Hi, I'm Nicky Case! Here are my latest ten posts: (see full archive)

Research Notes-dump for Oct 2024 · a bunch of misc projects I'm playing with around AI Safety/Alignment
Welp, I'm 30. (30 tips for my 13-year-old self) · A navel-gazing post for my third-life crisis
The Creative Cyborg (my XOXO 2024 mini-talk) · On how we may re-design AI to enhance artists, not replace them
Signal Boosts for July & August 2024 · Nasal sprays, constructed languages, and sassy sci-fi satires
Signal Boosts for June 2024 · Tutor bots, data detectives, and I FOUND A FIVE-LEAF CLOVER
Signal Boosts for May 2024 · Beavers, papers, and the CONE ZONE
Clearing out the idea closet (47 projects on my backlog) · 47 things I didn't ship.
Why don't brackets matter in multiplication? (Visual proof of associativity) · A never-before-seen visual proof of a stupidly basic fact
New project! Nutshell: make expandable explanations · A tool for writers to let readers dive into details
New talk! “How To Explain Things Real Good” · A mini-talk I gave at Stanford on math/science communication

And here's five of my favorite things I've written so far:

Back to the Future with RSS! · a short intro to the good ol' web (4 min read)
Curse of the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli · the science of emotion in learning, a sloppy literature review (7 min read)
Lizard Person · a tiny story in a tiny diner (4 min read)
Parable of the Hill Climber · a children's picture book about mid-life depression and stochastic gradient descent (2 min read)
How Do I Learn [X]? · my quick tips on learning, writing, math, art, etc. (9 min read)

Thanks for reading! 💖