Vol. II · No. 156
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Friday, June 5, 2026
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Teen Different.

Deep technical analysis of AI systems and LLM safety.

Recent essays

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The Revival of Predictive Coding

Introducing EqPropMomentum: A physics-grounded optimizer for biologically plausible AI.

Adaptive Attention at Inference Time: Does It Actually Work?

A hypernetwork that rewires GPT's value heads on every forward pass. And the answer is... not straightforward.

Zero RL - From Words to Worlds

Automating the least glamorous, most expensive part of reinforcement learning: building the world.

Stitching Vision into LLMs: A Comparative Analysis of Embedding Spaces

Building a VLM from scratch using model stitching and LoRA — comparing CLIP's language alignment vs. I-JEPA's world modeling.

apply_chat_template() Is the Safety Switch

How a Single Function Call Gates Safety Alignment in Gemma, Qwen, and Other Open-Source LLMs

AI 2025 Retrospective: The Static Graph Ceiling

My thoughts on the frontier labs' gatekeeping, the rise of the app layer, and why we need open algorithms, not just open weights.

Sample-Tuned Rank-Augmented Weights

An experiment in making neural networks rewrite themselves for every single input. Inspired by the human brain.

Your Features Aren’t What You Think They Are

Evaluating Local Feature Attribution and Decision Fidelity in Deep Vision Models via Perturbation-Based Explanations

Ground Zero

New phase, new experiments.