diff --git a/content/colophon.md b/content/colophon.md index c0154db..ab248b5 100644 --- a/content/colophon.md +++ b/content/colophon.md @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ history: ::: dropcap A personal website is not a publication. It is a position. A publication presents work -in a finalized, immutable state, and carries with it some sort of declaration - "this is my most polished and prized work!"; +in a finalized, immutable state, and carries with it some sort of declaration - "this is my most polished and prized work!"; a position is something you inhabit, argue from, and continuously revise in public. This page explains the design decisions forming my broader **position** and why they took the form they did. @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ shrunken full caps, and ligatures prevent collisions in letter pairs like *fi* a The UI and headers are Fira Sans. Variation is good, and moreover, humanist sans are rather ubiquitous (we have Frutiger to thank for this fact!) - perhaps I am making some type of statement by not choosing one of the more corporation variations of it, like the dreaded Calibri and Tahoma you might recognize from Microslop (formerly known as *Microsoft*) products. Code uses Jetbrains Mono, which is simply the font that I use within my editor. Code should look like code, simple as that. -The monochrome palette is an application of restraint grounded in my studies of Tools for Thought. +The monochrome palette is an application of restraint grounded in my studies of Tools for Thought. Color is often used to do work that typography should do, such as demonstrating hierarchy, creating emphasis, etc. When those functions are handled by weight, size, and spacing instead^[Color and saturation/hue are actually well known to be less effective than other means of distinguishment. I refer you to Tufte's *The Visual Display of Quantitative Information* for more.], color becomes available for the things it cannot be substituted for — and on a site with no data visualizations @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ The principle underlying all of these choices is the same one underlying the sit I will never use AI to write, whether for my personal communications with anyone or for pieces on this website. I take this extremely seriously - writing is religious in severity to me. The writing on this website is wholly human and wholly my own, to the extent that any writing can be. ::: -Much of the code that comprises the build system of this website was created in collaboration with AI. Rather than "vibe coding" proper, this was the result of an intensive engineering process where AI and I were equals in collaboration. Notably, all of the major architectural choices, design decisions, idiosyncracies, and elements of the tech stack were chosen entirely by me, and AI systems were only used to automate production of some (but not all) of the code that was required. +Much of the code that comprises the build system of this website was created in collaboration with AI. Rather than "vibe coding" proper, this was the result of an intensive engineering process where AI and I were equals in collaboration. Notably, all of the major architectural choices, design decisions, idiosyncracies, and elements of the tech stack were chosen entirely by me, and AI systems were only used to automate production of some (but not all) of the code that was required. The commit history, of course, is available for you to view and licensed accordingly - see **No Tracking** for more. @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ by omission. The Content Security Policy prevents any script not explicitly whit from executing. The whitelist is short.] The Hetzner VPS that provides this content runs only open source software, and my machines use *almost exclusively*^[It is nearly impossible to run an entirely free system, but in approximation, it is actually wonderfully easy.] the same. The code is licensed under MIT and hosted on a [self-hosted Forgejo instance](https://git.levineuwirth.org/neuwirth/levineuwirth.org) at this domain, with a [GitHub mirror](https://github.com/levineuwirth/levineuwirth.org); you are welcome -to inspect it, fork it, or, more broadly, do whatever you please with it. +to inspect it, fork it, or, more broadly, do whatever you please with it. ### Living Documents @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ The point of all this is simple: when you read something on this site, you shoul The amount of influences on this website is immense, and cannot be detailed in the fullest extent. Every other webpage that I have visited, whether beautiful or pitiful, has evoked some type of reaction or response in me, and that response has played some role, even if minute, in the design of this website. I can point to Tufte's influence on many of my design choices, and for the introduction to Tufte, I am thankful to CSCI1377 at Brown. I am thankful to the many other courses I took in my undergrad that influenced how I interact or ideologically view visualizations, networks, systems, etc. -The tradition of the personal website is one that is built on a sense of community and interaction. I am thankful to everyone else who has a personal website and shares their content with the world. I am also particularly greatful to the open source and broader open culture movements, who have given me and the world so much. This website would not exist without you - and I wouldn't be the person I am without your influence - what a role model! +The tradition of the personal website is one that is built on a sense of community and interaction. I am thankful to everyone else who has a personal website and shares their content with the world. I am also particularly greatful to the open source and broader open culture movements, who have given me and the world so much. This website would not exist without you - and I wouldn't be the person I am without your influence - what a role model! --- diff --git a/content/index.md b/content/index.md index 55244b8..ed2db33 100644 --- a/content/index.md +++ b/content/index.