01Journal
Working notes from the studio.
- AI
The line we draw around a language model
Three questions we ask before letting a probabilistic system make a decision on a user's behalf.
Read7 min - Mathematics
Monotone by construction
A progress bar that ran backwards, and why an invariant belongs in the definition of a metric rather than in a test that catches it later.
Read6 min - Research
Dose, not duration
Counting minutes is convenient and physically meaningless. What changes when you model accumulation as an integral instead.
Read6 min - Data Science
The square root of the specification
Laboratory conditions are a distribution your users are not drawn from. Calibrating to the certification instead of the deployment is a class of error, not an anecdote.
Read5 min - Engineering
Cache-first was the bug
Any state a user can enter but cannot leave is a defect, however good the reason for entering it was.
Read5 min
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