<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.3.3">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/blog/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-22T20:47:38+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/blog/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Nathan’s Notes</title><subtitle>A blog about things.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Zugunruhe</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/zugunruhe" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Zugunruhe" /><published>2026-02-27T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-02-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/zugunruhe</id><author><name></name></author><category term="musings" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ideology, beyond robustness and agency]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Psycholinguistics and 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RNN-ifying SSMs works.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Case for Humanoid Robots</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/humanoid-robots" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Case for Humanoid Robots" /><published>2024-10-31T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-10-31T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/humanoid-robots</id><author><name></name></author><category term="ideas" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why we should bet on open source humanoid robots.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/explore-exploit" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma" /><published>2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/explore-exploit</id><author><name></name></author><category term="rl" /><category term="musings" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Multi-armed bandits and a prolonged analogy]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">MRI Reconstruction and Convex Optimization</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/mri-reconstruction" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="MRI Reconstruction and Convex Optimization" /><published>2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/mri-reconstruction</id><author><name></name></author><category term="ml" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[An accessible introduction to MRI Reconstruction and solving them with unrolled neural networks]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Mamba: Selective State Space Modeling</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/mamba" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Mamba: Selective State Space Modeling" /><published>2024-07-22T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-07-22T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/mamba</id><author><name></name></author><category term="ml" /><category term="math" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[An introduction to Mamba models: faster and better* than transformers]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Archetypes and Presentation</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/archetypes-and-presentation" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Archetypes and Presentation" /><published>2024-06-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-06-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/archetypes-and-presentation</id><author><name></name></author><category term="musings" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Discarding the cracked "Stanford CS" stereotype]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Flow Matching</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/flow-matching" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Flow Matching" /><published>2024-06-17T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-06-17T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/flow-matching</id><author><name></name></author><category term="ml" /><category term="math" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A overview of diffusion models and flow matching models.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Being Serious</title><link href="https://nathanjzhao.github.io/being-serious" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Being Serious" /><published>2024-05-19T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-05-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://nathanjzhao.github.io/being-serious</id><author><name></name></author><category term="musings" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thinking more about what's actually best.]]></summary></entry></feed>