Hi, I'm Chris Albon. I've been working in AI for a long time, currently as Director of Machine Learning at the [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org), and over the years, I've developed a habit: reading something —- a blog post, an academic paper, a book —- and jotting down a thought in the margins. Sometimes it's a question, sometimes a connection to something else I've read, sometimes a thought that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to answer. They aren't conclusions, but artifacts of the thinking process. This isn't a newsletter in the usual sense. No big insights. No deep dives. No glossy tutorials. Just my (previously private) working notes on AI. If you're interested in seeing those notes, subscribe: <form action="https://buttondown.com/api/emails/embed-subscribe/modelandstate" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('https://buttondown.com/modelandstate', 'popupwindow')" class="embeddable-buttondown-form" > <input type="email" name="email" id="bd-email" /> <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" /> </form>