This article is long ( ~ 1h read), so I have split it into three parts of ~ 20 minutes each. Part 1: Introduction, Definition of Progress, Episodic vs Continuous Tasks Part 2: Progress by...

This post starts with the premise that there’s nothing special about the human brain that makes it the only entity capable of feeling emotions. Imagine if we could create artificial minds, embodie...

You might be wary of the hype around AI, I get it. The world is full of crackpots and people trying to sell you AI snake oil. But don’t let the noise distract you from the signal. This shit is real...

This text talks about my sister’s battle with melanoma and the role of technology in our civilization. She would probably hate me for writing this, but I don’t care. I’m not writing this for her...

Este texto habla sobre la lucha de mi hermana contra el melanoma, la libertad y el papel de la tecnología en nuestra civilización. Probablemente, ella me odiaría por escribir esto, pero no me im...

This article is long ( ~ 1h read), so I have split it into three parts of ~ 20 minutes each. Part 1: Introduction, Definition of Progress, Episodic vs Continuous Tasks Part 2: Progress by...

This text was originally posted in the LessWrong forum. You can see the original post here. tl;dr Complexity can arise from the random interactions of simple systems, without pre-exi...

tl;dr This post solves a problem from Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto. The problem asked for an exact symbolic expression for the opti...

This is a translation of a post I wrote in Spanish in 2017 in my old blog while I was doing my bachelors. I decided to translate it because I think it’s still relevant and I want to share it wit...