#research
Research notes and open questions, written in progress rather than after the fact.
Pierre Menard, Computational Researcher
· 13 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
Wanted to know if an LLM respects probability. Ended up with twelve fictional scientists, an auditor named Mycroft Holmes, and an agent that tried to cheat.
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.