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Alex Wang
Personal blog · alexwang.ai/postsaiprogramming
Alex Wang's personal blog at alexwang.ai covers ai and programming. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “You could have invented transformers from memory”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a post on associative memory and how models encode memory, in a thread about a terminal-simulating model. The comment is a pointer to a related post, not a judgement of it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a researcher based in San Francisco. I like to imagine where the world is headed, and what it takes to get there.
Most-linked posts?
- You could have invented transformers from memory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-16
- The Model Is the Company2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-13
What Hacker News says?
That's very cool project. I read this blog post a few days ago about one way to look at memory encoding in models https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/ that you might find relevant
Comment linking /posts/associative-memory/
on “WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal”Submitted You could have invented transformers from memory as a story · 670 points
HN discussionSubmitted Put a price on breakthroughs as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Matrix Gradients, Without the Pain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Model Is the Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Model Is the Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussion