Michal Pandy

This blog post was inspired by Bryan Johnson’s tweet from last March: This tweet caught my eye: “solve death” and “EBMs” in one sentence. I chuckled, remembering my last encounter with Energy-Based Models (EBMs). Many hours of training, diverging loss curves, and an existential crisis later, I felt much closer to the pits of hell than to the...

Remember when blogs were raw, unfiltered windows into someone’s mind? Yeah, those days are long gone. Now we’re drowning in an ocean of SEO-optimized garbage. Every “blog post” reads like it was written by the same soulless AI, regurgitating keywords to climb Google’s rankings. What we used to write in a few sentences now gets dragged out over...

In the last five years, I have reviewed more than twenty personal statements that high school students wrote for admission to UK universities. There were many overlapping issues that I thought would be worth aggregating. A small caveat is that I reviewed engineering and natural sciences statements, so take my tips with a grain of salt if you are...