Recurse AI

A small AI lab in public. Notes, tools, and experiments.

Useful first. Hype last. We question AI claims, run reproducible experiments, and document what works (and what fails). Research integrity over impressive-sounding promises.

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🎮 Interactive Research Demos

Explore cutting-edge research through hands-on visualizations. Click, adjust, and discover insights.

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Activation X-Ray Demo

Interactive

Watch how activation functions destroy frequency sparsity in real-time. See why ReLU is the enemy of frequency domain efficiency.

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Phase vs Magnitude Showdown

Interactive

Discover why phase dominates image structure. Swap frequency components between images and see the surprising results.

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Sparsity Cliff Demo

Interactive

Experience the counter-intuitive reality: 90%+ sparsity required for real speedups. Quality drops smoothly, speed jumps suddenly.

Recent Work

Lab Note

Lessons from AI Consciousness Detection Research

We attempted to build measurable tools for detecting consciousness in AI systems. The approach had fundamental flaws, but the process revealed valuable insights.

Aug 14
Lab Note

Building Research-Critic: A Tool Development Story

Creating external AI validation for research methodologies - a tool that proved its worth by catching flaws in our own validation claims.

Aug 18
Lab Note

Fast ablation harness for prompts

A CLI script to test prompt variations in parallel, eliminating hours of manual repetition.

Aug 9
Essay

Working with uncertainty

Most AI work lives under uncertainty. Treat it like a first-class constraint: state assumptions, bound risk, and iterate in tight loops.

Aug 7
Essay

Against hand-wavy AI evaluations

Most AI evaluations are theater. Here's how to build evaluations that actually measure what matters.

Aug 7

Mission

📝 Research in Public

Document experiments, failed approaches, and incremental progress. Make the research process transparent.

🔬 Question Hype

Test claims rather than repeat them. Build tools to measure what matters, not what sounds impressive.

🛠 Ship Useful Tools

Create micro-tools that solve real problems for practitioners. Open source everything.

📊 Share Complete Results

Publish both positive and negative findings. Document what works, what doesn't, and the methodology behind each conclusion.

Current Focus

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Latest update: August 14, 2025