I live in London and work as a data scientist at Wayve. I write about copying, culture, and other ordinary things that everyone treats as weather.
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Thinking Is Slow. Copying Is Fast.
Nearly all behavior of biological species is ultimately a result of what is effectively the giant reinforcement learning algorithm in nature. It incentivizes the generation of agents with behaviors that are more likely to reproduce. In hostile and dynamic environments, adapting to a new environmenta...
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Seven Things I Learnt Doing Stand-Up Comedy
Coming on Stage for my Set. From March to April 2022 I took part in a 6 week stand-up comedy course for beginners at The Comedy Store in Central London. At the end of the course, myself and the other comedians performed a 5 minute set in front of an audience of over 150 people. Here a...
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Today's Nest Eggs Might Be Rotten By Tomorrow
I know lots of people including myself who like to worry a lot. I spend a lot of time thinking about what to do in a black swan event - "extremely unpredictable events that have massive impacts on human society". Friends and family tease me for my obsessions with how to prepare for a poten...
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What Tech Workers Don't Understand They've Lost by WFH
The debate around Working From Home is fast becoming a proxy culture war issue. The right wing is becoming increasingly more opposed to Working From Home. While the left wing retort that the preference of bosses for increased "bums on seats" is a consequence of the implicit feudal structur...
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Incentivising Workers Back into the Office
Many tech workers are very keen to continue WFH. While often managers would prefer workers to be in the office more often. Many of the measures to manage the pandemic have been lifted and life, in a lot of aspects, is returning to pre-pandemic norms. As such, employers are taking the opportunity to...