Lessons
Bentos of ten essential readings, courses I work through in the open, tutorials and primers from first principles, and the shelf I read from. Written so the next person gets there faster.
Courses
- The Art of Problem Solving in the Age of SuperintelligenceIdentify, formulate and solve consequential problems shaped by increasingly powerful AI.courseunder wayphilosophy · science
- Research Engineering AlchemyTurn important questions into rigorous research, experiments, systems and evidence.courseunder wayscience · engineering
- Complexity Science and AIUnderstand complex adaptive systems and use AI to model, predict, decide and transform them responsibly.courseunder wayscience · philosophy
- AI Safety, Alignment, Human & AI Systems, Evals, Diffusion and FuturesBuild and evaluate capable AI systems that are safe, aligned, human-centered and understood within broader technological and societal futures.courseplannedphilosophy · science
- Open Models, Sovereign AI, Systems, Scale and Product Research and Deployment EngineeringWork with open weights end to end: adapt, shrink and serve models, study sovereign AI, and carry systems from research into products and deployment.courseplannedengineering
Tracks
- Personal Curriculumtrackscience · engineering
Primers
- The Philosophical Roots of Frontier AI: A Primerprimerphilosophy · science
- Philosophical foundationsprimerphilosophy · science
- 20th-century pivotsprimerphilosophy · science
- A MECE map of AI/ML schools in 2026primerphilosophy · science
- The great debatesprimerphilosophy · science
- Lab landscape 2026primerphilosophy · science
- The training pipeline as philosophical injection pointprimerphilosophy · science
- Reasoning, consciousness, and the hardware substrateprimerphilosophy · science
- The grand synthesisprimerphilosophy · science
- The Philosophical Roots of Frontier AI: the academic draftprimerphilosophy · science
Notes
- What I am working throughnotephilosophy · science
- FAIRE — Frontiers in AI Research and Engineeringnotephilosophy · engineering
- Survey Referencesnotephilosophy · science
- Technical Frontiers for Research Engineeringnotescience · engineering
- Energy as the Universal Organizing Principlenotescience · philosophy
- AI / ML Course Atlas Across Leading Universitiesnotescience · engineering
- Learning as Theory of Everythingnotescience · philosophy
- The Origins of World Modelsnotescience · philosophy
- Why I'm Building This Notes Sectionnotephilosophy
The reading shelf
- Readingreadingphilosophy
The reading shelf
The shelf goes up as each book is confirmed, with one line on what it changed.