It has been the final week of Inkhaven, so I must update you on what has come to pass since the last email update. I've had a lot of fun!

Posts

Here are my blog posts since my last update:

• Inkhaven 2 retrospective on April 30, 2026
• I went to Stripe Sessions on April 29, 2026
• Loans are bets on doom on April 28, 2026
• Latent reasoning models might be a good thing on April 27, 2026
• What is Value Aligned Research Advisors? on April 26, 2026
• I used to make a lot of bad decisions on April 25, 2026
• Morphing meetups and me on April 24, 2026
• LLMs are pretty good at making slideshows now on April 23, 2026
• Nine cool programs I use on April 21, 2026

I also updated the About me and Uses pages to bring them up to date.

Me

I didn’t end up leaving Lighthaven as much as I should have since my last update; I think in hindsight I should have spent more time visiting other places in the Bay Area. Yesterday I did go to SF to visit Vivarium, a TPOT-adjacent coworking space. I tried using a Meta Quest VR headset while I was there and I think I might get one for myself once I'm back in Canada; it seems like it might be nice to work with virtual monitors inside a VR world. There’s a lot of interesting people and activities in SF, and I want to spend more time visiting there. I’m going to be staying at Lighthaven until May 5 so that I can do some more exploring of the Bay Area and hopefully do some exciting activities in SF during the rest of my time here.

We had the Inkhaven Fair on Saturday; it was a really fun event where a bunch of people went to visit us. (It was organized on fairly little notice; it hadn’t been planned when I wrote the last update email.)

I went to Stripe Sessions on its first day and it was pretty fun; see the post for details!

I ended up looking through the book collection at Lighthaven, and they have a surprisingly good selection of books here.

It felt pretty nice having finally finished Inkhaven and accomplished the feat of writing every day for April! I felt very happy and joyous as I celebrated last night.

Future

I read “Thinkhaven” (proposal for Inkhaven but for research), and I’m pretty tempted to do something like that by myself once I get back to Canada after a few post-Inkhaven rest days. There's a lot of interesting research directions on LLM interpretability I want to try; it seems like it would be good to try a bunch of random things that might not work in the hopes that I find something interesting that works.

Still planning out what else I'm going to do once I'm back in Canada. Probably going to live in Toronto for a while; there's still a lot for me to do there.