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  • Introduction20 August 2026

    Parts of an AI Scientist

    Introduction to a series of exploration and implementation notes on building an AI scientist.

  • Part 123 August 2026

    A Toy Example and Some Components

    To help kick off the discussion, let's describe some general components of discovery, whether scientific or otherwise.

  • Part 229 August 2026

    Experiment Design

    Choosing which experiment to run next: predict possible outcomes, imagine the update, then average the benefit. With a little model selection first.

  • Part 33 September 2026

    Updating Beliefs with Observations

    Recovering each model's parameter posterior when exact inference is no longer available: importance sampling, tempered SMC, and a neural posterior estimator, checked against an exact reference.