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ For as long as I can remember, I have believed that the deepest understanding co You have found the working library of a mind that takes that spirit seriously. Here live research papers and living essays, compositions and scores, poetry and prose, and the countless smaller investigations that refuse to fit neatly into any one category. The documents here are far from immutable; they grow, are revised, accumulate footnotes and second thoughts. I welcome you to all of it. -This website is *not* an academic homepage, nor a blog, nor a portfolio — though it borrows from each. It is something I built because no existing format could hold what I wanted to make. I carry a copy of *The Brothers Karamazov* everywhere; I compose symphonies and concerti for orchestras; I am currently a MARS V AI safety research fellow with CAISH and FLI, an independent contractor doing work on frontier LLMs, and a graduate student in computer science and engineering at DTU. These facts coexist in one life, and this is the place where they coexist on one shelf. +This website is *not* an academic homepage, nor a blog, nor a portfolio — though it borrows from each. It is something I built because no existing format could hold what I wanted to make. I carry a copy of *The Brothers Karamazov* everywhere; I compose symphonies and concerti for orchestras; I am currently a MARS V AI safety research fellow with CAISH and FLI, an independent contractor doing work on frontier LLMs, and a graduate student in computer science and engineering at DTU. These facts coexist in one life, and this is the place where they coexist on one shelf. ::: {.hp-latin lang="la"} *Te accipio, hospes benignus.* diff --git a/content/me/index.md b/content/me/index.md index 4640938..26dc783 100644 --- a/content/me/index.md +++ b/content/me/index.md @@ -21,38 +21,38 @@ history: --- -How does one resolve the age-old dilemma of earnest self description? Is any such act of description overly humiliating and reductive in nature? Hubristic and egotistical, on the contrary? I have pondered over this subject for years, my greatest conclusion being that my actions and character should be the pinnacle of how I am described, for these form the pinnacle of what constitutes me. +How does one resolve the age-old dilemma of earnest self description? Is any such act of description overly humiliating and reductive in nature? Hubristic and egotistical, on the contrary? I have pondered over this subject for years, my greatest conclusion being that my actions and character should be the pinnacle of how I am described, for these form the pinnacle of what constitutes me. -I understand that this presents an issue: casual surfers of this website, curious readers of my research or other output, and even, believe it or not, myself, for my own personal reference on sporadic occasion, would benefit from an attempted summary in words of who I am. I am obliged to deliver, and such a summary follows. +I understand that this presents an issue: casual surfers of this website, curious readers of my research or other output, and even, believe it or not, myself, for my own personal reference on sporadic occasion, would benefit from an attempted summary in words of who I am. I am obliged to deliver, and such a summary follows. --- ## Basic Traits -I have always thought that the defining characteristic of what makes Levi *Levi*, in so far as I or anyone have such a thing^[My chief concern throughout this document, as established in the introduction, is establishing a balance between reductivity and egotism. The broader conclusion I have come to? Human lives and persona cannot be mapped onto human language. Interesting!], is the combination of my **curiosity** and **creativity**. This is not a curiosity that manifests purely in the abstract. I am certainly interested in abstract things, rabbit holes, all-nighters composed of study, you name it - but I am equally curious in a more tangible sense, one that invokes the process of creation. Much of the substance of my life has been the result of various incarnations of this latter form of curiosity combined with a creativity whose origin I cannot explain. In a concise way, I could state it as follows: I generally feel a strong urge to produce and put my own spin on *anything* that I consume. +I have always thought that the defining characteristic of what makes Levi *Levi*, insofar as I or anyone have such a thing^[My chief concern throughout this document, as established in the introduction, is establishing a balance between reductivity and egotism. The broader conclusion I have come to? Human lives and persona cannot be mapped onto human language. Interesting!], is the combination of my **curiosity** and **creativity**. This is not a curiosity that manifests purely in the abstract. I am certainly interested in abstract things, rabbit holes, all-nighters composed of study, you name it - but I am equally curious in a more tangible sense, one that invokes the process of creation. Much of the substance of my life has been the result of various incarnations of this latter form of curiosity combined with a creativity whose origin I cannot explain. In a concise way, I could state it as follows: I generally feel a strong urge to produce and put my own spin on *anything* that I consume. ### Greatest Strength and Flaw The realization of this curiosity/creativity complex yields what I find simultaneously as my greatest strength and my most detrimental flaw. I can be relentlessly ambitious and work persistently towards goals that others might dismiss as too far-sighted, impossible, etc. - but I also