Nathan’s Notes https://nathanzhao.cc/ 2026-09-04T14:53:12-04:00 Nathan Zhao nathanzh@stanford.edu Zugunruhe 2026-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 /zugunruhe Ideology, beyond robustness and agency Psycholinguistics and Transformer Circuits 2025-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 /psycholinguistics Exploring the intricate web of word recognition in the brain, in relation to language models Discretizing Continuous SSMs 2025-09-23T00:00:00-04:00 /blelloch The math behind why RNN-ifying SSMs works. The Case for Humanoid Robots 2024-10-31T00:00:00-04:00 /humanoid-robots Why we should bet on open source humanoid robots. The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma 2024-10-30T00:00:00-04:00 /explore-exploit Multi-armed bandits and a prolonged analogy MRI Reconstruction and Convex Optimization 2024-08-02T00:00:00-04:00 /mri-reconstruction An accessible introduction to MRI Reconstruction and solving them with unrolled neural networks Mamba: Selective State Space Modeling 2024-07-22T00:00:00-04:00 /mamba An introduction to Mamba models: faster and better* than transformers Archetypes and Presentation 2024-06-26T00:00:00-04:00 /archetypes-and-presentation Discarding the cracked "Stanford CS" stereotype Flow Matching 2024-06-17T00:00:00-04:00 /flow-matching A overview of diffusion models and flow matching models. Being Serious 2024-05-19T00:00:00-04:00 /being-serious Thinking more about what's actually best.