Thoughts

Things I'm thinking about. Not very polished. Updated whenever something sticks.

Jun 9, 2026
Surreal

Defended my PhD yesterday. Got the diploma. It still doesn’t feel real.
Apr 7, 2026
AI sycophancy: what the new Science paper shares with our cross-lingual study

Cheng et al. published a study in Science last week on AI sycophancy. They fed 11 LLMs posts from Reddit’s r/AmITheAsshole and found models affirm user behavior 49% more often...
Apr 2, 2026
Five heads in layer 12: what a learned KB encoder actually learns

Part 1 showed that adding KG vectors to an LLM’s hidden state fails regardless of alignment. What works: train a small encoder to project KB entries into the model’s attention...
Apr 1, 2026
Right zip code, wrong address: why you can't just add knowledge to an LLM

I spent the last couple of weeks reading into how people combine knowledge graphs with LLMs. Knowledge graphs store facts as triples like (France, capital, Paris), structured and updatable. LLMs...
Mar 21, 2026
It's done

Submitted my PhD thesis three days ago. For the first time in years, I’m enjoying some guilt-free time off. It feels unreal.

Surreal