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20 December 2024
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
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Time's Up for AI Policy
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
LLMs OpenAI
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This "memorize, fetch, apply" paradigm can achieve arbitrary levels of skills at arbitrary tasks given appropriate training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or pick up new skills on the fly (which is to say that there is no fluid intelligence at play here.)
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OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs.
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Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”
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Will all our drugs come from China?
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18 December 2024
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
17 December 2024
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
On changing their mind
I used to cast a much wider net, like I felt like people ought to get to interview anyone who was being hired over them.
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking
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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
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Rovelli describes quantum concepts in an approachable way.
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one in a series about the CIA’s efforts to subvert Russian spies
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He is the single most successful car designer in the history of Formula One, having won many championships.
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I’ve read every one of his books, & this is the most recent
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Matthew Dicks is an award-winning storyteller.
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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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OHTO MS01 all-metal drafting pencil
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Kakimori aluminum ballpoint pen
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LAMY Safari fountain pen (specifically the Pikachu one!)
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LAMY Pico ballpoint pen
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Sharpie S-Gel pen
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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
Not really surprised. I migrated my blog from Gatsby to Astro last February. No regrets, it just works like a charm ✨ If you're looking for something to build your blog or any other content-driven website, I highly recommend it! Quoting @astro.build The State of JS is out. Astro is now the #2 most-used framework, and #1 in retention and positivity. Thanks for showing up this year astronauts 🏆 Related
16 December 2024
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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A high-quality newsletter on everything iOS and Swift with lots of easily digestible content.
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high-quality conversations with engineers, leaders, innovators in the tech world.
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discussions from software engineering leaders, with a focus on Asia and Europe.
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14 December 2024
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
ADVANCED HOOPING Now that I’ve used the Ceado Hoop brewer for several months, I have a few tips to share with readers. Although the Hoop produces beautiful extractions more easily than any other brewer, every brewer has a…
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12 December 2024
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
11 December 2024
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
10 December 2024
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
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Anyway that’s why I’m using Cloudflare Workers for my AI agent stuff. Race you to the finish line.
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Workers AI has dope models for your use. No API keys when used inside Workers.
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9 December 2024
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
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Debanking (and Debunking?)
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Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.
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AI data and Theories of Change
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Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
7 December 2024
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
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Low Spanish Costs are not About Decentralization
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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
6 December 2024
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Come and get me (both you and AI)
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5 December 2024
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
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Vertical farming: a local solution for greens, but not feeding the world any time soon
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A number of studies, conducting full life-cycle analyses, have found that vertical farms currently have a higher carbon footprint than conventional outdoor farming.
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energy
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Without some crazy technological breakthrough, cereals are are going to be an outdoor-only crop for a long time.
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What stands in the way is energy demand. Growing crops indoors is energy-intensive. So we’re really swapping a land problem for an energy one.
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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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There is no better time than now to read E. H. Carr’s The twenty years’ crisis 1919 39
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4 December 2024
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
3 December 2024
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
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I use the Cursor IDE regularly, and especially for the braindead stuff, I’m mostly hitting tab to autocomplete.
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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
Off to read the lesson @ St Giles Cathedral this evening. Now there’s a sentence I never expected to utter! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 to @Trussell for giving me the chance to support their food bank work. Related
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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Whether you already know a lot about the ’60s or you’re just dipping your toe into those waters, whether you want a deep dive into the art of political writing or a charming story about a married couple who adored each other, you’ll get it from An Unfinished Love Story.
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One of the coolest aspects of Engineering in Plain Sight is how it ties everyday observations to larger engineering principles.
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The Anxious Generation is a must-read for anyone raising, working with, or teaching young people today.
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Most of the coverage of The Coming Wave has focused on what it has to say about artificial intelligence—which makes sense, given that it's one of the most important books on AI ever written.
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1 December 2024
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
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Does Women’s Rise trigger Backlash?
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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
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I won't spoil anything by saying more but the novel is really lovely and captivating, pulling surprising meaning and depth from repetition.
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Point being that it was probably inevitable I would love this short and absurd novel about a sexagenarian Roman general who is obsessed with staging the sole play he ever wrote—back as a precocious young artist—over and over again.
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Like the previous two books, this one is short (just under 200 pages) and written in lively prose and fast-moving chapters.
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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
30 November 2024
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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It Is Time To Build The Monster Scope
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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
29 November 2024
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
28 November 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
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Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning
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27 November 2024
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
24 November 2024
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
23 November 2024
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
22 November 2024
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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Featurebase.app bug and feedback board
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Stripe Billing Portal for changing and canceling subcription
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1 founder who's also developer, designer, marketing (use ChatGPT to help with those)
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Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=.... In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and to the left. Related
21 November 2024
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
20 November 2024
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
19 November 2024
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
18 November 2024
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
17 November 2024
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
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Warp
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Trying Warp instead of my usual iTerm
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Trying Fish instead of my usual Oh My Zsh
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While Raycast already has window management, Rectangle lets you hit the hotkey again
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I've since moved to Raycast window management.
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sign in to load saved settings for my MX Ergo
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13 November 2024
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
A Deep Dive into Cup of Excellence My sincere thanks to Peter Jones of Idle Hands Roasting and Trident Cafe, and to Benjamin Paz of Beneficio San Vicente, for their help with this post. If you enjoy this post and want to help increase awareness of Cup of…
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12 November 2024
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
9 November 2024
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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Solar and batteries for generic use cases
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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
8 November 2024
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
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Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz?
