Writing
Technical notes and musings on mathematics, learning, and decision-making.
2026
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Choose the Noise, Keep the Flow
Tech A gentle survey of noise-space policy steering: the VAE connection, five ways to carry value into noise space, a small 2D experiment, and the limits of a frozen decoder.
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What Is Luck?
Musings A moment after a lecture made me rethink luck and the effort behind an opportunity.
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Knowing Is Not Enough
Musings Why reading many papers stopped making me better, and the questions I now ask while reading.
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Proofs as Observations
Musings A question about AI and mathematics: could the proofs we obtain become the starting point for what we understand?
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Choice and Alignment
Tech How social choice theory and Arrow's theorem help explain trade-offs in AI alignment.
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My Visit to Professor Ziad Obermeyer at UC Berkeley
Tech Takeaways from meeting Professor Obermeyer at UC Berkeley School of Public Health — on applied math, interpretability, and mathematical models in healthcare.
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Floating Point Notes in Computers
Tech Notes on how computers represent floating-point numbers and why rounding errors are unavoidable.
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CARLA Simulator on WSL2: Resolving the Docker Vulkan Trap
Tech A guide on setting up a robust Windows-WSL2 hybrid simulation environment for CARLA 0.9.16, alongside a detailed root-cause analysis of Vulkan rendering crashes in WSL2 Docker.
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When CoT Surface Features Transfer
Tech A technical note on measurement non-invariance across math, science, and coding reasoning traces.