Skip to content

MLZEN — a calm publication about machine intelligence

Essays on models, agents, and the strange discipline of building intelligence — written slowly, on purpose.

Begin reading ↓

Featured essay

Stillness is a local minimum

Gradient descent is a theory of change that ends in rest. What optimization can teach us about attention, ambition, and knowing when to stop.

Philosophy ·  4 min  ·  read the essay →

The index — latest essays

View all (6)

Interlude — machine koans

The empty context window holds everything.

Fields of study