Rubedothe red, where the work is made real
Works
A paper is one way of knowing. Jung counted four: sensation tells us that a thing is, thinking what it is, feeling what it is worth, and intuition where it might lead. The work here is gathered the same way.
Thinking
tells us what a thing is
Papers and proofs
Papers · 6 chosen
Selected papers
Papers · 34 entries
The 2026 archive
Questions · Purpose · Agency · Evidence
Research statement
Feeling
tells us what it is worth
Essays
Essay
Why Don’t We Design Slower Algorithms?
Which parts of the computational process are worth preserving rather than optimizing away?
Essay
The Universe Did Not Include a Progress Bar
Finite minds, explanations with reach, and why progress needs no final percentage. An illustrated reflection on David Deutsch’s ideas.
Essay
Why I Asked AI to Build a PEFT Atlas
A field with hundreds of methods, a search for common structure, and an experiment in AI-assisted research.
Essay
What Changes When AI Helps Us Write?
The key question, then, is what the help removes and what it makes possible.
Essays in Chinese and English
Essays from Chinese social media
Essays I first published in Chinese, on WeChat and elsewhere, each with an English translation.
Sensation
tells us that it is
Films and images
Film · 17 min · narrated
A Categorical Atlas of PEFT: the film
Seventeen narrated minutes: why two different fine-tuning methods trace exactly the same path, and what cones, orbits and gauges say about every PEFT method.
Illustrated essay · Six drawings
The Universe Did Not Include a Progress Bar
Finite minds, explanations with reach, and why progress needs no final percentage. An illustrated reflection on David Deutsch’s ideas.
Video · Soon
Video collections
Collections of the videos I make will be gathered here.
Intuition
tells us where it might lead
Experiments, and what comes next
Interactive atlas
A Categorical Atlas of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
Hundreds of fine-tuning methods, viewed through one mathematical framework.
Instrument
The golden flower
The drawing that opens this site, traced live by turning circles.
Open
Not yet imagined
A place kept for work I have not thought of yet.
