Ishan Mukherjee
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  • May 20, 2026machine learning3300 words, 17 minutes reading time

    The Illustrated Collectives

  • Mar 7, 2026math & cs1100 words, 6 minutes reading time

    Optimal BFS

  • Jan 31, 2026general3300 words, 17 minutes reading time

    How Renaissance Technologies won

  • Nov 23, 2025general1800 words, 9 minutes reading time

    Facts about China

  • Sep 28, 2025general1700 words, 9 minutes reading time

    How the first hedge fund made money

  • Sep 1, 2025general300 words, 2 minutes reading time

    Links for September

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    Links for August

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    Links for July

  • Jun 29, 2025machine learning900 words, 5 minutes reading time

    QK normalization is probably a free lunch

  • Jun 23, 2025machine learning2300 words, 12 minutes reading time

    Diffusion models can be quite simple

  • Jun 7, 2025machine learningbiology900 words, 5 minutes reading time

    How categorical Jacobians retrieve contact maps

  • Jun 5, 2025machine learning400 words, 2 minutes reading time

    A brief example of reward hacking in GRPO

  • May 4, 2025machine learning200 words, 2 minutes reading time

    Fork LLM chats

  • May 3, 2025general1600 words, 8 minutes reading time

    Uğur Şahin, energetic alien

  • May 1, 2025machine learning1000 words, 6 minutes reading time

    Chase a capability

  • Apr 19, 2025biology500 words, 3 minutes reading time

    How proteins know where to go

  • Apr 15, 2025machine learning800 words, 5 minutes reading time

    Just do the experiment

  • Apr 13, 2025machine learning1200 words, 7 minutes reading time

    How contrastive SAE feature search works

  • Mar 24, 2025general1600 words, 8 minutes reading time

    What I'd like to know

  • Mar 14, 2025general700 words, 4 minutes reading time

    How to tell a stag hunt from a prisoner's dilemma

  • Mar 13, 2025general1100 words, 6 minutes reading time

    The definition and the meaning

  • Mar 13, 2025math & cs500 words, 3 minutes reading time

    Why is the inner product for complex spaces defined like that?

  • Mar 9, 2025math & cs600 words, 3 minutes reading time

    Orthogonality makes a cameo in inverse matrices

  • Mar 9, 2025math & cs800 words, 4 minutes reading time

    Matrices are generic linear functions

  • Mar 8, 2025math & cs800 words, 5 minutes reading time

    Why Gauss-Jordan inverts matrices

  • Feb 22, 2025math & cs1100 words, 6 minutes reading time

    Trees are strings

  • Feb 11, 2025machine learning400 words, 3 minutes reading time

    Why L1 regularization creates sparsity

  • Jan 25, 2025general14200 words, 72 minutes reading time

    College advice

  • Jan 7, 2025machine learning5200 words, 26 minutes reading time

    The Illustrated Hyena

  • Dec 7, 2024machine learning500 words, 3 minutes reading time

    Why not tie embeddings?

  • Dec 1, 2024math & cs500 words, 3 minutes reading time

    A math problem about adding infinities

  • Nov 4, 2024general300 words, 2 minutes reading time

    Quotes

  • Aug 25, 2024general2200 words, 11 minutes reading time

    Book review: When We Cease to Understand the World

  • Aug 25, 2024general2900 words, 15 minutes reading time

    Book review: The Mind-Body Problem

  • Aug 25, 2024machine learning5000 words, 25 minutes reading time

    Book review: Genius Makers

  • Aug 3, 2024biologygeneral1000 words, 5 minutes reading time

    Memes vs genes

  • Jul 23, 2024general2900 words, 15 minutes reading time

    To attract talent, pay asymmetrically

  • Jul 16, 2024general1300 words, 7 minutes reading time

    Consequentialism implies a social discount rate of zero

  • Jul 14, 2024general1400 words, 7 minutes reading time

    The competing infinities of longtermism

  • Jul 13, 2024biology2100 words, 11 minutes reading time

    Sex as portfolio diversification for genes

  • Jul 11, 2024general1400 words, 8 minutes reading time

    Four stories about young Feynman

  • Jul 10, 2024general2000 words, 10 minutes reading time

    How to think faster

  • Apr 8, 2024general600 words, 4 minutes reading time

    Take gen ed classes later, not sooner

  • Jul 17, 2023general2200 words, 11 minutes reading time

    Book review: The Left Hand of Darkness

  • Jul 15, 2023general9500 words, 48 minutes reading time

    Book review: The Power Law

  • Apr 23, 2023machine learninggeneral7200 words, 36 minutes reading time

    Can technical experts influence national AI policy? The case of Homi Bhabha and the Indian nuclear program

  • Mar 11, 2023general1400 words, 8 minutes reading time

    Maybe war has declined because people value their lives more now

  • Mar 4, 2023general1200 words, 7 minutes reading time

    Why do nuclear weapons deter war?

Ishan Mukherjee

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Junior at Northwestern University.