Writings

Essays, blog posts, and perspectives, newest first.

Jun 2025 Generators vs. Verifiers for Scientific Discovery (thread on X) [link]
Jan 2025 Can we computationally recreate vision evolution? (eyes.mit.edu) [link]
Jun 2024 What Project Hail Mary Teaches Us About Intelligence (Substack) [link]
2024 Designing Visual Intelligence for Science and Engineering, with Aaron Young, Brian Cheung, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Tomaso Poggio, and Ramesh Raskar (MIT Press, Impacts of Generative AI) [link]
Nov 2023 Computer Vision 2.0: Light as the First-Class Citizen (this site) [link]
Jan 2023 Ingredients of Modern Perception (Substack) [link]
Apr 2020 The Perception Problem (Substack, originally on Medium) [link]
Jun 2018 Generating Fake Data: Density Estimation and Generative Adversarial Networks (Substack, originally on Medium) [link]
Nov 2017 Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection, N. Dalal & B. Triggs (Substack, originally on Medium) [link]