Mechanistic Mind

World Models on the Pareto Frontier

Recognize trade-offs through graphs!

Jun 19 • 

Chris

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Is Human Memory like RAG?

Surprisingly, yes! We can use the differences to forecast what's going to happen with memory in agentic LLMs.

Jun 11 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

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May 2025

April 2025

Having Deep Research Models Review Themselves

They get ⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of five!

Apr 2 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

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March 2025

Links from March

Interesting Ideas and Places from the Internet and from the Past

Mar 31 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

1

Many Common Problems are NP-Hard

And Why that Matters for AI

Mar 26 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

2

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Claude Code vs Aider

Two command line coding assistants: which one is better?

Mar 20 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

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Using the Terminal — Bash Aliases

Some practical advice about using and getting used to the Linux terminal

Mar 13 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

February 2025

Humans are Overparameterized

Comparing neurons with Chinchilla scaling laws

Feb 28 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

1

January 2025

Where I Donated in 2024

In 2024, I split my donations between two grant-making organizations: GiveWell (GW) and Charity Entrepreneurship. Both organizations work in global…

Jan 17 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

July 2024

Listening to your Conversations and Illustrating them with Generative AI

Making a digital picture frame filled with weird AI art

Jul 18, 2024 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

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April 2024

Numbers without a Zero — Representation in the Brain

There is a mystery at the heart of computational neuroscience.

Apr 22, 2024 • 

Andrew Keenan Richardson

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