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The downside is that synthetic quartz is much more expensive, perhaps on the order of 5–10 times the cost of natural high-purity quartz.
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Spruce Pine quartz isn’t quite an irreplaceable linchpin in semiconductor manufacturing.
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Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
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Two alignment threat models
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7 November 2024
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
6 November 2024
Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.
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Everything I know about programming language theory, I owe to this site.
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worrydream.com
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Online library of research papers.
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Collected writings of one of the founders of computer science.
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Essays on creative and analytical approaches to game design.
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Superb rhyming dictionary.
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Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
can i take this back Quoting @dkedrosky quick reminder for everybody Related
5 November 2024
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
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1 November 2024
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
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Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?
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31 October 2024
Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.
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Mind candy, historical creature-feature thriller: in which the US military, in the form of the very worst ship in Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, comes up against beasts which are not oversized plesiosaurs. (Exactly what they are instead would be a minor spoiler.) I have no idea how I found this online, but it's perfectly enjoyable as a specimen of the genre.
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I forget (again!) how I chanced across it, but it fills a very real need for a lot of the students in my inequality class, and I intend to make it recommended/optional reading in the future. (I'll have to see if the library can buy a digital copy.)
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Mind candy, horror/contemporary fantasy: the first four "Sonja Blue" novels.
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Mind candy, horror/contemporary fantasy: the first four "Sonja Blue" novels.
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Mind candy, horror/contemporary fantasy: the first four "Sonja Blue" novels.
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30 October 2024
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
If you're tired of "hope this message finds you well," try starting your emails like this letter from Giordano Bruno (c. 1583) Related
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
AI Flame Graphs: Showing what's actually running on the HW and how we got there. Uses Intel EU stall profiling and eBPF. Related
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
On spooky animals I’ve been thinking a lot about ghosts lately. No, not because it’s October. That sort of seasonal interest in ghosts is for amateurs, and your girlie is thinking about ghosts 24/7 365. I don’t get ready for spooky seaso…
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Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
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29 October 2024
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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The Google Gemini series are my favourite multi-modal models right now due to the size and breadth of content they support.
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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
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You might be skeptical of using synthetic data. After all, it’s not real data, so how can it be a good proxy? In my experience, it works surprisingly well. Some of my favorite AI products, like Hex use synthetic data to power their evals
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28 October 2024
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
25 October 2024
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
Co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management. He wrote The Reformed Broker for over a decade, now publishes the Downtown Josh Brown newsletter, and co-hosts The Compound and Friends.
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He has been a confidant of Buffett and Munger, a co-author with Daniel Kahneman, an editor on two revised editions of Ben Graham’s masterpiece The Intelligent Investor, considered to be the best book on investing ever written.
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24 October 2024
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
23 October 2024
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
New study out today! We had a bunch of Democrats and Republicans do an Ideological Turing Test. People either portrayed themselves or pretended to be from the opposite party, and then another group tried to pick out the real partisans from the fake ones: Related
22 October 2024
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
21 October 2024
Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
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Are Games Bad?
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20 October 2024
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
19 October 2024
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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You’re Not Paranoid. The Market Is Out to Get You.
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Investing isn't about mastering the markets; it's about mastering yourself.
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Thanks to today's incessantly twitchy, infinitely networked markets, it has never been harder to be a disciplined and independent investor.
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18 October 2024
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
17 October 2024
Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.
16 October 2024
Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.
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Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449
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The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, YDIH for short, is not a lunatic fringe theory as its opponents often attempt to write it off. It’s the work of more than 60 major scientists working across many different disciplines, including archeology and including oceanography as well.
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I’m not persuaded by that, particularly since we know there was a nasty epoch, the Younger Dryas, when flooding did occur, and when the Earth was subjected to events cataclysmic enough to extinguish entirely the megafauna of the ice age.
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And I don’t feel that that can be a coincidence. I feel that what we are looking at is an inheritance of an idea, a legacy that’s been passed down from a remote common source to cultures all around the world, and that has taken on a life of its own within those cultures.
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It’s clear that Göbekli Tepe now was not the beginning of this process. It was actually in a way, the end of this process.
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It’s often said that I’m claiming to have proved that there was an advanced lost civilization in the Ice Age. And I am not claiming to have proved that. That is a hypothesis that I’m putting forward to answer some of the questions that I have about prehistory.
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Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
When should I use String vs &str? Rust has two main string types: String and &str . Sometimes, people argue that these two types make Rust code difficult to write, because you have to think about which one you should be using in a given situation. My ex…
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14 October 2024
Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
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Response to DHH
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If WP Engine didn’t want this to happen, they should not have published their code under the GPL or distributed it through WordPress.org’s directory.
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Response to DHH ma.tt
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I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH, who, while I disagree with him on several points, isn’t the actual villain in this story: it’s WP Engine and Silver Lake.
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open source
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Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.
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open source
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I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.
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Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.
startups
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My suggested approach would be more capital intensive while retaining a lot of risk until fairly late in development. I am not sure it’s fundable.
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Cargo airship margins, therefore, can be much higher than I had realized.
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Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
13 October 2024
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
11 October 2024
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
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But otherwise, yes, absolutely. This is one of my favorite Sci-Fi novels I've read.
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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
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LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem
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LLMs
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Another manifestation of the lack of sufficiently abstract, formal reasoning in LLMs is the way in which performance often fall apart as problems are made bigger.
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garymarcus.substack.com
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Neurosymbolic AI — combining such machinery with neural networks – is likely a necessary condition for going forward.
