About
I'm Saif Ul Islam. I work on knowledge editing and interpretability in language models — what a model believes, how to change it, and how to tell whether the change actually took hold and how far it travelled.
What this site is
A working notebook, published:
Writing Dated pieces. A note, an argument, a session where something turned out to be wrong. The date is part of what they mean.
Notebook Living pages, one per project, revised in place so a reader always sees current state.
Labs Deployment and security learned one small broken system at a time, as a checklist I tick off.
Reading The papers my work rests on, marked by whether I have checked each citation against the paper itself.
Agentic Tools that keep research moving when nobody is watching, and the boundary they are built around.
Shipped Tools that are deployed and in use, each with a page of its own.
Built Interactive pages I made to understand something.
Someday Things I want to do, try, learn or make, written down so my head can stop holding them. Not plans; lines I no longer have to remember.Nothing here is peer reviewed. Pieces carry a status, and the ones that get withdrawn stay up with the reason attached, because a claim that quietly disappears teaches nobody anything.
How I choose what to work on
Three questions, applied to each piece of work:
- Question 1Is it true regardless of what I hoped?
- Question 2Does it take prior work one verifiable step further?
- Question 3Would it still matter to the field if my own vision vanished tomorrow?
Work that fails these is a toy, and I let it go. Difficulty is a cost, not a goal — the best next step is usually the one that is better connected to a real problem, not the one that is harder.
Elsewhere
GitHubgithub.com/Rubix982Code for the projects written about hereLinkedInlinkedin.com/in/suislamWork history and the formal versiondotclaudeRubix982/dotclaudeThe instructions my AI agents work underEmailsaifulislam84210@gmail.comThe fastest route, corrections included