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  • Oct 3, 2026

    Everyone Agrees with Me

    How our feeds build echo chambers that follow us into what we believe, who we trust, and how we treat the people we love.

  • Nov 10, 2025

    Winning the Metric, Losing the Point

    Rethinking success in a world optimized for metrics instead of meaning

  • May 18, 2025

    Policy Optimization Algorithms for Alignment

    Steering language models toward safer outputs…

  • May 12, 2025

    Gaming the System: Understanding Reward Hacking in LLM Training

    How clever shortcuts can derail our smartest algorithms, and what is being done about it

  • Mar 23, 2025

    Betting on Your Attention: Multi-Armed Bandits for Recommendation Systems

    Meet the efficient mathematical gamblers working behind the scenes that predict your desires before they form. Multi-armed Bandits are why you probably can’t stop scrolling.

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