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An Interactive Introduction To Gradient Descent (How LLMs Learn)

Motivating Gradient Descent by hand.

Jul 4, 2026

Neural Cellular Automata and Recurrent Architectures

Teaching cellular automata to actually do things

Jun 20, 2026

Another Buying versus Renting Housing Calculator

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

May 28, 2026

Getting ONNX Models Working In A Quarto Blog

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

May 8, 2026

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.

May 4, 2026

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.
Apr 30, 2026

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…
Apr 26, 2026

Motivation To Write

I plan to write about AI, statistics, quantitative finance, economics, and more.
Apr 25, 2026
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