https://jaredknowles.com/takes/2026-06-11T18:58:22ZData analysis, photography, and the occasional thought.Jared E. Knowlesjared@fastmail.ushttps://jaredknowles.com/takes/2026-06-11-145611/2026-06-11T14:56:11-04:002026-06-11T14:56:11-04:00<p>New website is live and I am so happy about it! Lots of work to get here, but the post once, syndicate everywhere workflow is great, and having it independently operating on my own infrastructure feels good!</p> { "format_string": "{{content}}" } https://jaredknowles.com/takes/2026-06-04-134909/2026-06-04T13:49:09Z2026-06-04T13:49:09Z<p>Much of my early career was peering into black boxes: using open source statistical software, demystifying ML models, communicating causal inference in plain language. With AI I am building AI-assisted tools that do the same. Openness and trust - these are still core to my work.</p> { "format_string": "{{content}}" } https://jaredknowles.com/takes/2026-05-13-204544/2026-05-13T20:45:44Z2026-05-13T20:45:44Z<p>My first real use of AI for something productive was asking openweights models Mistral and Code Gemma (v1 I think!) for help with regular expressions. Now I built this website with Claude Opus using the Claude Code harness less than 2 years later.</p> { "format_string": "{{content}}" } https://jaredknowles.com/takes/2026-05-13-193153/2026-05-13T19:31:53Z2026-05-13T19:31:53Z<p>Working paper verticals like EdWorkingPapers, NBER, and others are a convenient way to end-around the publication process while retaining a lot of the prestige and value of submitting to peer review.</p> { "format_string": "{{content}}" }