I'm Erik Ferguson, a Senior Data Scientist with experience in industrial operations, autonomous vehicles, and AI safety. This site collects stuff I've written, which will probably mostly be about tech, along with other random stuff.
I've got an M.S. in Business Data Analytics and a B.A. in Religious Studies, focusing on Sōtō Zen and Jōdo Shinshū. It's been quite a journey. 😸 日本語も少し分かります。
Using interactive Bayesian models, this article shows that "miles driven" is a weaker AV safety argument than it appears.
How I jailbroke Microsoft Copilot by switching languages mid-attack.
The first official Perl 6 release took 15 years of work. I'm credited by my moniker `muraiki`: I filed various bug reports as I used Rakudo's awesome concurrency capabilities in a production app. I wasn't smart enough to fix the bugs, but finding them was still helpful for the project!
"When the garden of your soul is full of thistles, do not try to uproot them, for as long as you concern yourself with them you will always end up being injured and infected by germs. Concentrate all your energy on the flowers of your soul, water them and then the thistles will wither themselves. And the best flower of all is your love for Christ. If you water this and it grows, all the thistles will die off."