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I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

I write mainly on Substack: https://bosoncutter.substack.com/

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Connor Blake

I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

I write mainly on Substack: https://bosoncutter.substack.com/

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Connor Blake

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I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

I write mainly on Substack: https://bosoncutter.substack.com/

5mo

Connor Blake

I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

I write mainly on Substack: https://bosoncutter.substack.com/

Effective Altruism will be unbundled

From the end of high school to after my sophomore year of college, I considered myself an effective altruist. I was on the board of my college EA club, ran an EA intro fellowship, and went to EA retreats. I was vegetarian, regularly donated to GiveWell, and generally tried to...

Jun 17•46

The AlphaFold moment for materials is not any time soon

I recently attended a small materials + AI conference that pulled together academics, materials industry executives, former cabinet members, startup founders, and military officers. This post summarizes how my thinking on AI + materials science has updated based on those conversations and my own research. Full disclosure: I am not...

Apr 11•20