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Writer and consultant on technology, organizations and history; founded the blog Ribbonfarm and now writes the Contraptions newsletter.
10 October 2024
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Fascinating subject. Countries are made of stories. Kings didn’t need their subjects to agree, but nations do. So to build a nation, they need to make a story that helps people feel a shared identity, nationalism, and what distinguishes them from their neighbors. Back-creating a history. Founders of Israel did this brilliantly.
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sive.rs
7 October 2024
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
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This is a worthy entry in the genre. It suffers a bit from extensive plot not about banking and characters who barely speak to dragons. But all of that irrelevant fluff makes it one of the most underrated fantasy series I’ve ever read.
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bitsaboutmoney.com
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This is a pity, and if you can find it, it is very worth your time.
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bitsaboutmoney.com
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The Phoenix Project is actually assigned at some infrastructure companies, because the narrative makes the pedagogy about project management go down more easily.
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The Social Network is substantially made up, more a source for vibes rather than a source for facts. Even the vibes fail to cohere with reality. And yet it convinced many proto-founders to put in YC applications.
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bitsaboutmoney.com
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do check out Complex Systems if you haven't already. It is in your podcast-delivery-vehicle of choice or at the website
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bitsaboutmoney.com
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
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Fighting for our web
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And it doesn’t always take a job at The New York Times or a huge pre-established platform to become one of the voices speaking up, helping to turn that tide.
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Fighting for our web citationneeded.news
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Websites outside of these handful of social networks are harder and harder to even find, and partially because of that, they have a harder and harder time sustaining themselves.
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Fighting for our web citationneeded.news
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What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.
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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
4 October 2024
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
2 October 2024
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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The required organizational transition is equivalent in scope and difficulty to the Apollo program, and will be made or broken during the tenure of the next NASA administrator.
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At the time I was optimistic, now I am not.
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1 October 2024
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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Writes and Write-Nots
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Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write.
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Writes and Write-Nots paulgraham.com
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The reason so many people have trouble writing is that it's fundamentally difficult. To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.
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Writes and Write-Nots paulgraham.com
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There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.
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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Personal news: I'm joining @AnthropicAI! 😄 Anthropic's approach to AI development resonates significantly with my own beliefs; looking forward to contributing to Anthropic's mission of developing powerful AI systems responsibly. Can't wait to work with their talented team, including a number of great ex-colleagues from OpenAI and Google, and tackle the challenges ahead! Anthropic OpenAI Related
30 September 2024
Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.
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Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446
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In fact, there’s one that’s now pushing 6000 BCE. That’s thousands of years before the stuff in Egypt. And that one’s called Huaca Prieta. And it was not an Egyptian pyramid, but it was a pyramid and it was thousands of years before.
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America
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One of the fascinating things that DNA is showing us, which actually blood types were showing us way before that, is that the oldest people in the Americas are in South America, the ones that got separated early and didn’t mix their DNA, like the people in the Amazon.
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youtube.com
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We see the traditional 12,500 years ago that there was a migration, but now we’re seeing one that’s almost certainly happening closer to 30,000 years ago.
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youtube.com
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I don’t think that Atlantis existed. I do think it was one of Plato’s many parables talking about putting it in an interesting story as a teaching device in his school.
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youtube.com
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For the vast majority of human existence, we’ve been nomadic and we’ve done these wider or tighter nomadic circles, depending on the geographic region, but they’d move. So once humans figured out how to stay in a place, that’s the initial trigger to what would become civilization.
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29 September 2024
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
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iTerm: Tmux is slow, prompt layout breaks when resizing the window.
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garden.narze.live
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Fira Code font: I just want the change of pace, this font is really good.
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garden.narze.live
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Sublime Text: On the later years (around the time of Atom editor), I got less and less updates. Then when I found that VSCode is fast enough, I moved.
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Timing - Time tracking app. It eats Gigabytes of space when I use it for 2-3 years.
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garden.narze.live
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Notion - Too slow to use, and my current team switched to Jira.
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garden.narze.live
27 September 2024
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
On changing their mind
I used to look for ways to make money, but I haven't done that in years. Now I keep looking for ways to want less.
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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Wealth = Have ÷ Want
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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
On side hustles I am adamantly opposed to the conception of grind culture. I swear to god, if you 💯💯💯 me, I will consider it a hate crime, and will report you to my local self-governance group for a reparative harm process. This isn…
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26 September 2024
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
open source
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This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.
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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
25 September 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
Another fun lil' alias: Quickly switch between git branches, listed in chronological order Suuuuuuper handy and something I use multiple times a day! gist attached: Related
24 September 2024
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
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Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer
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as the Bitcoin ecosystem matures, infrastructure improves, and more regulatory clarity emerges, I expect the frequency of these 'Black Swan' events to diminish over time.
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Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer lynalden.com
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Since then, these unconventional monetary policies have increasingly become the dominant force moving asset prices.
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Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer lynalden.com
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Bitcoin moves in the direction of global liquidity 83% of the time in any given 12-month period, which is higher than any other major asset class, making it a strong barometer of liquidity conditions.
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Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer lynalden.com
22 September 2024
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
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Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
21 September 2024
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
20 September 2024
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
Effective nonprofits The most striking fact about philanthropy to me is how little money rich people give away. It is well known that we all die, and that leaving overwhelming wealth to your children can make their lives worse not better, s…
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19 September 2024
Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.
