Ben Recht
Blog: argmin.substack.com
Webpage: people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
- Lyapunov's two methods of stability analysis.
- Control theory is a study of life, not death: Motivating stability analysis with homeostasis.
- With analogies to optimization algorithms, I describe a path to generalize from linear to nonlinear control.
- Feedback as the algebra of interconnection.
- Feedback, Learning, and Adaptation: A (tentative) syllabus.
- For the first time in almost a decade, I’m teaching a class on learning and control. Here’s what it’s about and what’s different this time around.
- One of the greatest mysteries of computer science is why anything works given the reality of software.
- Statistical inference is a rhetoric of counts.
- AI psychosis meets amphetamine psychosis: - ChatGPT one-shotted an Erdős Problem from 1980. - A human found a solution from 1936. - The 2nd author on the 1936 paper? Erdős himself.
- Claude Code UX
- Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
- Medicine is the only human-facing science that consistently finds five-sigma interventions. Change my mind.
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- I can see the beneficence, but I'm having a hard time squaring this with respect for persons. (Amazing how frequently sentences like this appear in methods sections of psychology papers.)
- I think this is called "regression to the min."
