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Writing

Published research, work in progress, and some posts written years ago.

Publications

In progress — drafts not yet public.

AI Unreliability and the Law: How to Use AI Safely and Responsibly in Legal Practice

Liam Peet-Paré and Barry Sookman. On what practitioners owe their clients when the tool is probabilistic, and how professional obligations should adapt.
AI Regulation in Canada: Maintaining Economic Competitiveness while Avoiding Legal Vacuums and Catastrophic Risk

Liam Peet-Paré and Barry Sookman. On designing a Canadian regulatory posture that neither drives development offshore nor leaves serious risks unaddressed.

Written between 2015 and 2018 — expository pieces aimed at readers without a robust mathematical background.

An Introduction to Entropy

2018 · An intuitive explanation of entropy, written to help me understand the concept thoroughly.
An Introduction to Cross-Entropy

2018 · Building intuition for why cross-entropy is a useful loss function in machine learning.
Demystifying AI

2017 · An interesing snapshot of what AI looked like in 2017. My predictions and analysis have not aged particularly well.
Filling the Void

2016 · The dangers of our general ignorance of how the internet works.
A Gentle Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, Part 1: An Introduction

2015
A Gentle Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, Part 2: Security

2015
A Gentle Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, Part 3: NTRU

2015