Cosma Shalizi
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Notebook: Random Feature Regularization bactra.org/notebooks/rand…
Course Announcement: "Statistical Principles of Generative AI" (Fall 2025) bactra.org/weblog/statsge…
Post: On Feral Library Card Catalogs, or, Aware of All Internet Traditions bactra.org/weblog/feral-l…
Post: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2025 bactra.org/weblog/algae-2…
Notebook: Becker Economies, i.e., Microeconomics Based on Random Choice within Constraints bactra.org/notebooks/beck…
Blog post: The Books I Am Not Going to Write bactra.org/weblog/books-i…
Blog post: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2025 bactra.org/weblog/algae-2…
Notebook: "Occam"-Style Bounds for Long Programs bactra.org/notebooks/occa…
Paper: "Large AI models are cultural and social technologies" doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
Notebook: Mesopotamia, especially Sumeria bactra.org/notebooks/meso…
Notebook: "Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models" bactra.org/notebooks/nn-a…
Blog post: The Distortion Is Inherent in the Signal bactra.org/weblog/inheren…
Notebook: W. Ross Ashby, 1903--1972 bactra.org/notebooks/ashb…
Notebook: Random Boolean Networks, Nk Networks bactra.org/notebooks/nk-n…