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AI and Biology
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The "unknown unknown" problem makes hash (in retrospect) of many attempts at biological theorizing and modeling, and I think that this problem will still accrue to ML models until we know an awful lot more.
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AI and Biology web.archive.org
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Most proteins are essentially unannotated, with their functions completely or mostly unknown.
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I predict (with confidence bordering on arrogance) that whatever machine-learning progress can be made will correlate extremely closely with the quality of the data around any given problem
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17 September 2024
Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”
15 September 2024
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
Their words
The Hoop may be the perfect manual brewer for cafes, as baristas can simply pour and walk away, knowing that four minutes later, the Hoop will deliver an excellent extraction.
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Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
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13 September 2024
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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in which social media can be put in your own hands
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JavaScript
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when you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.
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technomancy.us
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If running a server is hard, fewer people are going to do it, and the power is going to be concentrated in the hands of a technical elite.
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12 September 2024
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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It's perfectly balanced right on the edge of too much—Incarnate is powerful and lush but you somehow never get sick of it. At once excessive and refined.
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Now I have an answer for this query: El Dorado. The funny thing is that "rain smell" isn't what we set out to do, or even the main point of this perfume.
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I don't think it's pretension, I think it's simply a fact that this perfume deserves to herald a new genre. I really have never smelled anything like it.
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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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In 10 years of using fish I have never found a single thing I wanted to configure. It just works the way I want.
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11 September 2024
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
10 September 2024
Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
9 September 2024
Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.
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Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymo
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7 September 2024
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
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The notebook is the place where you figure out what’s going on inside you or what’s rattling around. And then, the keyboard is the place that you go to tell people about it.
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austinkleon.com
5 September 2024
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
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Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?
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3 September 2024
Co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management. He wrote The Reformed Broker for over a decade, now publishes the Downtown Josh Brown newsletter, and co-hosts The Compound and Friends.
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No matter where you are in your investing journey, this book will help you reach a higher understanding of what’s really going on and why.
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2 September 2024
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
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I stand in awe of what author Jackie Cummings Koski has done here. This is a comprehensive overview of what FIRE is and how it is done, fashioned in the famous "for dummies" template. I wouldn't have known how to even begin to pull this together, let alone gotten it over the finish line in such fine form.
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So, embrace your setbacks and let Dave show you how to fail faster, cheaper and far more effectively.
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While I'm thinking about it, here's another of his books I quite enjoyed:
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This last one is kind of a cheat. I've only just begun reading it. But I have absolutely savored those first pages:
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For what it is worth, this is the only one of his 25 odd novels Joe Pickett novels that left me disappointed in the ending. See what you think.
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Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
1 September 2024
Theoretical computer scientist, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. Writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized.
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Having said all that: I confess I enjoyed "2040." The plot is tightly constructed, the dialogue crackles (certainly for a CS professor writing a first novel), the satire at least provokes chuckles, and at just 215 pages, the action moves.
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scottaaronson.blog
31 August 2024
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Then use free and lovely rsync to synchronize: rsync -av --delete desktop:/home/me /home/
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American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.
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Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art
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Let me offer another generalization: any writing that deserves your attention as a reader is the result of effort expended by the person who wrote it.
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Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art newyorker.com
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Believing that inspiration outweighs everything else is, I suspect, a sign that someone is unfamiliar with the medium.
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Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art newyorker.com
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What I’m saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception.
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26 August 2024
Founder and editor of Techdirt; coined the Streisand effect, and writes on platform liability, speech law and copyright.
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Durov’s Arrest Details Released, Leaving More Questions Than Answers
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Arrest Of Telegram’s Pavel Durov Raises Questions, But The Answers May Not Be Known For A While
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A lot of the things listed in the charge sheet are things that lots of websites and communications providers could be said to have done themselves, though perhaps to a different degree.
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But, here, it’s hard not to see that as totally pretextual: an excuse to arrest Durov over other stuff they don’t like him doing.
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Without the details, though, it’s really difficult to know if this is an attack on free speech, or legitimate charges over actual criminal behavior.
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On top of that, leaping to criminal charges against an exec over civil penalties for a company… seems strange.
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But, hosting bad behavior alone shouldn’t lead to criminal charges. Even ignoring law enforcement demands seems like it should lead to civil penalties before reaching criminal charges.
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25 August 2024
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
24 August 2024
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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If you buy a handful of index funds, sit on them for decades and never do another thing, you're likely to outperform nearly everyone who tries to beat the market by trading-including most professionals.
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22 August 2024
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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The end of the great order under the Heaven
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Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
21 August 2024
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
On body count I’m not really on twitter that much anymore because of all the generalised unpleasantness. I mostly go to let people know I have done something that they can go read, watch, or listen to, and then I scuttle away to frit…
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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
20 August 2024
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440
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OpenAI Google
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They could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.
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youtube.com
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And I check if there’s demand and if people actually sign up and not just sign up, but if people actually pay money. They need to take out their credit cards, pay me money, and then I can see if the idea is validated.
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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
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Praise for Price-Gouging
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19 August 2024
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce -- the origins and cultural context of Fairchild and Intel.
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patrickcollison.com
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Revolution in The Valley -- a hundred stories from the early days of the Mac, collected by one of its creators.
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Swimming Across -- Andy Grove's memoir.
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There's a closely-related genre of great books (like Masters of Doom and Show-Stopper) that cover important projects in the industry's history.
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There's a closely-related genre of great books (like Masters of Doom and Show-Stopper) that cover important projects in the industry's history.