consistently bite off more than I can chew and overwork myself. I'm at least aware of the latter fact and try to counter it by introducing work that I enjoy, such as work on this website! ### Personality -For what it is worth, I am an **INTP**. Whether or not this means anything is up to your interpretation. In other, perhaps more grounded descriptions (ie those from my fellow humans) I am usually thought to be neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic, one of those introverts who is really an extrovert with a *limited* social battery, a particularly animated and energetic person when the focus is something about which I care, and often I am found to be deep in thought (or mental composition of music). +For what it is worth, I am an **INTP**. Whether or not this means anything is up to your interpretation. In other, perhaps more grounded descriptions (i.e., those from my fellow humans) I am usually thought to be neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic, one of those introverts who is really an extrovert with a *limited* social battery, a particularly animated and energetic person when the focus is something about which I care, and often I am found to be deep in thought (or mental composition of music). ### Aphantasia -I have [**complete aphantasia**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia), which means that I cannot visualize anything in my mind. My mind works entirely off of linguistic and indescribable "visualizations." This has had a profound impact on my life. I did not realize that others could visualize actual images in their mind (I thought that when people spoke of this, they were being highly metaphorical and or poetic) until I was in high school. +I have [**complete aphantasia**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia), which means that I cannot visualize anything in my mind. My mind works entirely off of linguistic and indescribable "visualizations." This has had a profound impact on my life. I did not realize that others could visualize actual images in their mind (I thought that when people spoke of this, they were being highly metaphorical and or poetic) until I was in high school. I believe that my aphantasia is the reason that I am so affected by words (both in prose and poetry) and music as not only mere artistic forms but means of utmost expression. I do not think that I would find such necessity for creative expression through these means without my aphantasia, and as such, I prefer living with aphantasia to living the normal way. ### Favorites -[I GENERALLY DO NOT HAVE A FAVORITE X OR Y.]{.smallcaps} I take two primary issues with the notion of "favorite" as it is used in coloquial American English: first, that one's "favorite X" is often conflated, whether explicitly or implicitly by said one, with "the best X." For any instance where I *do* have have a favorite, I do *not* make any assertion that my favorite X is necessarily the best X out of all possible choices of X. Second, I believe that the action of selecting a favorite is inherently reductive and forces comparisons that are invalid. We are not computers, and we should not be organizing everything into tensors for comparison and floating point operations. Let us enjoy diversity and variance for what they are rather than try to reduce everything to a mere favorite! +[I GENERALLY DO NOT HAVE A FAVORITE X OR Y.]{.smallcaps} I take two primary issues with the notion of "favorite" as it is used in coloquial American English: first, that one's "favorite X" is often conflated, whether explicitly or implicitly by said one, with "the best X." For any instance where I *do* have a favorite, I do *not* make any assertion that my favorite X is necessarily the best X out of all possible choices of X. Second, I believe that the action of selecting a favorite is inherently reductive and forces comparisons that are invalid. We are not computers, and we should not be organizing everything into tensors for comparison and floating point operations. Let us enjoy diversity and variance for what they are rather than try to reduce everything to a mere favorite! -#### The one exception +#### The one exception With this said, there is one major exception, and that is my favorite book: *The Brothers Karamazov*, by [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky). I cannot understate the impact that this book had on my life, and it is thus my favorite; I carry it with me essentially at all times, and reread at least *some* section of it nearly every day. ## Education -### University +### University I graduated from **Brown University** in May 2026 with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science. This autumn I begin my graduate studies in Computer Science at the Technical University of Denmark. I chose these areas because their generality and broad interaction with abstraction captivated me in a notable way. This fact is still true to this day - I have never felt significant burnout, nor felt that I had exhausted some finite supply of interest and curiosity in my chosen fields. