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Engineering Architecture: A Syllabus?

Assembling a reading list on the theory of engineering architecture.

22 hrs ago • Ben Recht

Freedom From Choice

Building a theory of the architecture of organizing machines and people.

Apr 22 • Ben Recht

Walk the Marble Malls

Identifying the elements of a theory of engineering architecture.

Apr 20 • Ben Recht

Structured Uncertainties

A brief introduction to the structured singular value and what it teaches us about uncertainty quantification.

Apr 17 • Ben Recht

Reticulating Splines

The long legacy of simulation-based control.

Apr 15 • Ben Recht

Purposeful Predictions

What is simulation, and what is it good for?

Apr 13 • Ben Recht

Calibrated Games

Solving the game of forecasting with accounting strategies.

Apr 10 • Ben Recht

Mapping the territory of simulation and its many purposes.

Apr 7 • Ben Recht

Arbitrary Geometry

Adversarial regret as a proof technique in learning, optimization, and games

Apr 3 • Ben Recht

Should Have Known Better

Motivating the metric of regret in sequential decision making.

Apr 2 • Ben Recht

March 2026

You Play to Win the Game

The game theory behind algorithmic decision making

Mar 31 • Ben Recht

The Poetics of Bureaucracy

Language models are a bureaucratic technology

Mar 26 • Ben Recht

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