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Interactive essays, research write-ups, and the occasional exploration.

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

2026 · Alignment · Mechanistic interpretability

An interactive summary of Sharkey, Chughtai et al. (2025) — decomposition, sparse dictionary learning and its eight limitations, circuit discovery, scalable oversight, and where I'm staking research direction toward alignment.

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What a Semester of Graduate Game Theory Taught Me

2026 · Game theory

Nash equilibrium and its discontents, the refinement ladder, monotone comparative statics, supermodular games, potential games — and where the analogies to alignment hold up (and where they don't).

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A Game-Theoretic View of High-Skill Tech Hiring

2025 · Game theory · Labor markets

Why recruiting researchers at labs like Midjourney looks less like a job board and more like a repeated auction with hidden values. Interactive visualizations of payoff matrices, mixed strategies, and reputation dynamics.

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Geospatial Embeddings for Pollution Prediction

2024 · Geospatial ML · Air pollution

An interactive walkthrough of my UC Berkeley honors thesis: using satellite-derived embeddings to predict block-level NO₂ across the Bay Area. A bit of ML archaeology with Ridge regression, SVR, and Random Forests.

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