Roman Hauksson
@roman.technology
CS undergrad at UT Dallas. Into software engineering, Effective Altruism, machine learning, weightlifting, personal knowledge management, and analytic philosophy.
https://roman.technology
https://roman.technology
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i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay
September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay
I'm going to do my first blinded self-RCT to see what effect caffeine has on me. Each morning for 30 days, after my coffee, I'll blindly take either a 100mg caffeine pill or an empty gelatin capsule. I'll record subjective factors (focus, mood, anxiety level) at set times throughout the day.
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm going to do my first blinded self-RCT to see what effect caffeine has on me. Each morning for 30 days, after my coffee, I'll blindly take either a 100mg caffeine pill or an empty gelatin capsule. I'll record subjective factors (focus, mood, anxiety level) at set times throughout the day.
Cool report on mechanisms to verify compliance with international AI treaties. International AI cooperation is a sorely neglected research topic compared to how important it will be.
How can the US and China (or the international community, broadly) ensure compliance in AI agreements to manage large-scale risks? In a recent report, we discuss options available for verification of international AI treaties. Applicable to domestic rules too! 🧵 (1/12)
Mechanisms to Verify International Agreements About AI Development — MIRI Technical Governance Team
In this research report we provide an in-depth overview of the mechanisms that could be used to verify adherence to international agreements about AI development.
techgov.intelligence.org
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Cool report on mechanisms to verify compliance with international AI treaties. International AI cooperation is a sorely neglected research topic compared to how important it will be.
Just watched this incredibly well-made video on how integrated circuits are manufactured and was reminded how high the ceiling of educational resource quality is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...
How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps
YouTube video by Branch Education
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Just watched this incredibly well-made video on how integrated circuits are manufactured and was reminded how high the ceiling of educational resource quality is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...
Thoughtful thread on the recent controversy about scrapes of Bluesky posts and data ethics in general.
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
November 27, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Thoughtful thread on the recent controversy about scrapes of Bluesky posts and data ethics in general.
I think Bluesky is a good candidate for a standard platform on which academic papers are discussed. It’s open, has traction, and interfaces with the general public as well as researchers. Imagine if every arXiv paper had a link to a Bluesky thread where people could share their thoughts.
November 22, 2024 at 1:14 AM
I think Bluesky is a good candidate for a standard platform on which academic papers are discussed. It’s open, has traction, and interfaces with the general public as well as researchers. Imagine if every arXiv paper had a link to a Bluesky thread where people could share their thoughts.
Looks like a quite interesting podcast series. I’ve been meaning to study how researchers conceptualize what intelligence is exactly.
Episode 5 of our podcast is out! We discuss how complicated it is to assess intelligence, whether in humans, animals, or machines.
With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick.
Check it out!
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...
With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick.
Check it out!
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence? | COMPLEXITY
When it comes to assessing intelligence, people have all kinds of tests — the SAT, IQ tests, and so on. There’s controversy over how fairly these tests really measure human intelligence, but at the ve...
complexity.simplecast.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Looks like a quite interesting podcast series. I’ve been meaning to study how researchers conceptualize what intelligence is exactly.
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(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
November 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...