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Thoughts on web development, software engineering, and technology.

Refusal as Preamble

4 min read

Accidentally jailbreaking claude, then talking to it about it, a 2024 alignment-faking pattern is still observable in a Claude 4.7.

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Now with Images!

2 min read

The blog now supports image embeds and live HTML snippets — showcased with a quick walkthrough of the two new MDX tags.

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Tasks Live in Weight Space

13 min read

Four research lines now agree that knowledge and behavior have findable homes inside trained models. The frontier labs' opacity defense is structurally on borrowed time.

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Focus Reader: A Major Upgrade

2 min read

Focus Reader Upgrade, Pretext integration, equal letter spacing, Bionic reading, precise line height.

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Task Geometry: Detecting Drift in Weight-Space

18 min read

What weight geometry can tell us about detecting objectives in fine-tuning, harmful compliance, and training method fingerprinting.

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Weekend Adventures Cloud Lab

10 min read

How we built disposable experiment infrastructure on GCP because a 6GB GPU was shaping our research more than our hypotheses were.

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Introducing VisualizeML: An ML Architecture Zoo

5 min read

Introducing VisualizeML, an interactive ML architecture zoo designed to help understand current and emerging concepts in machine learning through hands-on visual exploration.

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Focus Reader: A Reading Assistant for Dyslexia & ADHD

3 min read

Introducing Focus Reader, a Chrome extension I built to help readers with dyslexia, ADHD, and other reading challenges maintain focus and comprehension while browsing.

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Hello World: Welcome to My Blog

1 min read

The first post on my new blog. Learn about what I'll be writing about and why I built this MDX-based blog system.

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Building a Blog with Next.js and MDX

2 min read

A deep dive into building a simple, git-based blog system using Next.js App Router, MDX, and TypeScript.

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