Check out my paper LLM-e Guess (2025) that my team at UChicago XLAB put out, evaluating the relationship between algorithmic improvements and compute in advancing LLM capabilities. We classify algorithmic improvements into compute-dependent and compute-independent, and offer recommendations for policymakers.
- Links for April (April 26, 2025)
What I've been reading over the past week or two
- My To-Read List (April 26, 2025)
Books I'm Saving For Later
- College Advice for People Like Me (April 11, 2025)
Thoughts on doing well in school as I finish my time in Chicago.
- Tying Myself to the Mast (March 27, 2025)
Credible and tough-to-reverse precommitment mechanisms are good! I've used one to make sure I post at least every other week.
- AI Spring Break Links (March 22, 2025)
Some links I collected about AI over spring break 2025.
- Miscellaneous Spring Break Links (March 22, 2025)
Links from 2025 spring break that don't fit into any other category.
- Non-AI Policy Spring Break Links (March 22, 2025)
Links I collected over spring break 2025 about non-AI policy.
- Notes on AI Action Plan Submissions (March 22, 2025)
Summaries of several organizations' submissions to the Trump Administration's AI Action Plan.
- Notes on Superintellience Strategy (March 22, 2025)
My notes on the "Mutual Assured AI Malfunction" paper by Dan Hendrycks, Alexandr Wang, and Eric Schmidt.
- Science Spring Break Links (March 22, 2025)
Spring break 2025 links about science.
- Spring Break Links (March 22, 2025)
I collected a bunch of interesting articles over the quarter and finally got to read them during spring break. Here's an index to all the link collections.
- California Recommends the RAISE Act (March 19, 2025)
After vetoing SB1047, Gavin Newsom commissioned a report on what CA's AI governance efforts should look like. The recommendations look a lot like the RAISE Act.
- Building My Own Backend: How I Set Up Email Subscriptions with AWS Lambda (March 17, 2025)
Why pay Substack to use my own domain when I can just spend hours setting up a remote backend?
- NY Introduced Light-Touch Legislation to Keep AI Innovation Responsible! (Alex Bores RAISE Act) (March 5, 2025)
A quick response and analysis of Alex Bores's RAISE Act, which looks like a good way to address risks from frontier AI without stifling startups or impeding innovation.
- Clearing My Tabs (January 5, 2025)
A collection of interesting links and random snapshots of my browser tabs. Expect more of these sporadically.
- The AI Safety Institute Brings People Together (October 13, 2024)
A slightly-polished version of an op-ed style piece I wrote in two hours for a work test.
- NY Should Pass Light-Touch Law to Keep AI Innovation Responsible (October 13, 2024)
Arguing that NY should pick up the torch that CA dropped after Newsom vetoed SB1047.