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The Policy: Q-Learning vs Policy Learning

In The Policy, SIGMA doesn’t work like most modern AI systems. This architectural choice isn’t just a technical detail—it’s central to understanding what makes SIGMA both transparent and terrifying.

Two Approaches to Decision-Making …

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The AI Course: Everything is Utility Maximization

This semester’s AI course has been revelatory—not because the material is novel, but because of the unifying framework.

The organizing principle: intelligence is utility maximization under uncertainty.

This simple idea connects everything from …

Working memory as an inductive bias

This blog post is from a chat I had with a ChatGPT, which can be found here and here.

I’m not sure if this is a good blog post, but I’m posting it anyway. It’s remarkable how quickly you can slap stuff like this together, and …

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Discovering ChatGPT: Reconnecting with AI Research

I finally noticed ChatGPT this week. Everyone’s been talking about it for weeks, but I was buried in cancer treatment, chemo recovery, surgery prep, and thesis work on Weibull distributions.

When I finally tried it, my reaction wasn’t …

Femtograd: Like Micrograd, But Worse