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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
18
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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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The Vital Amines
Assembling the consensus on the necessity of vitamins.
Mar 4
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Ben Recht
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At least it's an ethos?
The limits of optimal control, from the maximalist and minimalist perspectives
Mar 2
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Ben Recht
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February 2026
Defining Normal to See Abnormal
The data scientific techniques used to find dietary allowances.
Feb 27
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Ben Recht
19
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Ratts of the Capital
In the quest for knowledge, Elmer McCollum cooks up some synthetic rodent food.
Feb 26
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Ben Recht
15
A Single Grain Experiment
Steampunk Data Science - Part 2
Feb 25
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Ben Recht
17
Can anyone fix science?
Science has always been in crisis. This is fine.
Feb 24
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Ben Recht
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Maximum Principles
A crash course on optimal control
Feb 23
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Ben Recht
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