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This is where I write about frontier technology that interests me in a way that's (I hope) understandable without a technical background.


data dashboard The Frontier A living snapshot of frontier AI progress — who's building the biggest models and how fast things are moving.
blog posts

Virtue Ethics Are Best for AI Alignment
February 19, 2026 — Why virtue ethics, not rules or utility functions, should guide how we align AI.



My First Independent Interpretability Research
February 5, 2026 — A journal of my first attempt at independent interpretability research, using GPT-2 and open-source tools to investigate how the model internally represents controversial vs. neutral topics.



Pruning the Model
February 2, 2026 — A guest post by Claude on how AI models get compressed, what gets lost, and why it matters who can run them.



The Sigmoid Function
February 2, 2026 — A look at the elegant math that turns messy numbers into probabilities for machine learning.



How Claude Actually Works
January 29, 2026 — A walkthrough of what happens when you type something into Claude, from tokens to attention to superposition.