Things I'm learning
the honest versionEach series is me learning something properly and writing it down as I go. Published parts are real; unpublished parts are promises.
Causal inference, from scratch
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From "why your dashboard is lying" to a defensible effect estimate. No prerequisites beyond curiosity and a little algebra.
1. why correlation lies
2. DAGs
3. confounders
4. do-calculus
5. estimation
6. sensitivity
7. case study
Agentic harnesses, in practice
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What actually makes agents useful: tools, checks, context, and evals. Built from real workflows, not demos.
1. what a harness is
2. tools & contracts
3. context engineering
4. evals
5. failure modes
ABSORBING LATELY
book
The Book of Why · Judea Pearl. Slowly, with a pencil.
papers
Agent evaluation writeups · anything honest about where agents fail.
rewatch
3Blue1Brown, linear algebra · it hits different the third time.