Concept Engines

A personal notebook by Alexander Knox

A place to think.
About intelligence.

Ideas worth exploring.
Systems worth building.

See where a thought can go ↓
A connected network of ideas.
Scroll to unfold

Everything starts with a question. What happens when an idea becomes a system? When the system learns from the work? And the next idea starts a little further ahead?

This is where I follow those questions. Through writing, independent research, and things I build to find out.

The recursive loop

Build. Learn.
Begin again.

A plan becomes working software. Review becomes evidence. What the system learns goes into its next pass.

Inside the recursive loop ↗
The support loop

Close the loop.
Open the next.

A customer’s report enters the same system. The fix travels through testing and release, then back to the person who needed it.

From report to resolution ↗
The personal publishing loop

More thought.
Less friction.

Interests become ideas. Ideas become drafts in my voice. I choose what’s worth sharing.

A workflow for a public voice ↗
Connected loops of building, support, and personal publishing.
A thought takes shape.

A closer look.

The architecture, the decisions,
and the thinking behind the work.

Building autonomous systems

The system that
learns from itself.

Inside the recursive operating loop I built.

Customer operations

A fix is only
the beginning.

Connecting the customer’s report to the engineering loop.

Personal publishing

A workflow.
A personal voice.

From news and interests to something worth saying.

Explore all writing ↗

Independent research

Even a thought
has a shape.

My first machine learning preprint explores feature size, decoder geometry, and semantic specificity in sparse autoencoders.

An illustrative feature space.
A visual metaphor for feature space. Not a plot of research data.Explore the research ↗

Curiosity.
Made tangible.

Alexander Knox

The person behind the questions

Still curious.

I’m Alex. I build software, study machine learning, play music, and follow questions wherever they lead. This notebook is where those worlds meet.

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