AI Fundamentals: Energy-Based Models
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...
How to write a good personal statement for UK universities
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...