hey! i'm mason.

I'm figuring out what's next for me, while (finally) starting at Stanford. Most recently, I was cofounder and CTO of Tilde , where I led engineering and infra for AI interpretability research.

sometimes i share my writing here.

12.22.25

9.13.25

8.6.25

returning to stanford

12.22.25

how to read research papers, in 5 minutes.

9.13.25

depression handbook

8.6.25

some things i've built:

PiTorch

ML on baremetal Raspberry Pis

Sparsity is Cool

interpretability + sparse attention

Activault

scalable model activation storage

and here's my bookshelf.

Takeaways and comments from my readings, from ML research to fiction.

please say hi!