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18 August 2024
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
16 August 2024
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
13 August 2024
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
12 August 2024
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
11 August 2024
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
10 August 2024
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
rqlite now supports loadable SQLite extensions - check out release 8.27, and the demo of rqlite running sqlean from @ohmypy and sqlite-vec from @agarcia_me . philipotoole.com
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9 August 2024
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
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The Days Are Long but the Years Are Short
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8 August 2024
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
7 August 2024
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
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For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.
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I use MAMP for WordPress development, Postman for API testing, Notion for notes and task management, Slack and Discord for communication and Keynote for course presentations.
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This website is built with SvelteKit, hosted on Netlify and the code is hosted on GitHub. Amazon's S3 and CloudFront are used to host some assets.
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I use GoDaddy for domain names.
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alialaa.dev
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I use Sendy for newsletters. It's a self-hosted service which uses Amazon Simple Email Service. It's written using PHP and thus it needs the LAMP stack to be hosted. I use a DigitalOcean droplet with the LAMP stack installed to host it.
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5 August 2024
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
George B. Field, 1929-2024 George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31. He was my Ph.D. thesis advisor and one of my favorite people in the world. I often tell my own stude…
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Former NASA flight director and space shuttle programme manager; writes about how the shuttle was actually flown and what went wrong.
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Flight Rationale
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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
4 August 2024
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
2 August 2024
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
1 August 2024
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
Nix developer tools
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I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.
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I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
31 July 2024
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
30 July 2024
Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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Read The Parasitic Mind
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29 July 2024
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
An Open Course on LLMs, Led by Practitioners Today, we are releasing Mastering LLMs, a set of workshops and talks from practitioners on topics like evals, retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG), fine-tuning and more. This course is unique because it is: Taught by 25…
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26 July 2024
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
25 July 2024
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
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Building A Generative AI Platform
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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
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Are Games Good?
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I don’t think games make the world a better place, it’s actually much worse than that, I think games, like other artforms, make the world a place.
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Are Games Good? franklantz.substack.com
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But I also think that, if you really want to understand games, you should learn how to play these games. Which means learning how to stop playing them. You should learn how to disappear into them, how to let them swallow you whole, and then learn how to extract yourself, safely, on the other side.
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Addiction
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The world is full of gambling games that want to crawl into your limbic system and drain every last ounce of life-force from your soul.
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24 July 2024
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
$656,000 of Frugal Things I Still Love Doing “I used to read Mr. Money Mustache”, some people say these days, “Until he got all rich and fancy so that he no longer understands the common person’s plight. Stash probably doesn’t even practice any of these money-savi…
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22 July 2024
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
21 July 2024
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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Categories of leadership on technical teams
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Good project management is barely visible-it just feels like "things humming along."
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The bar I typically suggest is that the people manager doesn't need to have the most technical depth on the team, but they need enough depth that they can follow most discussions without slowing them down, understand who's correct in most debates without needing to rely on trust, and generally stay oriented easily.
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Team leadership covers a huge array of things-as you can see from how long this post is-and trying to find someone who can be great at all of them is often a unicorn hunt.
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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
No More Blue Fridays In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code. Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of t…
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20 July 2024
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
18 July 2024
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
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Hash-Based Bisect Debugging in Compilers and Runtimes
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One of the hardest things about debugging is running a program backward: there's a data structure with a bad value, or the control flow has zigged instead of zagged, and it's very difficult to understand how it could have gotten into that state.
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But writing a trick down is the first step to making sure everyone can do it: magic tricks can be basic but not obvious.
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16 July 2024
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
15 July 2024
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
14 July 2024
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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1Password password manager which really checks off all the right boxes
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Karabiner-Elements Keyboard customizer with Caps Lock enhancement
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Error Lens highlight the entire line wherever a diagnostic is generated and print the message inline.
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GitLens Find out who to blame quicker—spoiler, it's you.
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Todo Tree search your workspace for comment tags like TODO and FIXME, and display them in a tree view. 🌳
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13 July 2024
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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ChatGPT Code Interpreter has been one of my favourite AI tools for over a year.
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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly
2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
12 July 2024
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
11 July 2024
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
8 July 2024
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
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Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm
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open source
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From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.
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open source
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Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.
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open source
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I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.
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7 July 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
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Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMs
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Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
5 July 2024
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
Pudding: user discovery for anonymity networks I’d like to introduce an exciting new research paper I worked on! It’s about a system called Pudding, and it was presented by Ceren at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of the top academic conferences on c…
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3 July 2024
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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I suspect - but haven't verified - that in many corpora, we will encounter fairly bimodal Jaccard values - two clusters, near 1 and 0.
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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
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Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Germany, 2019, CC) 3.6 When thinking about the most overlooked female artist, Artemesia Gentileschi often comes to mind. This documentary makes a persuasive case for Hilma af Klint. To my eyes, her most appealing works are not the large scale abstractions, rather it’s the small Klee-like gems that stand out. Don’t assume that if you have seen a half dozen of her most famous works that you have any conception of her overall career.
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State and Main (US, 2000, CC) 3.6 Not quite top level Mamet, but consistently entertaining and full of great actors. Rebecca Pidgeon is especially outstanding, overshadowing even the great Philip Hoffman.
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You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Japan, 1955, CC) 3.5 Chishu Ryu is one of my favorite actors, but he has a fairly small role. Very nice cinematography. Recommended for fans of nostalgia.
