Prince's writing on technology, science, startups, and education.https://thisisprince.com/en-gbhttps://thisisprince.com/blog/dropping-out-of-oxford/https://thisisprince.com/blog/dropping-out-of-oxford/Ironically, I'm writing this post a few hours after watching Paul Graham speak live at the Oxford Union (thanks Daniel for adding me as a guest). Ironic beca...Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/thoughts-on-being-pro-defence-and-national-security-pilled/https://thisisprince.com/blog/thoughts-on-being-pro-defence-and-national-security-pilled/Some of the most important work happening anywhere right now is being done at companies like Anduril and Palantir. Drones, autonomous systems, serious softwa...Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:30:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/checking-out-models-fine-tuning-to-suggest-chessgpts-understanding/https://thisisprince.com/blog/checking-out-models-fine-tuning-to-suggest-chessgpts-understanding/Project by Mani, Prince, Sassan & Yusuf. The team with the most juj about them at Arbox3. This blog post was written by Yusuf. Context This is a wri...Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:59:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/the-potential-for-mirror-bacteria-to-cause-unprecedented-and-irreversible-harm/https://thisisprince.com/blog/the-potential-for-mirror-bacteria-to-cause-unprecedented-and-irreversible-harm/This short post introduces a potentially devastating hypothetical form of life assuming no background knowledge from readers. It's split up into the foll...Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:46:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/3-takeaways-from-3-months-at-ef-as-a-talent-investor/https://thisisprince.com/blog/3-takeaways-from-3-months-at-ef-as-a-talent-investor/I was fortunate enough to be offered an internship as a Talent Investor at Entrepreneurs First over summer in 2025. I believe that the last 3 months have bee...Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:45:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/reflections-on-an-ai-security-hackathon-we-ran/https://thisisprince.com/blog/reflections-on-an-ai-security-hackathon-we-ran/Crossposted and written by Josh Muthu & Prince Kumar For the last 3 months, we’ve both been interning at Entrepreneurs First (EF), a company that helps ta...Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:02:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/takeaways-from-how-to-be-a-founder/https://thisisprince.com/blog/takeaways-from-how-to-be-a-founder/I borrowed 'How to be a Founder' by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford from EF's shelf. I probably wouldn't have read it if it wasn't free to borrow from the o...Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:21:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/applying-stochastic-gradient-descent/https://thisisprince.com/blog/applying-stochastic-gradient-descent/SGD is an optimisation algorithm that updates model parameters using the gradient of the loss function w.r.t. the parameters on a small and random subset of ...Wed, 28 May 2025 21:09:00 GMThttps://thisisprince.com/blog/7-steps-to-build-a-horse-classifier-with-fastai/https://thisisprince.com/blog/7-steps-to-build-a-horse-classifier-with-fastai/The FastAI Course is "A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to pra...Wed, 28 May 2025 13:31:00 GMT