About me
My name is Cameron Pfiffer.
I work at Letta. We build infrastructure for self-improving AI systems.
I am a recovering financial economist.
See my blog. Find me on Bluesky.
Values
I value:
- Personal integrity
- Clarity
- Kindness
- Simplicity
- Curiousity
- Partnership
- Curiousity
- Partnership
Background
I'm an engineer, AI person, statistician, economist, and hammock enthusiast. I like writing code for supercomputers. I love code, rowing, and pianos. Learning is my favorite thing.
I'm a big lover of the Julia programming language. I've worked on the Turing.jl project for Bayesian inference.
I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's GSB. I worked on industrial organization with Shoshana Vasserman. I received my PhD in finance from the University of Oregon. I have a master's in finance from the ICMA Centre at the Henley Business School (which itself is part of the University of Reading), and a BSc in Technical Theater from Southern Oregon University. I was a developer for Turing.jl, a probabilistic programming tool.
I used to be an alpaca rancher and work for Cirque du Soleil. I'm really fun at parties, and I am a fantastic dancer.
What's on this site
What I like
I tend to focus on computational topics in lots of domains, though generally I am an economist. I am currently interested in:
- Generative AI and NLP
- AI systems
- ATProtocol
- Neural network architectures
- Type systems and compilers
- Industrial organization
- Asset pricing
- Bayesian statistics
Favorite programming languages:
- Julia because it's fast and fun to write!
- Rust because someone told me I should learn C and I thought this was cooler.
- R because I am a masochist.
- Mathematica because I forget how to take derivatives.