Memos by Brian Swichkow

Geoffrey von Maltzahn
Geoffrey von Maltzahn is an American biological engineer, scientist, and serial entrepreneur working at the intersection of biology and data science. A general partner at Flagship Pioneering since...
Andrew Beam
Andrew Beam is a machine-learning researcher and Chief Technology Officer of Lila Sciences, where he leads its work on AI for scientific discovery. His research spans machine learning, biomedicine...
Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences (styled LILA) is a privately held company building what it describes as the world’s first scientific superintelligence — a platform pairing AI with fully autonomous laboratories across...
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering is a life-sciences venture-creation firm founded in 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Noubar Afeyan and Ed Kania. Rather than investing mainly in outside startups, it conceives...
George Church
George Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer and serial entrepreneur, known for foundational work in genome sequencing, personal genomics and synthetic biology. He is the Robert...
Josh Waitzkin
Josh Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film...
Kenneth Stanley
Kenneth Stanley is an artificial-intelligence researcher and author known for founding work in neuroevolution and open-ended search. He is Senior Vice President of Open-endedness at Lila Sciences. He...
Chris Fussell
Chris Fussell is a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, organizational-leadership author, and Vice Chair of Lila Sciences. He spent about 15 years in the SEAL Teams and served as aide-de-camp to Lieutenant...
Abliterated Model
An abliterated model is an open-weight Large Language Model (LLM) whose built-in tendency to refuse requests has been removed by editing its weights directly, without retraining, so it answers...
TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI is a San Francisco artificial intelligence company that builds System One models: models that return typed, calibrated decisions such as a choice, a score, or a probability for software...
Jev
Jev is a System One model from TypeSafe AI — an ai-model that returns typed, probabilistic decisions instead of generated text. Released September 15, 2026 in early access, it takes a block of...
Jev Images
Jev Images is a feature of Jev that lets requests to TypeSafe's System One API include PNG and JPEG images, so the model can answer typed questions about what a picture shows and, through Box...
1Password
1Password is a subscription password-manager made by AgileBits that stores passwords, passkeys, two-factor codes, and other secrets in an encrypted vault synced across a user's devices. 1Password...
LastPass
LastPass is a password manager generates, secures, and manages your online credentials. When a website is visited where credentials are present, the browser-extension will insert them. When leading a...
How to Protect Your Accounts During Black October
How to protect your accounts during Black October, the wave of breaches and software flaws hitting the internet in late October 2026, in about an hour spread across a few days. You don't need to...
YubiKey
YubiKey is a hardware security key made by Yubico that proves a user's identity at login with a physical touch, providing phishing-resistant two-factor-authentication for accounts and devices. A...
Clay Sequencer
Sequencer is a feature of Clay that runs cold outbound campaigns from the workspace's own data: dynamic lead lists from Clay Audiences, signals, or Clay's people database, AI-personalized copy,...
Railway
Railway is a cloud platform that deploys applications, databases, and background services directly from a Git repository without requiring the user to configure the infrastructure underneath. Founded...
Sure Personal Finance
Sure is an open-source, self-hosted personal finance app maintained by the we-promise community as a fork of the archived Maybe Finance codebase, distributed under AGPLv3. It tracks accounts,...
Constrained Decoding Models (CDMs)
Constrained Decoding Models (CDMs) are ScaleDown's narrow ai-model family, each trained for a single task and restricted to returning only the answers that task allows. ScaleDown offers four CDMs —...