# Ashutosh Trivedi

*Essays on nature, beauty, philosophy, mathematics, science and music. Yoga, meditation and the mind, long treks in the Himalaya, AI and the society of agents, fractals and optimization, and side research.*

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By day I run [VideoDB](https://videodb.io), where we build data infrastructure for machines that see. Before that, a decade in natural language processing and multi-agent systems: embeddings, summarization, reasoning, and the question of how emergence arises as an intelligent pattern.

My first training in formal structure was a Sanskrit grammatical tradition, long before computer science. That is why this site has a whole wing on Chitrakāvya, the Sanskrit practice of poems that are also diagrams and algorithms. Some questions never leave you.

## What I care about

Nature first. I love nature, and alignment with it is what I seek: long treks through Himalayan terrain, meditation, music. Then beauty, philosophy, mathematics and science. Yoga is the oldest engineering manual for awareness I know of, and I read it next to papers on agents, memory and alignment.

Mathematics and nature are where most of my wonder lives: fractals and self-similarity, higher-order structure, and optimization, the question of what a system is really minimising when it looks like it is learning.

## What you will find here

-   Essays on the mind, yoga and the practice of awareness.
-   AI, AGI and the society of agents: emergence, alignment, what comes next.
-   Mathematics: fractals, higher-order structure, optimization, and the proofs I keep returning to.
-   Side research I cannot put down.
-   Notes from building, reading and walking in the mountains.

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