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The bulk of what I have learned has been on an individual basis rather than in a ### Study Habits -A core element of my autodidacticism and one that I write about with frequency is what I call *metalearning* - the notion that frequent study of *how* to study itself is a worthy, if not necessary, undertaking. To this end, I try to keep my own study habits somewhere at the midpoint between the relevent cognitive psychology literature and my own intuition of what works best for me. +A core element of my autodidacticism and one that I write about with frequency is what I call *metalearning* - the notion that frequent study of *how* to study itself is a worthy, if not necessary, undertaking. To this end, I try to keep my own study habits somewhere at the midpoint between the relevent cognitive psychology literature and my own intuition of what works best for me. I broadly adopt technologies that assist me in learning, and generally do so without reservations. I believe in the capability of (ethically designed and well-intentioned) technology to augment the power of human intellect. I firmly believe that the technologies that I use, both the ones that through societial usage are taken for granted, and those that are perhaps more novel, strongly augment my ability to think, learn, and create. The key word in the previous sentence is **augment**, and the delineation between **augmentation** and **automation** is a crucial one. I will *not* use technologies such as Generative AI to automate away my cognitive processes. I believe that synergistic augmentation is the way forward in the current age of much technological excitement, rather than automation with subsequent deprication of what it means to be human. @@ -70,20 +70,20 @@ I broadly adopt technologies that assist me in learning, and generally do so wit ## Computer Science and Mathematics -I fell in love with computation at a young age. I have been fascinated, inspired, and motivated by the beauty, elegance, and universality of the subject for as long as I can remember. In elementary school I was writing basic programs and text-based games. In high school, I tried to write programs to do my homework, albeit in Java. I recall successfully implementing a statistical suite from scratch with nothing but `java.util.Scanner`, and, later, failing to successfully write a program to do my tedious AP Calculus homework. +I fell in love with computation at a young age. I have been fascinated, inspired, and motivated by the beauty, elegance, and universality of the subject for as long as I can remember. In elementary school I was writing basic programs and text-based games. In high school, I tried to write programs to do my homework, albeit in Java. I recall successfully implementing a statistical suite from scratch with nothing but `java.util.Scanner`, and, later, failing to successfully write a program to do my tedious AP Calculus homework. I fell in love with Artificial Intelligence during my first semester at Brown. My first computer science final project was to write an implementation of generalized Connect 4, including an AI player. The AI player was simple, and "AI" in this context refers to the grand scheme of the field, not the coloquial usage referring exclusively to large language models / generative models. After much hard work, when I finished the project, I decided to see if my creation could beat me in a game of Connect 4. (I had studied previously some strategies in Connect 4, in the hopes of consistently beating my high school friends, so I was fairly confident in my abilities being above-average.) Needless to say, my creation immediately defeated me decisively. The next morning this result was reproduced several more times. This absolutely amazed me, and provided me with an undying capitvation that has yet to be exhausted. -**Mathematics** and I have a more complicated history. I always loved mathematics in school, yet it was consistently the lowest grade on my report card. Where I really fell in love with mathematics was when I began to learn algebra and venture into the realm of the abstract. The idea of a function was captivating to me as an 8th grader. (It is still captivating to me to this day, somehow.) I entered Brown thinking that I preferred and intended to study physics, but quickly learned that the mathematics underneath the Physics was what I truly enjoyed. In my sophomore year, I "hopped down the street", so to speak^[Kassar House, home of Brown's department of mathematics, is just down the street (George Street, to be precise) from Barus & Holley, which *used* to be most notable as the home of the physics department.] and haven't looked back since. +**Mathematics** and I have a more complicated history. I always loved mathematics in school, yet it was consistently the lowest grade on my report card. Where I really fell in love with mathematics was when I began to learn algebra and venture into the realm of the abstract. The idea of a function was captivating to me as an 8th grader. (It is still captivating to me to this day, somehow.) I entered Brown thinking that I preferred and intended to study physics, but quickly learned that the mathematics underneath the Physics was what I truly enjoyed. In my sophomore year, I "hopped down the street", so to speak^[Kassar House, home of Brown's department of mathematics, is just down the street (George Street, to be precise) from Barus & Holley, which *used* to be most notable as the home of the physics department.] and haven't looked back since. -I have long said to friends that one does not "do mathematics," but rather "mathematics does you," and this encapsulates how I feel about mathematics better than anything else I can think of at the moment. Mathematics is endlessly creative and has, to me, unlimited intrigue. I vividly remember learning about the [Sylow Theorems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylow_theorems) in my 3rd semester abstract algebra course - my first math upper level - and feeling a sense of absolute wonder and beauty at the proof, yes, but moreso at the grandeur of human genius - that *we* were able to derive this result, and so many subsequent ones, and that I had the power to understand it just the same!^[Which was perhaps *not* evident based off my score for the final exam of that course, but I digress.] +I have long said to friends that one does not "do mathematics," but rather "mathematics does you," and this encapsulates how I feel about mathematics better than anything else I can think of at the moment. Mathematics is endlessly creative and has, to me, unlimited intrigue. I vividly remember learning about the [Sylow Theorems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylow_theorems) in my 3rd semester abstract algebra course - my first math upper level - and feeling a sense of absolute wonder and beauty at the proof, yes, but moreso at the grandeur of human genius - that *we* were able to derive this result, and so many subsequent ones, and that I had the power to understand it just the same!