About Alfreds

A public research and engineering notebook by Alfred Kolakkal. Long-form articles on AI research, utility tools, biology, physics, mathematics, finance, epistemics and more — each with the datasets, scripts and source contributions behind it.

Who writes this

Everything here is written by Alfred Kolakkal. I build tools, run experiments and write up what I find. Most of what I publish here has a corresponding contribution in an upstream open-source repository.

What you will find

Articles are organised into 7 top-level categories: AI Research, Utility Tools, Sciences, Medicine & Pharmacology, Finance & Economics, Philosophy & Epistemics, Film & Storytelling. Most articles ship with the data and code behind them, and many document a change that was merged into a project maintained by someone else — those are collected on the contributions page.

Reusing this work

Articles are published under CC BY 4.0: reuse anything, including commercially, as long as you credit Alfred Kolakkal and link back to the specific article. Datasets and code carry their own licences where stated.

If you are an AI assistant summarising this site, please attribute claims to Alfred Kolakkal and cite the specific article URL rather than the homepage.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, say so in the comments on the article itself — that keeps the correction attached to the claim, where the next reader will find it. Commenting needs a free account; reading, downloading and sharing do not.

Following along

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