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Dry Summer (Turkey, 1964, CC) 3.5 I wasn’t sure I wanted to see a 50-year old Turkish film about farmers fighting over water rights. I did. There’s a reason Scorsese put this surprisingly entertaining film on his global cinema list.
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Clouds of Sils Maria (Swiss/French, 2014, CC) 3.5 Very good acting and good enough screenplay (even if some of the themes seem a bit warmed over.)
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2 July 2024
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
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How to (and not to) become a more effective therapist
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1 July 2024
Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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Some audiobook recommendations: The Story of Civilization by Durant Iliad (Penguin Edition) The Road to Serfdom by Hayek American Caesar by Manchester Masters of Doom by Kushner The Wages of Destruction by Tooze The Storm of Steel by Junger The Guns of August by Tuchman
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Some audiobook recommendations: The Story of Civilization by Durant Iliad (Penguin Edition) The Road to Serfdom by Hayek American Caesar by Manchester Masters of Doom by Kushner The Wages of Destruction by Tooze The Storm of Steel by Junger The Guns of August by Tuchman
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Some audiobook recommendations: The Story of Civilization by Durant Iliad (Penguin Edition) The Road to Serfdom by Hayek American Caesar by Manchester Masters of Doom by Kushner The Wages of Destruction by Tooze The Storm of Steel by Junger The Guns of August by Tuchman
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Stalin: Court of the Red Czar by Montefiore
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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
Years ago someone told me they were invited to a women's lunch in New York hosted by Jill Biden and ahead of the event they were all told in an email that Jill Biden requested no awkward silences Quoting @AlexThomp Jill Biden is on the July cover of Vogue. Just dropped this AM. Related
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
The recording of our talk for the ICLR'24 test-of-time award (with @wellingmax) is now available online: https://t.co/uY5tG2aCUd Biggest live audience I've ever spoken to, with >2000 attendees 😅. But it was a lot of fun! Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
30 June 2024
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
29 June 2024
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
Gwern Recommends 29 Jun 2024
Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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Overall, required viewing for any Winehouse fan and of general psychiatric interest; possibly too painful to watch for others.
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Excellent character-study/drama about the price of fame, the sincerest forms of flattery, and a little meta-fictionally, the psychology of the theatre and Broadway being usurped by Hollywood
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one of the best movies I’ve seen all year, well worth paying to see on the big screen
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For a compelling depiction of how this might feel from the inside, I strongly recommend John Carpenter’s movie They Live
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It is excellent to watch on a big screen in 3D despite how silly it ultimately is, so I’m not surprised it’s been successful.
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27 June 2024
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
24 June 2024
Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
23 June 2024
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
22 June 2024
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
21 June 2024
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Your AI Product Needs Evals by Hamel Husain remains my favourite piece of writing on how to go about putting these together.
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Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
20 June 2024
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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There Avineri draws on his excellent book published in 1968
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19 June 2024
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.
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Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434
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And also this is where I believe the whole prompt engineering, trying to be a good prompt engineer is not going to be a long-term thing. I think you want to make products work where a user doesn’t even ask for something, but you know that they want it and you give it to them without them even asking for it.
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Google startups
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You can set out to build a good business and it’s still fine. Maybe the long-term business model of Perplexity can make us profitable in a good company, but never as profitable in a cash cow as Google was. You have to remember that it’s still okay.
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Google
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What is the weakness of Google is that any ad unit that’s less profitable than a link, or any ad unit that kind of disincentivizes the link click is not in their interest to go aggressive on, because it takes money away from something that’s higher margins.
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Google
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We would rather take a more dramatic position, that the best way to actually make a dent in the search space is to not try to do what Google does, but try to do something they don’t want to do. For them to do this for every single query is a lot of money to be spent, because their search volume is so much higher.
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The principle in Perplexity is you’re not supposed to say anything that you don’t retrieve, which is even more powerful than RAG because RAG just says, “Okay, use this additional context and write an answer.” But we say, “Don’t use anything more than that too.” That way we ensure a factual grounding.
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18 June 2024
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
17 June 2024
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
14 June 2024
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
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About Me
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I don't teach people languages, I teach them how they can learn languages by themselves.
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Everybody can learn a language if they know how.
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I'm convinced that it's not possible to teach anyone a language. A good teacher can help you on this journey – but they cannot give the language to you on a silver platter.
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13 June 2024
Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.
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Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433
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But mathematics too, and it’s interesting because people think that math has this Platonic reality that exists outside of our universe, and I think it’s a feature of our biosphere and it’s telling us something about the structure of ourselves.
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Oh, if it’s not chemical. So I think some of the things that have evolved on our biosphere I would call as much alive as chemistry, as a cell, but they seem much more abstract. So for example, I think language is alive, or at least life. I think memes are.
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And then you can go to chemical system. I don’t think that’s good either. I think there’s a confusion because life emerges in chemistry that life is chemical. I don’t think life is chemical. I think life emerges in chemistry because chemistry is the first thing the universe builds where it cannot exhaust all the possibilities, because the combinatorial space of chemistry is too large.
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That’s one of these standard different definitions that a lot of people in my field like to use in astrobiology is life as a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution, which I was once quoted as agreeing with, and I was really offended because I hate that definition. I think it’s terrible, and I think it’s terrible that people use it. I think every word in that definition is actually wrong as a descriptor of life.
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I think life obeys universal principles. I think there is some deep underlying explanatory framework that will tell us about the nature of life in the universe and will allow us to identify life that we can’t yet recognize because it’s too different.
