Arjun Srivastava
Hi, I’m Arjun.
I build and write about AI, software, and complex systems.
Here you’ll find essays, interactive research, books, and photography. More about me.
Featured work
AI evaluation
The Evaluation Machine
How contracts, evidence, environments, and release gates help teams decide whether learned behavior is ready to ship.
Sep 2, 2026
Distributed ML
AllReduce, All the Way Down
Follow AllReduce from a simple operation through collective algorithms, network topology, and GPU execution.
Sep 8, 2026
Search & memory
Rocketships for the Mind
A system I built to recover project state from 6,604 AI conversations, reconcile evidence, and construct task-specific memory.
Jul 31, 2026
Interactive research
Interactive essays and experiments from my independent research site, Novus Opus.
Bend, Not Shift
Explore scaling laws and what would make a learner better at learning.
The Second Loop
Explore the control loops that could help AI maintain long-running plans and commitments.
The Limits of Connectivity
Experiment with the trade-off between communication and independent discovery.
The Geometry of Disagreement
Build an opinion-dynamics model, then experiment with trust, network structure, and polarization.
More writing
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Kudanshita, Tokyo
The last light catching the grasses beside the water.
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Writing on systems, machine learning, and data infrastructure.