Technical Writing Samples

The following are selections of my technical writing, including conceptual explainers and developers tutorials.

For my tech journalism work, see my VentureBeat author page.

My research-oriented writing on consciousness, evolution, and artificial intelligence can be found here

Bittensor Documentation and Essays

Pages I wrote for the Bittensor developer documentation, and an essay on the protocol’s design principles.

Conceptual explainers and essays

• How Yuma Consensus 3 Makes Bittensor More Fair: a conceptual explainer of Yuma Consensus 3, covering how Bittensor’s consensus mechanism rewards validators and what changed from earlier versions.
• Yuma Consensus: an explainer of how Yuma Consensus turns validators’ rankings of miners into emissions, with each calculation available in a collapsible section.
• The Unwritten Constitution: Why Bittensor Needs to Articulate Its Core Design Principles: an essay arguing that the protocol’s design principles need to be made explicit before governance is decentralized.

Procedural security

• Coldkey and Hotkey Workstation Security: a procedural security guide to separating coldkey and hotkey environments, with a tiered threat model, hardware wallets, and scoped proxies.