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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
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Josh Hardman at Psychedelic Alpha provided a detailed live account of the advisory committee meeting, which I found very helpful in developing a more granular sense of how the meeting unfolded without having to watch it myself.
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11 June 2024
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
10 June 2024
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
9 June 2024
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
JavaScript
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My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter
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6 June 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
4 June 2024
Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.
3 June 2024
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
2 June 2024
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Ruby on Rails
On changing their mind
And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.
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Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
1 June 2024
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
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Monitor: LG UltraWide 34WP85C
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Keyboard: Keychron K2 (Hot-swappable) Wireless Mechanical Keyboard (Version 2)
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Main Headset: Sony WH-1000XM5
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Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3
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Chair: Steelcase Gesture office chair with cover in onyx black with headrest
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30 May 2024
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Zig's New CLI Progress Bar Explained Sometimes, programming projects are too easy and boring. Sometimes, they're too hard, never ending or producing subpar results. This past week I had the pleasure of completing a project that felt like maximum difficulty…
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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
29 May 2024
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.
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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.
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Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisis
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The biggest barrier of all, of course, is that the majority of neighborhoods are not allowed to add any housing at all.
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But understand that it’s ultimately a moral and political argument, not an empirical question of the ideal population or the exact level of housing demand in Santa Monica.
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So, when housing demand can’t be met in a given place, it doesn’t evaporate. It spills over. It goes somewhere.
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In fact — and this is a point that is, in my opinion, underappreciated by the pro-housing side — building a bunch of housing in Santa Monica would probably not lower rents in Santa Monica. It would bring more people to Santa Monica, creating lower rents elsewhere in Greater Los Angeles as the spillovers from Santa Monica lessened.
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Empirical data drawn from many different regions clearly shows that, on a metropolitan scale, rents tend to rise when vacancy rates are low and stabilize when vacancy rates are high.
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28 May 2024
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
25 May 2024
Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.
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Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430
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So that’s why I think this is a thing that I come back to over and over again, is that you will retain information better if you’re constantly pushing yourself to your limit. If you are feeling like you’re coasting, then you’re actually not learning
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So if you remember this information in different times in different places, it’s more accessible at different times in different places because it’s not overfitted in an AI way of thinking about things. It’s not overfitted to one particular context. But that’s also why the memories that we call upon the most also feel like they’re just things that we read about almost.
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if I just try to do half-an-hour and then later in the day I do half-an-hour, I won’t retain that information as long as if I do half-an-hour today and half-an-hour one week from now. So doing that extra spacing should help me retain the information better.
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is this idea that we form these internal models at particular points of high prediction error or points of, I believe also points of uncertainty, points of surprise or motivationally significant periods. And those points are when it’s maximally optimal to encode an episodic memory.
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What I say in the book is is that you don’t want to remember more, you want to remember better, which means focusing on the things that are important. That’s what our brains are designed to do.
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24 May 2024
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.
23 May 2024
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
"Mechanistic interpretability never does anything useful" they said "It'll never beat a standard baseline" they said "Talk to me when you ship something" they said Ahem: Quoting @AnthropicAI This week, we showed how altering internal "features" in our AI, Claude, could change its behavior. We found a feature that can make Claude focus intensely on the Golden Gate Bridge. Now, for a limited time, you can chat with Golden Gate Claude: Related
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
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Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
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In the early days, the DE1 was considered "unforgiving" by many. I didn't mind, as the DE1's ability to control shot parameters more than made up for its early challenges.
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High quality, budget grinders were rare at the time. The Niche Zero and other new grinders changed that, and helped make it easier to pull good shots.
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21 May 2024
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
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On self driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
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But while access to more data is certainly helpful, it’s not a magic bullet. One issue is that the data Tesla collects is unlabeled.
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So Tesla hasn’t found a different, better way to bring driverless technology to market. Waymo is just so far ahead that it’s dealing with challenges Tesla hasn’t started thinking about.
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If Waymo vehicles were constantly asking for remote guidance, Waymo might need to hire so many remote operators that it negates the cost savings that come from not needing a driver.
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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
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Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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This terrific novel tells the story of Frankie McGrath, an army nurse who serves two tours on the frontlines in Vietnam before returning home to a country rocked by protest and anti-war sentiment.
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20 May 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
you’ve just been hired to teach Critical Thinking at the local high school what’s going on the curriculum? what activities/assignments do you have planned for the kids? Quoting @justindross Our first class in college they told us local business leaders said the most important skill they wanted to hire for was Critical Thinking ,so our curriculum would focus on that And I remember how we all had no idea what that meant Related
19 May 2024
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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Group chats rule the world
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18 May 2024
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
16 May 2024
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
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The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Life
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15 May 2024
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
14 May 2024
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
13 May 2024
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.
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The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation
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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
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Steven Pinker goes deep, showing how understanding the science of memory, social understanding, and syntactic structure can really pay off in making one a better writer.
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I highly recommend this for graduate students and postdocs, but it’s useful for the rest of us as well.
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But Stephen King has good war stories, and his book really is bullshit-free.
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Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
My @GopherCon 2023 talk, Build "Your Own Distributed System Using Go", has been published to YouTube. #raft #distributedsystems @golang youtube.com
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12 May 2024
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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10 May 2024
Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.
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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
9 May 2024
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
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How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear
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8 May 2024
Biologist at the MIT Media Lab; invented CRISPR gene drives and then spent years arguing for safeguards against their misuse and against engineered pandemics.