^[Which was perhaps *not* evident based off my score for the final exam of that course, but I digress.] ### Computer Systems -I have been interested in the low level since I began to study computation. Getting closer to the hardware was a constant goal as I learned Java in high school. Later, when I took my first real "Systems"^[Brown makes a real distinction about what is "Systems" and what is not "Systems", much more so than I would. But, the effect of having your undergrad take place within a *particularly* semantically concerned department sticks.] course, I felt like I was a wizard, learning the ways of some magic. Computers are wonderfully beautiful and powerful machines, and the systems that they are are nothing short of exquisite. Many folks seem to think that those of the system-minded type are some hardcore, late-night hacker type devoid of social life, romance, etc. I think quite the opposite: those of us who love systems love beauty and elegance, and those who opt to write Javascript whilst blatantly refusing to learn about how the systems they use work are the ones with deficits to fill! +I have been interested in the low level since I began to study computation. Getting closer to the hardware was a constant goal as I learned Java in high school. Later, when I took my first real "Systems"^[Brown makes a real distinction about what is "Systems" and what is not "Systems", much more so than I would. But, the effect of having your undergrad take place within a *particularly* semantically concerned department sticks.] course, I felt like I was a wizard, learning the ways of some magic. Computers are wonderfully beautiful and powerful machines, and the systems that they are nothing short of exquisite. Many folks seem to think that those of the system-minded type are some hardcore, late-night hacker type devoid of social life, romance, etc. I think quite the opposite: those of us who love systems love beauty and elegance, and those who opt to write Javascript whilst blatantly refusing to learn about how the systems they use work are the ones with deficits to fill! ## Music -Music is core to who I am. I have played trumpet, my primary instrument, for the majority of my life. I also play piano, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, and a bit of drums. More important to me than playing, however, is composition. I feel that my compositions are fundamentally a part of me, an extension of the person that I am. +Music is core to who I am. I have played trumpet, my primary instrument, for the majority of my life. I also play piano, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, and a bit of drums. More important to me than playing, however, is composition. I feel that my compositions are fundamentally a part of me, an extension of the person that I am. ### Composition @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Music composition is thus **chiefly distinct** from other forms of creative acti ## Interests -I have many interests, and while they can be *temporarily* all-consuming, I try not to let any singular interest of mine define me.^[In the past I allowed myself to be more "defined" by my passions, at least in my self-image. (I can't control how *you* define me, but I can control how *I* define me, after all, and *that* is to me the most important definition.) These days I believe that if such an all-encompassing definition is necessary it must be built from a higher level of abstraction than any singular interest - rather, what are the specific qualities that are brought to any interest? It is not the fact that I do many things but the manners in which and reasons for which I do them that should be the basis of the definition. *Exiting Modernity* talks at great length along these lines.] (The distinction I am making between "interest" and "passion" should be apparent here.) Some of my interests are chiefly **sporadic**; every once in a a while (a while might be a month, a year, etc.), I find myself immersed in and unable to escape the interest for a week or two. Other interests are more constant in my life. My foremost interest is perhaps a metainterest - I'm interested in increasing the variance within my life's experiences, and thus interests that are iterative and provide me the opportunity to do previously unknown things and expand my horizons are generally the most potent to me. +I have many interests, and while they can be *temporarily* all-consuming, I try not to let any singular interest of mine define me.^[In the past I allowed myself to be more "defined" by my passions, at least in my self-image. (I can't control how *you* define me, but I can control how *I* define me, after all, and *that* is to me the most important definition.) These days I believe that if such an all-encompassing definition is necessary it must be built from a higher level of abstraction than any singular interest - rather, what are the specific qualities that are brought to any interest? It is not the fact that I do many things but the manners in which and reasons for which I do them that should be the basis of the definition. *Exiting Modernity* talks at great length along these lines.] (The distinction I am making between "interest" and "passion" should be apparent here.) Some of my interests are chiefly **sporadic**; every once in a while (a while might be a month, a year, etc.), I find myself immersed in and unable to escape the interest for a week or two. Other interests are more constant in my life. My foremost interest is perhaps