excerpt from part 2 of the marble and the chisel
differential equations related to neural network backpropagation
nothing to see here
sculpture with metal arcs against blue sky and full moon
close-up of apples growing on a tree with green leaves
grid of difficult handwritten digits from 0 to 9 on a black background sourced from the MNIST dataset
the school of athens by Raphael

the blog

sign reading "NO TRESPASSING PRIVATE PROPERTY" with a field and trees in the background at sunset
close-up of rocks on the ground with a sunset and trees in the background
a best heaven
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a best heaven

Which one of us will die first?

In the process of me writing this, and of you reading this, we’ve entered into a strange contract. You’ve committed to reading a string of ideas that will never end, and I’ve committed to writing until I can’t anymore. It’s a strange contract because it, by nature, guarantees that one of us will break it. Not by choice, but by death.

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does God trust us?
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does God trust us?

To shape reality as a God might is a uniquely human ambition. We try to make sense of our world as if it were a theater: we author purpose, rehearse all that is godly, and replay acts of creation. From painting, to sculpture, to robotics and genetic editing, nowhere is our divine impulse less quaint than in the development of AI.

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