Nick Gustafson
I'm a software engineer and data scientist in DC. Amid all the theology surrounding artificial intelligence, I offer a little geometry. More about me →
Writing
A new college football power index and 12-team Playoff simulator that beats ESPN's FPI and SP+ across 7,336 out-of-sample games since 2017.
A tour of Goldilocks Plaza: its people, heating and cooling, conflicting controls, and a neural policy that could learn to coordinate them.
Running a 696-game tournament across 20 frontier and flash LLM configurations and a 114K-parameter AlphaZero network on a newly invented board game.
Inventing a Hex and Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe mashup, and training an AlphaZero agent from scratch in Rust and JAX to play it.
Monte Carlo Tree Search, from random games to AlphaZero.
Rust engines compiled to Wasm. Pick a game and let the AI wreck you.
Notes from trying to make an AI-drafted series sound human.
A D-A-D song leads us to latent space thinking.