Karan Diwan


Dovere is my hand, tho small,
May I not add with truth;
I do my best to please you all,
Encourage then my youth.
- The Maillardet Automaton, 1800


I build systems from first principles to understand how structure gives rise to computation, and how computation gives rise to intelligence.


I explore intelligence, thought, language and machinery through the lens of computation investigating how simple logical components combine to form memory, control and learning.

My work moves from low-level systems and stored-program architectures to hardware-level learning models.

I am drawn to questions at the boundary of structure and intelligence: how physical systems can implement abstraction, adaptation, and decision-making.


This site is a record of that exploration.


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