Posts here come in a few different shapes. Paper insights are close readings of a single academic paper. The rest are essays, notes on my own research, and write-ups from the communities I help run. Browse by kind below, or jump straight to a topic.

By kind

  • Paper insights 4
    Close readings of a single academic paper — what it claims, what holds up, and what it changes.
  • Thoughts 9
    Essays on intelligence, learning, and the tools we are building to do both.
  • Research 3
    My own published work, and what went into it.
  • Community 8
    Building and running the gatherings that grew me — Imbizo, Indaba𝕏, and the rest.
  • Technical 1
    Notes-to-self that turned out useful to others.

By topic

Paper insights

Close readings of a single academic paper — what it claims, what holds up, and what it changes.

Thoughts

Essays on intelligence, learning, and the tools we are building to do both.

Research

My own published work, and what went into it.

Community

Building and running the gatherings that grew me — Imbizo, Indaba𝕏, and the rest.

Technical

Notes-to-self that turned out useful to others.

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Africa

agents

AI

art

attention

backpropagation

behaviour

burnout

career

chloride dynamics

communication

community

computational modelling

computational neuroscience

Deep Learning Indaba𝕏

diffusion models

education

epilepsy

equity

events

Imbizo

judgement

leadership

learning

learning rules

Linux

machine learning

mentalising

NeuroAI

neuroscience

Open science

opinion dynamics

perception

philosophy

polarisation

presenting

problem solving

productivity

psychology

reinforcement learning

reproducibility

social networks

software engineering

teaching

tooling

virtualisation

vision

working memory

writing