almost) all you need
Apr 17, 2026 Hello again

2019

Aug 4, 2019 A unified view of graph traversal: BFS, Dijkstra, A* are the same algorithm

2017

Jun 26, 2017 Understand PyTorch code in 10 minutes
Jan 21, 2017 Seven textbook models are one linear-Gaussian model
Jan 9, 2017 The many incarnations of computational graphs, linearization, and dynamic programming

2016

Dec 16, 2016 An intuitive understanding of variational autoencoders without any formula
Dec 15, 2016 Most probabilistic models are one model in costumes
Nov 29, 2016 An introduction to Neural Networks without any formula
Oct 25, 2016 How to work with Jupyter Notebook on a remote machine (Linux)
Oct 16, 2016 Theano workflow
Oct 15, 2016 How to Install Theano on Windows 10 64b to try deep learning on GPUs
Jan 15, 2016 The pyramid principle for writing clearly

2015

Nov 23, 2015 How to get the job you want with no experience, lessons from top copywriters
Nov 5, 2015 How to get the job you want after graduation in 7 steps
Oct 11, 2015 10 skills PhDs master that give them an edge over other job seekers
Jun 14, 2015 First-principles reasoning (a note on separating ideas from the people who held them)

2014

Dec 31, 2014 impostor syndrome or nonlinear life?
Dec 31, 2014 nonlinearity, why it makes sense to think big