Hi, I'm Ethan. Welcome to my website.
Here and on substack I put up my musings about deep learning, art, psychology, and other stuff I think is cool.
I am 25 years old.
I've lived in Florida since I was born, but I spend quite a bit of time in Australia.
I went to University of Florida originally to study psychology and medicine but became interested in computers along the way.
I first got into AI playing around with Disco Diffusion and wrote a very extensive, fun exploration on it
I cofounded Leonardo.Ai, which is now part of Canva, and it's where I do research on how to make AI part of the creative process.
I am particularly interested in
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world models
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social learning
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adaptive and sparse methods
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hierarchical modeling
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synthetic data and sample efficiency
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role of noise in learning
I'm very interested in how machine learning can help us communicate deeply with one another, which I wrote a bit about here.
Some readings I've enjoyed:
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
Pretrained Transformers As Universal Computation Engines
Language Models are Multiverse Generators
A Place that Language Can't Reach
