Archive

All posts, including essays and non-technical writing.

Everything I’ve written, in reverse chronological order. For the technical posts, see the home page.

A Summary On Single Winner Voting Rules

The final part of this series on voting rules.

Are Rated Ballots Better?

Approval, Score, STAR, Highest Median and BTR-Score

Are Ranked Ballots Better?

Ranked ballots (IRV, Borda, Condorcet, and Condorcet-completion methods) still squeeze the median candidate under strategic voting

What’s Wrong With Your Voting System?

Why single-marked ballots, plurality voting, and first-past-the-post are biased against moderates

An Interactive Introduction To Gradient Descent (How LLMs Learn)

Motivating Gradient Descent by hand.

Neural Cellular Automata and Recurrent Architectures

Teaching cellular automata to actually do things

Another Buying versus Renting Housing Calculator

An explanation of how buy vs. rent calculators work, and their limitations.

Getting ONNX Models Working In A Quarto Blog

Learn how to use ONNX models in your Quarto blog with this comprehensive guide.

The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA)

Harold Hotelling’s 1936 Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) forms the theoretical and intuitive foundation for modern embedding prediction techniques, including JEPA models.

A Small JEPA Word Embedding Model

After my prior blog post about SIGReg, I figured I’d train a small Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) model to demonstrate it.

Sketched Isotropic Gaussian Regularization (SIGReg) Explained

The paper “LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics”[1] proposed an interesting method of regularizing latent spaces that I thought I’d…

Motivation To Write

I plan to write about AI, statistics, quantitative finance, economics, and more.