Gwern.net — Meta & Site Info

Essays · Gwern.net

Gwern — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.

Self-experiment risk-taking interview, by Elizabeth van Nostrand, Gwern · Gwern.net

Elizabeth van Nostrand, Gwern — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Interview transcript about risk-taking in self-experimentation, LLM creativity, and the limits of self-tracking metrics.

2025 Inkhaven Writing Interview, by Gwern, Adam Mastroianni · Gwern.net

Gwern, Adam Mastroianni — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Interview with Adam Mastroianni (Experimental History) on writing and where ideas come from; done November 2025 at the Inkhaven writing residency.

Changelog · Gwern.net

Gwern — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Monthly chronological list of recent major writings/changes/additions to Gwern.net (see also the monthly newsletter).

Design Graveyard · Gwern.net

Gwern — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Meta page describing Gwern.net website design experiments and post-mortem analyses.

Towards Better RSS Feeds, by Gwern · Gwern.net

Gwern — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Discussion of the mismatch between blog-oriented RSS feeds and longform/wiki writing methods, and how providing a ‘temporal hierarchy’ of raw edits → summaries may help square the circle.

About This Website · Gwern.net

Gwern — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Meta page describing Gwern.net site ideals of stable long-term essays which improve over time; idea sources and writing methodology; metadata definitions; site statistics; copyright license.

Gwern.net Website Traffic · Gwern.net

Gwern — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Meta page describing Gwern.net editing activity, traffic statistics, and referrer details, primarily sourced from Google Analytics (2011-present).

Design Of This Website · Gwern.net

Gwern — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Meta page describing Gwern.net, the self-documenting website’s implementation and experiments for better ‘semantic zoom’ of hypertext; technical decisions using Markdown and static hosting.