Humanity’s Cosmic Endowment
Who is the cosmic endowment owed to, and what might we owe the conscious minds we create?
Alex Leung
I work on ChatGPT at OpenAI. I write about software, technical books, and life outside work.
Selected writing
Farming Agent Mistakes
When a coding agent makes a repeatable mistake, I try to keep the correction in the harness for the next run.
Dropout as Shared-Parameter Bagging
A concrete way to understand dropout in deep learning: sampled subnetworks with shared weights, standing in for a much more expensive ensemble.
Work
Previously at Jetson, Google, Cash App, and North.