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Small World Models
How much do you need to know about a system to control it?
Mar 16 • Ben Recht
Benchmarking Culture
A summary of my presentation at the Cultural AI Conference
Mar 10 • Ben Recht
Minimal Updates
A few argmin announcements from the road
Mar 9 • Ben Recht
For All The Cows
Steampunk Data Science: An afterword and some thoughts on Cyberpunk Data Science.
Mar 6 • Ben Recht
Learning From the Mess
What the vitamin story tells us about reproducibility, discovery, and human nature.
Mar 5 • Ben Recht
The Vital Amines
Assembling the consensus on the necessity of vitamins.
Mar 4 • Ben Recht
At least it's an ethos?
The limits of optimal control, from the maximalist and minimalist perspectives
Mar 2 • Ben Recht

February 2026

Defining Normal to See Abnormal
The data scientific techniques used to find dietary allowances.
Feb 27 • Ben Recht
Ratts of the Capital
In the quest for knowledge, Elmer McCollum cooks up some synthetic rodent food.
Feb 26 • Ben Recht
A Single Grain Experiment
Steampunk Data Science - Part 2
Feb 25 • Ben Recht
Can anyone fix science?
Science has always been in crisis. This is fine.
Feb 24 • Ben Recht
Maximum Principles
A crash course on optimal control
Feb 23 • Ben Recht
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