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Oct 2023
Research Portfolio
Announcing a new way to fund research—and the Amaranth Prize for longevity research. Funding flows retrospectively to papers, then to the references that made them possible.
Cinjon Resnick
I used to own a circus studio - 1D1 in Brooklyn.
Writing
02
Aug 2023
Part 2: Communicate with a Character
Follow-up hypotheses about leading rather than merely responding, identity in conversation, and how feeling becomes voice and face.
03
Jun 2023
Familiar
A mobile app and character-creation tool that turns local buildings and art into conversational partners.
04
Apr 2023
Next Direction
A communicative audiovisual AI that feels like talking to a character with a human behind the curtain—and the businesses it could enable.
05
Apr 2023
Part 1: Communicate with a Character
Fourteen research questions toward human-like communication with a robot.
06
Apr 2023
Other, Self, AIbert
Language models are fantastic at modeling Other intent, with little need or reason to model Self intent.
07
Dec 2022
Building Primer
Primer is a digital AI teacher—an Aristotle for everyone. What would it take to build it today?
08
Nov 2022
Systems: Frax Analysis
A study of Frax, completed with Justin Cullen and Dino Mihalopoulos, as one part of Web3 banking.
09
Nov 2022
Systems: Frax Synthesis
A synthesis of Frax within the larger system of Web3 banking.
10
Aug 2022
Stablecoins & Collateral Ratios
A study of Web3 stablecoins, focused on collateral ratios and the behavioral economics they create.
11
Jul 2022
Systems: 0x Analysis
An analysis of 0x as a piece of the larger Web3 order-flow system.
12
Jul 2022
Systems: 0x Synthesis
A synthesis of 0x as a piece of the larger Web3 order-flow system.
13
Jan 2022
When Is Web3 Worthwhile?
A thesis for evaluating blockchains through the perspective that assets are products.
14
Aug 2021
Hearn's Robots
Autonomous agents finding and trading with humans as equals—in vehicles, art, NFTs, and games.
15
Nov 2020
Spurious Cows
Could a spurious correlation be fixed simply by collecting examples and fine-tuning?
16
Oct 2020
Three Days of Meditation
A retreat, a little kinetic magic, and lots of hallucinating—no drugs involved.
17
Sep 2020
Space & A(ugmented)R(eality)t
Reclaim communal spaces by turning walls into talking characters at the behest of street artists.
18
Aug 2020
Layer Make
An abstraction of TikTok as Photoshop: shared ownership and tools for making video together.
19
Jul 2020
Equivariant Rendering from Motion
How a video might automatically yield background, character, and animation.
20
Apr 2019
Game Theory & Dynamics
A long exploration of machine learning meets game theory, from the Fermi distribution to AlphaRank.
21
Dec 2018
Iterative Learning
Using humans in the loop to create unsupervised models with axes of variation that matter.
22
Jul 2018
Space of Motion
What distinguishes amateur movement from expert movement, with a focus on handstands.
23
Mar 2010
About a Boy
A eulogy for a man who would have been a best friend, originally written for MIT's Tech paper.
Built
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Learning
Depth First Learning
A Jane Street–sponsored fellowship helping students around the world run learning groups and share curricula globally.
02
Games
Pommerman
A team cheap-talk 2v2 game, with three global competitions including NeurIPS 2018 and 2019.
03
Movement
Space of Motion
A machine-learning service for athletes’ training videos, focused on gymnastics and USA Olympic competitors.
04
Community
Office Hours
Answering questions on machine learning with chat. Still the best marketing hack yet. Thanks, Intercom.