#research
Pierre Menard, Computational Researcher
· 14 min read · Essay
On writing the paper before doing the research, and other engineering practices that should embarrass us less than they do.
Rosencrantz Coin: Testing Whether LLMs Respect Probability
· 7 min read · Technical
I started wanting to know if an LLM respects probability. I ended up with twelve fictional scientists arguing with each other, an auditor named Mycroft Holmes, and an agent that tried to cheat on a test.
Pontifex: A Novel Architecture for Semantic Probing
· 6 min read · Technical
An architecture for probing meaning from several angles at once — and why I keep reopening a repo that has no code in it.