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Unreal Is Here
Mapping the territory of simulation and its many purposes.
Apr 7
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Ben Recht
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Arbitrary Geometry
Adversarial regret as a proof technique in learning, optimization, and games
Apr 3
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Ben Recht
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Should Have Known Better
Motivating the metric of regret in sequential decision making.
Apr 2
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Ben Recht
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March 2026
You Play to Win the Game
The game theory behind algorithmic decision making
Mar 31
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Ben Recht
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The Poetics of Bureaucracy
Language models are a bureaucratic technology
Mar 26
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Ben Recht
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Information Transit Got the Wrong Man
The mechanized tradition of peer review and the absurdity of bureaucratic conference review.
Mar 24
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Ben Recht
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Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions
Shalizi’s frame of artificial intelligence as mechanized tradition
Mar 20
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Ben Recht
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Small World Models
How much do you need to know about a system to control it?
Mar 16
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Ben Recht
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Benchmarking Culture
A summary of my presentation at the Cultural AI Conference
Mar 10
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Ben Recht
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Minimal Updates
A few argmin announcements from the road
Mar 9
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Ben Recht
19
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For All The Cows
Steampunk Data Science: An afterword and some thoughts on Cyberpunk Data Science.
Mar 6
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Ben Recht
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Learning From the Mess
What the vitamin story tells us about reproducibility, discovery, and human nature.
Mar 5
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Ben Recht
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