Blog – Jaime Ruiz Serra

Beyond Individual Power

PIBBSS mid-program presentation. Information-theoretic empowerment, capability-based power, and towards coalitional notions of power.

Tools for research

Here is a list of applications/tools I have found useful.

Google Antigravity, reading papers

Create a skill/rule: ``` rule name: pdf-reading context: Always use the view_file tool to read academic pdfs. Don’t use any python lib. ``` Then, list the PDF in the workspace

Use Gemini through Brave Browser’s Leo AI

First generate an API key via https://aistudio.google.com/api-keys.

Stewarding Power in Human-AI Collectives

Drafted for my PIBBSS fellowship application under a 2-hour proctored time limit, using a restricted single text box interface without copy-paste functionality and no…

LLM calls as pure functions

It is useful to frame LLM calls as pure (i.e., stateless) functions¹.

(AAMAS 2025) Factorised Active Inference for Strategic Multi-Agent Interactions

TL;DR: By factorising the generative model of AIF agents, they can maintain individual beliefs about others while planning strategically in a joint context. We employ game…

Translating an unwieldy codebase

I got access to a model that I want to use as a baseline for my research, but (i) it is in MATLAB and I prefer to work in Python, and (ii) it consists of a single 1000-line…

Learning scene representations for human-assistive displays using self-attention networks

Published in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
Free access, DOI:10.1145/3650111

GitHub Copilot AI for free (for students and academics)

I learned we can get free access to GitHub Copilot (AI programming assistant, built into VS Code), and wanted to share the process in case you are interested. Note the…

Complexity, Criticality, Computation Symposium (C3) 2023

The C3-2023 Symposium took place in Heron Island, QLD, Australia, in January 2023. Complex Systems researchers from around the globe got together for an enriching week of…

Review article: Inverse Reinforcement Learning as the Algorithmic Basis for Theory of Mind

Published in MDPI Algorithms
Open Access, DOI:10.3390/a16020068

Finding the vanishing point in images

First download a sample image.

An End to Exporting Entropy and Obscuring Accountability

Poverty, as defined by the World Bank, includes a shortfall in income and consumption, poor health and nutritional outcomes, low educational attainment, lack of access to…

Towards an Ecological Ethics

As I leave the comfort of my desk to go grocery shopping, I face, week after week, the following dilemma. On one hand, I would like to spend as little as possible in order…