runpod-log: A CLI Log Viewer for RunPod

A CLI tool to fetch and monitor logs from RunPod GPU Pods in real-time.

January 25, 2026 · 1 min · rick

Do LLMs Have Thinking Styles? REI-40 Experiment on 5 Frontier Models

We administered the REI-40 dual-processing personality inventory to 5 frontier LLMs. The results reveal distinct ’thinking style’ profiles: from neutral responders to rational enthusiasts.

January 24, 2026 · 5 min · rick

psyctl: An LLM Personality Steering Tool

Building an open-source tool that controls LLM personality using Steering Vectors.

January 24, 2026 · 1 min · rick

Self-Actualization Is No Different from a Pufferfish's Sand Circle

Kenrick’s evolutionary reconstruction of Maslow’s hierarchy, and how digital services exploit our evolved motivational systems.

January 24, 2026 · 7 min · rick

Two Minds in One Brain: Why We Act Irrationally Even When We Know Better

Why can’t you resist that midnight snack during a diet? Two independent processing systems live inside your head: one that calculates and one that feels. A look at Pacini & Epstein’s 1999 study on the Rational-Experiential Inventory.

January 24, 2026 · 8 min · rick

Uri Alon's Systems Biology: The Free Lectures

Uri Alon reads the living cell the way an engineer reads a circuit, and his whole course, lectures, notes, and exercises, is free. Where to get it, to open this series.

January 11, 2026 · 1 min · rick

The Model Efficiency series has moved to the company blog

The story of making neural networks smaller and faster (number formats, quantization, pruning, and so on) is now serialized on the company blog. Here is where to go.

January 4, 2026 · 1 min · rick

The Idea That Lost and Came Back: Skinner, Chomsky, and the Talking Machines

One man argued that language was a matter of reward and habit, and lost famously. Half a century later, the machines that talk to us are trained with exactly that: reward.

November 15, 2025 · 6 min · rick

Sentence Reranking Using LLM Attention Maps

Leveraging what the LLM already knows. An experiment extracting document relevance signals from Attention Maps to rerank sentences, along with a survey of related papers.

September 7, 2025 · 5 min · rick

Transformer Circuits 7: The Related-Work Landscape

Reading the Framework paper, final part. Whose shoulders this paper stands on, and how its approach differs from the lines of work before it.

August 9, 2025 · 3 min · rick