The view from afar

                                                         
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Welcome! The View from Afar is a minimal repository of assorted writing. You can read more about the blog here, or sign up for the mailing list here.

Sketches:

[2025-04] Occam, Solomonoff, and neural networks as induction machines
[2025-03] Knowledge as information compression, or Big Thing in the Chinese room
[2024-12] Evolution as Stochastic Gradient Descent

Poems:

[2025-05] Collapse
[2025-05] Untitled
[2025-01] Double Dactyl

Other:

Idea Garden
Bookshelf