III · SCRIPTA

The writing cabinet.

Every piece of writing gets an object and a lit niche. Hover to wake one.

Verba volant, scripta manent.

Spoken words fly away; written ones remain.

CAT. I · storyfeatured
The Tools of Meaning-Making Part I: The Forest Feels You Walk In, story on Substack, opens in a new tab
Installing cyberanimism into your loving soul
Substack, Feb 11, 2026, ~1,465 words
“‘What a nice forest.’ You thought to yourself, your mind incapable of feeling surprise after the never-ending dopaminergic barrage of everyday living in the 21st century.”
#fiction
CAT. II · paperpreprint soon
Subspace Dictionaries Across Depth: Comparing SASA and Sparse Autoencoders in Gemma 3 1B
Red Cedar Institute, in review · AAAI
“We study whether internal LLM representations distinguish why a model is uncertain, not just how uncertain it is.”
CAT. III · paper
Impact of Network Topology on Byzantine Resilience in Decentralized Federated Learning, paper on arXiv, opens in a new tab
arXiv, Jul 6, 2024
“We find that state-of-the-art Byzantine robust aggregation strategies are not resilient within large non-fully connected networks.”
CAT. IV · the garden
thoughts.danhelo.com, the garden, opens in a new tab
the unfinished ones
“…it’s all one big web of my life, separating it is dumb.”
CAT. V · sealeddo not open
Not yet catalogued

Index

I
The Tools of Meaning-Making Part I: The Forest Feels You Walk In, story on Substack, opens in a new tabInstalling cyberanimism into your loving soul
story
Substack, Feb 11, 2026, ~1,465 words
II
Subspace Dictionaries Across Depth: Comparing SASA and Sparse Autoencoders in Gemma 3 1BSASA dictionaries at all 26 layers of Gemma 3 1B, against Gemma Scope 2 SAEs and random-subspace controls. Projected group-norms predict semantic entropy well above the controls; the apparent split by cause (ambiguity, knowledge gaps, missing information, computational difficulty) turns out to be a dataset-identity confound: AUROC 1.000 falls to 0.453 under a passage-matched control.
paper · preprint soon
Red Cedar Institute, in review · AAAI
III
Impact of Network Topology on Byzantine Resilience in Decentralized Federated Learning, paper on arXiv, opens in a new tabGrew out of FedUp. State-of-the-art Byzantine-robust aggregation, tested on large decentralized networks that aren’t fully connected, stops being resilient, which makes the case for topology-aware aggregation.Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Daniel Helo Puccini, Joshua Siegel
paper
arXiv, Jul 6, 2024
IV
thoughts.danhelo.com, the garden, opens in a new tabthe unfinished ones
the garden

the garden

thoughts.danhelo.com · the unfinished ones