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What's Your P(Chihuahua)?
·6203 words·30 mins
Why the artificial superintelligence alignment problem may be a domestication problem: not whether ASI hates us, but whether it can make us smaller, safer, and easier to keep.

Searching Without Being Searched: The Architecture of Oblivious Prefix Trees
·5970 words·29 mins
A rigorous analysis of Prefix Trees (Tries) and Radix Trees, evolving from memory hierarchy constraints to cryptographically secure Data-Oblivious architectures.

The Mathematics of Dense Vector Search
·11366 words·54 mins
A comprehensive deep dive into the mathematical foundations and algorithms of modern vector search, including HNSW, DiskANN, Quantization, and the Curse of Dimensionality.

Wiggle while you work: using jittering to augment object tracking in low fps videos
·1434 words·7 mins
Dealing with low fps video can make re-identification of individuals between frames more difficult as the potential targets tend to “jump” between frames in a way that throws off trackers. Here, I show how applying a Gaussian jitter or wiggle to artificially increase the fps of the video can improve tracking.

Quantum Computers: Mathieu's Equations and the Quadrupole Ion Traps
·6095 words·29 mins
Of great use to physics, including one of the promising paths towards quantum computers, is the ion trap. Though there are various models in use, we focus here on Paul-style models. To do so, we need to understand Mathieu’s equations and their corresponding solutions in enough detail to grasp the function of the Paul ion trap. In this report, we explore the behavior of Mathieu’s equation and its solutions for the Paul ion trap.
Lil' LLM: Part 1
·2809 words·14 mins
In this first part in a multipart series, we build a little model LLM that can construct basic phrases and display the effects of temperature. This first version doesn’t use neural networks but does demonstrate some fundamentals of LLM terminology.