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Exploring MAOIs for Depression

I’m considering trying an MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor) instead of my current SNRI (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) for…

Mar 5, 2024
Exploring MAOIs for Depression
Exploring MAOIs for Depression
Mar 5, 2024

9 lessons from Moral Mazes

Moral Mazes was written about how large corporate entities worked in the 1980s, but the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Jan 16, 2022
Jan 16, 2022

The best gift you can give

tl;dr: Take 5 minutes to skim https://80000hours.org/key-ideas/. It could be one of the most impactful things you do this year.

Nov 29, 2020
The best gift you can give
The best gift you can give
Nov 29, 2020

What is utopia?

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is…

Jul 30, 2020
What is utopia?
What is utopia?
Jul 30, 2020

COVID case data exploration

It’s tough to understand all the numbers on COVID developments. I made a Colab notebook to try to answer the question “are things getting…

Mar 29, 2020
COVID case data exploration
COVID case data exploration
Mar 29, 2020

8 ways to live better

“Why didn’t anyone tell me this before??” This is my feeling about most of the content in this list when I first encountered it. I’ve…

Feb 29, 2020
8 ways to live better
8 ways to live better
Feb 29, 2020

My depression and the magic of SSRIs

On Halloween, I started taking Lexapro, an SSRI, to treat my depression. On the first day, I noticed an obvious and immediate effect as…

Jan 9, 2020
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My depression and the magic of SSRIs
My depression and the magic of SSRIs
Jan 9, 2020
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Why I write

Reading about how Leonardo da Vinci journaled so prolifically but only published a tiny fraction made me both sad and inspired. I was sad…

Jul 2, 2019
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Why I write
Why I write
Jul 2, 2019
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How to deploy big models

500MB of Pytorch on AppEngine and Kubernetes

Jun 10, 2019
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How to deploy big models
How to deploy big models
Jun 10, 2019
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How to sample from language models

Causal language models like GPT-2 are trained to predict the probability of the next word given some context. For example, given “I ate a…

May 24, 2019
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How to sample from language models
How to sample from language models
May 24, 2019
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Ben Mann

Ben Mann

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Software engineer, tinkerer, aspiring mad scientist

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