HeyJaredSmall Bets, Costly Signals
I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer, attempted a linguistics PhD, and taught English to Koreans and Turks. I'm now pursuing self-employment & writing about that here, as well as AI, cogsci, and life in a world we made but aren’t made for.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 17
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 20, 2026
Latest issues
(Successful) YouTubers aren’t normal people (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="391.19505494505495" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eiwL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1731eb2d-6df4-41d8-a3e7-58c59a5417
Math for art’s sake: I now have 3 mathematical subfields I want to invent—and I think I see a pattern (opens the original)
Read excerpt
YouTube uses a floating point number of three significant figures for public subscriber counts—including the ones that show when you switch brands accounts on YouTube. The day before yesterday, I noticed my total number of videos which includes livestreams and shorts happened to match that number. <source
A quick PSA on Substack and LLMs (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I have written a post that I will be publishing soon on three probably useless subfields of mathematics I nonetheless kind of want to develop. Given that none of these subfields currently exist to the best of my knowledge, all of these ideas pose the risk of LLMs scraping my post, extrapolating from the details I have given, and putting gibberish out of there. With two of these ideas, I am convinced that it is likely to be so obviously gibberish that it will not pose a problem to anyone with an
“Freedom's just another word” – on following my passions and talents because the “responsible” path no longer looks viable (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="File:Three paths diverging at Bow Broom, Swinton - geograph.org.uk - 3249900.jpg" class="sizing-normal" height="457.3333333333333" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgmv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea671d4f-a0af-45cd-afb7-cef26e032a11_960x686.jpeg" title="File:Three paths diverging at Bow Broom, Swinton - geograph.org
Melian musings (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="File:Aerial view of the hillside of Plaka on Milos Island, Greece.jpg" class="sizing-normal" height="426.6666666666667" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jb1q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d4acf2e-ec33-4150-a7f5-00a353dd2946_960x640.jpeg" title="File:Aerial
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.