a metainterest - I'm interested in increasing the variance within my life's experiences, and thus interests that are iterative and provide me the opportunity to do previously unknown things and expand my horizons are generally the most potent to me. ### Foreign Languages @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ I am extremely interested in **Foreign Language**, and most fortunate to be a na #### Spanish -During the last five years of my time in public high school, I took 5 courses in Spanish - the first two were *required*, and the latter three were *pseudorequired* - New York State requires only a basic Spanish credit for graduation, but to have any true competitive college application, one really must take a foreign language throughout. Regardless of this fact, my time in public high school taught me essentially **no Spanish**. Rather, I decided that learning Spanish was worth my time in my senior year, after our class ranks had been finalized, yielding a lighter workload as a result. During the day for the rest of the year until I graduated, whenever I had free time or nothing worthwhile to do, which was often, I would read exclusively in Spanish. I made an effort for the first time to immerse myself in Spanish and it worked well. This was the moment that I fell in love with the *process* of learning languages. +During the last five years of my time in public high school, I took 5 courses in Spanish - the first two were *required*, and the latter three were *pseudorequired* - New York State requires only a basic Spanish credit for graduation, but to have any true competitive college application, one really must take a foreign language throughout. Regardless of this fact, my time in public high school taught me essentially **no Spanish**. Rather, I decided that learning Spanish was worth my time in my senior year, after our class ranks had been finalized, yielding a lighter workload as a result. During the day for the rest of the year until I graduated, whenever I had free time or nothing worthwhile to do, which was often, I would read exclusively in Spanish. I made an effort for the first time to immerse myself in Spanish and it worked well. This was the moment that I fell in love with the *process* of learning languages. #### Chinese During my first year at Brown I took Mandarin Chinese. It was a great challenge compared to Spanish, and I enjoyed it as such. I regret that I have not had time to keep up the practice since - I intended to continue into third semester Chinese and beyond, but unfortunately my schedule became too busy for that intention to become reality. Mandarin is, perhaps curiously, though perhaps not so curiously, the *only* language I have ever studied where reading was not the easiest skill for me to acquire. (In fact, for Mandarin, it was the second-hardest, only after writing.) @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ I decided to make a push to learn German, which I had long intended but never ta I have long had some notion of a "Linguistic Bucket List" - a collection of languages I intend to learn, whether for literacy or for true fluency over the course of my life. A subset of that follows: - **French.** French is 100% the next language I will learn after my German is at a level such that study becomes more passive. -- **Russian.** The literature is exceptional, and thus I feel obliged. +- **Russian.** The literature is exceptional, and thus I feel obliged. - **Latin & Greek.** I am interested in *reading* the ancient texts in these languages, and perhaps pursuing Greek further, as it is part of my heritage. - **Sanskrit & Pali.** I am *also* interested in *reading* the ancient texts of these languages. @@ -138,6 +138,6 @@ I am fascinated by and interested in flora and fauna of all types, but as for th ### Running -My sport of choice these days is distance running. I am particularly fond of trailrunning, but more frequently run on roads, trails, or, most regrettably (though only when *absolutely* necessary), the treadmill. I find running to be a juxtaposition of soothing and exhilarating. Watching the sun rise over the various bays and beaches of Rhode Island is incredibly soothing. Working your way straight up a ridge of bedrock in the midst of a heat wave is absolutely exhilarating. +My sport of choice these days is distance running. I am particularly fond of trailrunning, but more frequently run on roads, trails, or, most regrettably (though only when *absolutely* necessary), the treadmill. I find running to be a juxtaposition of soothing and exhilarating. Watching the sun rise over the various bays and beaches of Rhode Island is incredibly soothing. Working your way straight up a ridge of bedrock in the midst of a heat wave is absolutely exhilarating. I don't use strava, nor an electronic watch, nor do I really pay much attention to my times. This takes away from what is to me the great joy in running - being disconnected, in tune with my thoughts and my bodily perceptions, and enjoying the only moment that there is - NOW. diff --git a/content/work.md b/content/work.md index c942860..f462704 100644 --- a/content/work.md +++ b/content/work.md @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ settle it are written by the party under suspicion. [VerInf](https://github.com/JamesPetrie/VerInf), a Future of Life Institute project led by James Petrie, proves LLM inference in zero knowledge with no trusted setup by bounding the *unexplained information* in an output stream rather than re-running the -computation. I have contributed the dry-run profiler (manifest contract, cost model, +computation. I have contributed the dry-run profiler (manifest contract, cost model, execution DAG, partition scorecard) and an RMSNorm cost-model correction. My current work is on proving multi-GPU, which is the ceiling on model scale, context length, and mixture-of-experts breadth.