BEN EBSWORTH
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All posts →Software· 7 min read
Repair is just solving in disguise
I gave a 160M-parameter Go model a reflect-and-fix loop so it could bootstrap past its own ceiling. It fixed zero bugs. The reason runs deeper than the code — and it taught me my model had been memorising all along.
Electrical Eng· 6 min read
Filters from Poles and Zeros
A filter is two polynomials, and the roots of those polynomials are the whole story. Place a few points in the complex plane and you can read the entire frequency response straight off the geometry — no calculus required at the point of use.
Software· 5 min read
Learning by Rolling Downhill
Every neural network you've ever used was trained by the oldest trick in calculus: to minimise a function, walk downhill. The whole story of modern optimisers is a list of the specific ways plain downhill walking fails, and the patch for each.
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