Essays from a personal atelier across research, writing, and music.https://riverbottega.com/en-UShttps://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-12-why-one-person-can-go-broad-and-deep/https://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-12-why-one-person-can-go-broad-and-deep/For two centuries, you couldn't be both broad and deep. You had to choose. That trade-off is collapsing — not because anyone is suddenly smarter, but because the cost of operating in a field has dropped by an order of magnitude. A note from one bottega trying to live in that change.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-10-deep-learning-is-editable/https://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-10-deep-learning-is-editable/We treat deep learning as something you train, not something you fix. That's a habit, not a fact. I edited 590,000 parameters in GPT-2 — half a percent of the model — and corrected six wrong answers without damaging anything else.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-10-the-address-number-is-the-distance/https://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-10-the-address-number-is-the-distance/Most people in Korea — including most who use Korean addresses every day — don't know that the building number in a road name address is a distance. Gangnam-daero 300 is approximately 3,000 meters from where Gangnam-daero begins. Literally. The math is in the law. Almost no system uses it.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-09-bottega-opens/https://riverbottega.com/notes/2026-05-09-bottega-opens/A solo founder's case for the workshop model — and why the polymath identity is the moat, not the bug.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT