Lab Notes
Interpretability reading notes — week six
Sketches from the whiteboard: what we kept, what we threw away, and the one graph that changed the room’s mind.
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Ideas, notes, and signals worth rereading.
Longer thinking from DeTA — essays, lab notes, field reports, and documentation that outlasts a single event. Written for builders who care about clarity as much as velocity.
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Signal ethics in the field, not only in the abstract
How we write checklists for demos, data, and deployment — small guardrails that keep curiosity from overrunning consent.
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Community
What survived the build night
Three prototypes, one flaky sensor, and a shared doc that outlasted the pizza — a short retrospective on output over polish.
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Firmware bring-up: the boring path to a calm demo
Serial traces, power sequencing, and the one register that was never going to work on the first try.
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Civic data sprint — questions before dashboards
We almost built a map; instead we interviewed three stewards and rewrote the schema twice.
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Game feel notes from a weekend jam
Input latency, camera lag, and why “juice” is a contract with the player, not a shader trick.
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Security reading group — threat modeling for students
STRIDE on a whiteboard, no laptops open — then we broke a toy API in fifteen minutes, kindly.
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Open source in the room: governance without theater
Maintainers, credit lines, and the awkward moment someone asks who owns the trademark.
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