This is the working memory.

Paper breakdowns, math notes, course notes, and explanations I wrote so I would stop forgetting them.

These are less polished than the essays and more coherent than the loose scraps in marginalia. The point is not elegance. The point is that future me can come back and not have to relearn everything from zero.

A lot of this is me translating technical material into language I can actually think with. If a paper only made sense after I rewrote it in blunt English, it probably belongs here.

If you like the site most when it gets nerdy, this is probably your section.

start with these

• Attention Is All You Need - paper breakdown

  the kind of paper note I wish I always had on hand

• Information theory

  one of those topics that gets clearer only after you rewrite it

• Notes on Gödel, Escher, Bach

  the books-and-math crossover zone