Notes

“On the Convergence of SGLD.” SLT Seminar, November 2024. notes · video
“The Łojasiewicz Exponent.” SLT Seminar, August 2024. handwritten notes
On Shavit (2023), “What Does It Take to Catch a Chinchilla?” metauni AI safety reading group, October 2023. notes
“Induction Heads.” SLT Seminar, April 2023. notes · video
“A ‘Stone-Weierstrass’ Theorem for Neural Networks.” 2022. notes
“Blow-ups and Singular Learning Theory.” 2021. notes

Statistical mechanics seminar

See the seminar page for talks by other speakers.

“What Is Statistical Mechanics? Hamiltonian Systems and Liouville’s Theorem.” August 2023. notes · video
“Entropy and the Boltzmann Distribution.” August 2023. notes · video
“Stochastic Processes.” August 2023. notes · video
“Stochastic Differential Equations.” September 2023. notes
On Seung, Sompolinsky and Tishby (1992), “Statistical Mechanics of Learning from Examples.” September 2023. notes

Talks from the metauni Landau-Ginzburg seminar.

“An Introduction to Bicategories.” January 2022. notes · video
“Matrix Factorisations and Geometry.” February 2022. notes · video
“The Perturbation Lemma.” February 2022. notes · video 1 · video 2
“Composition in the Bicategory of Landau-Ginzburg Models.” July 2022. notes · video
“The Cut Operation.” August 2022. notes · video 1 · video 2
“Differentiation and Division.” September 2022. notes · video 1 · video 2
“The Cut Operation Revisited.” September 2022. notes · video
“Introduction to Idempotent Completion in Preadditive Categories.” 2022. notes
“Introduction to Matrix Factorisations.” 2022. notes