Ben Mann·Mar 5, 2024Exploring MAOIs for DepressionI’m considering trying an MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor) instead of my current SNRI (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) for…
Ben Mann·Jan 16, 20229 lessons from Moral MazesMoral Mazes was written about how large corporate entities worked in the 1980s, but the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Ben Mann·Nov 29, 2020The best gift you can givetl;dr: Take 5 minutes to skim https://80000hours.org/key-ideas/. It could be one of the most impactful things you do this year.
Ben Mann·Jul 30, 2020What 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…
Ben Mann·Mar 29, 2020COVID case data explorationIt’s tough to understand all the numbers on COVID developments. I made a Colab notebook to try to answer the question “are things getting…
Ben Mann·Feb 29, 20208 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…
Ben Mann·Jan 9, 2020My depression and the magic of SSRIsOn Halloween, I started taking Lexapro, an SSRI, to treat my depression. On the first day, I noticed an obvious and immediate effect as…A response icon4A response icon4
Ben Mann·Jul 2, 2019Why I writeReading about how Leonardo da Vinci journaled so prolifically but only published a tiny fraction made me both sad and inspired. I was sad…A response icon1A response icon1
InTDS ArchivebyBen Mann·Jun 10, 2019How to deploy big models500MB of Pytorch on AppEngine and KubernetesA response icon2A response icon2
InTDS ArchivebyBen Mann·May 24, 2019How to sample from language modelsCausal language models like GPT-2 are trained to predict the probability of the next word given some context. For example, given “I ate a…A response icon3A response icon3
