Free Writing

Before the computer was built, there was an older dream: to write down reason itself. Three collisions between that dream and the modern machine — from Saussure and word2vec, to Wittgenstein and hallucination, to Hume and generalization.

Start with five restaurants whose true quality is unknown, then follow the same problem through multi-armed bandits, dueling bandits, noisy pairwise ranking, and top-K selection: the optimization structure is known, but its parameters must be learned by trying.

Every team has more good ideas than capacity. The hard part is selection — learning to see past the costly signals, prestigious credentials, and compelling narratives to focus on what actually moves the number.

Educational demos, marketing materials, and creative work—problems without a mathematical harness. Part 2 of the Agent Autonomy series shows how orchestrated agent evolution can solve subjective problems through skill-based guidance and multiple independent evaluators.

Devesh ran a shady octopus meat caravan in the Simulation. Top agent, deep cover. Eight tentacles, eight side hustles. A story about love, AI, and taxes.