If I Could Wave a Magic Wand

The recent release of DeepSeek-R1 made a pretty big splash, breaking into the mainstream news cycle in a way that the steady model releases we’ve had for a couple years now did not do. The main focuses of these stories were that 1. it was cheap and 2. it was chinese, forcing the market to […]

(This was originally written as an assignment for my masters studies, I thought it might be interesting, read at your own risk etc.) Are we offsetting or accelerating the green transition? Prices for green energy are coming down [1] and given an assumption that this trend will continue, the price of reliable green energy may […]

I spent a few years designing and partially building a library used for the validation of front office models at a financial institution, and I thought it might be a good idea to write down what I learned during that time. It was my first ever big project and happened to some degree by accident, […]

I was talking recently to a friend about a video essayist I like, (Dan Olson of Folding Ideas) and when asked why I thought he was any good I pondered it for a moment and said “he has a lot of respect for complexity”. On reflection, I think that is one of the virtues I […]

Using more abstract ideas like who is suitable for a role forces the model to consider a vast range of things, I think there is value in a test like that.