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It shouldn't be easy to buy synthetic DNA fragments to recreate the 1918 flu virus
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That makes it essential to ensure that all synthetic DNA orders are screened to determine whether they contain hazardous sequences, which should be shipped only to legitimate researchers whose work has been approved by a biosafety authority.
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Both the genome sequences of pandemic viruses and step-by-step protocols to make infectious samples from synthetic DNA are now freely available online.
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It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to recreate the virus that caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s surprisingly easy, even when ordering gene fragments from companies that check customers’ orders to detect hazardous sequences.
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Our experiment demonstrates that the immense potential benefits of biotechnology are profoundly vulnerable to misuse.
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7 May 2024
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Thanks to the ICLR Award Committee! And thank you for the kind words, Max! You were the perfect Ph.D. advisor and collaborator, kind and inspiring. I really couldn't have wished for better. Quoting @wellingmax Thank you Yisong and the Award Committee for choosing the VAE for the Test of Time award. I like to congratulate Durk who was my first (brilliant) student when moving back to the Netherlands and who is the main architect of the VAE. It was absolutely fantastic working with him. Related
5 May 2024
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
Investment Advice Which Stands the Test of Time There is investment advice in the book of Jewish religious law (the Talmud). It advises that you keep 1/3rd of your wealth in business, 1/3rd in land, and 1/3rd in gold. It's genius. Why? First, it's simple. Second, bus…
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Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
3 May 2024
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
Writer and consultant on technology, organizations and history; founded the blog Ribbonfarm and now writes the Contraptions newsletter.
1 May 2024
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
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30 April 2024
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
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How I Think About Debt
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25 April 2024
President of the French Republic since 2017.
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Speech on Europe, Sorbonne, 25 April 2024 (Elysee English transcript)
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We cannot sustain the most stringent environmental and social norms, invest less than our competitors, have a more naive trade policy than them and think that we will continue to generate jobs. This no longer holds together.
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And so yes, the era when Europe bought its energy and fertilizers from Russia, had its goods manufactured in China, and delegated its security to the United States of America, is over.
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My message today is simple. Paul Valéry said, at the end of the First World War, that we now know that our civilizations are mortal. We must be clear on the fact that our Europe, today, is mortal. It can die. It can die, and that depends entirely on our choices. But these choices must be made now.
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22 April 2024
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
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Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428
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That is absolutely possible. I’m actually putting less credence on that one just because you need to happen every single time. If even one, I mean, this goes back to John von Neumann pointed out that you don’t need to send the aliens around the galaxy. You can build self-reproducing probes and send them around the galaxy.
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But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t. Absolutely the simplest explanation for why we haven’t is that they’re not there.
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Sometimes people think that complexity or life or whatever is fighting against the second law of thermodynamics, fighting against the increase of entropy. That is precisely the wrong way to think about it. We are surfers riding the wave of increasing entropy. We rely on increasing entropy to survive.
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Remember space and time are parts of one unified space-time, the location of the singularity in the black hole is not the middle of space, but our future. It is a moment of time. It is like a big crunch.
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I think that that story about the latter part is completely wrong, almost 180 degrees wrong. I think that Einstein understood quantum mechanics as well as anyone, at least up through the 1930s. I think that his philosophical objections to it are correct. He should actually have been taken much more seriously about that.
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Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.
20 April 2024
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
19 April 2024
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
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Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”
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18 April 2024
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
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How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordable
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Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
17 April 2024
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
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Measuring personal growth
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Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.
15 April 2024
Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.
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Command R+
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I'm excited about what this means for the open-source community and research, with the gap between closed-source and open-weight models closing and SOTA-level conversational models being more easily accessible.
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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG; Lewis et al., 2020), which conditions on the LLM's generation on retrieved documents is the most practical paradigm IMO.
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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
Out of context เรากำลังจะลองฝึกวาดรูป พรุ่งนี้ว่าจะไปหาซื้อดินสอกับสเก๊ตช์บุ๊คอยู่เลย 5555 วงการศิลปินอยู่ยากจริงๆ ส่วนเดฟนี่ใช้ chatgpt, copilot กันเต็มไปหมด จะมีดราม่าก็แค่เหล่า anti github/microsoft English, from Thai Out of context We're going to try practicing drawing. Tomorrow I plan to go buy pencils and a sketchbook lol. The artist world is really tough. As for Dave, he's using ChatGPT and Copilot all the time. The only drama will be from the anti-GitHub/Microsoft crowd.
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14 April 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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13 April 2024
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
12 April 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
Debugging AI With Adversarial Validation For years, I’ve relied on a straightforward method to identify sudden changes in model inputs or training data, known as “drift.” This method, Adversarial Validation1, is both simple and effective. The best part? It req…
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11 April 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
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9 April 2024
Co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management. He wrote The Reformed Broker for over a decade, now publishes the Downtown Josh Brown newsletter, and co-hosts The Compound and Friends.
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8 April 2024
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
7 April 2024
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Gotta love this take from 1937: the problem with our modern world is all of these newfangled toilets and umbrellas Related
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
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6 April 2024
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
5 April 2024
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Cultural psychology, studying emotions through the lens of culture. Your emotions are created by your culture. You should not be too sure that you share the emotional experiences of individuals from other cultures. Culture and emotion make each other up. Great insights!
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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
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EVERYBODY WRITES 2nd Edition now available!
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Join 61,199 others who get insights and inspiration on marketing, writing, and life (plus high-spirited shenanigans).
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4 April 2024
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
(De)compression is conceptually quite straightforward: The decompression algorithm specifies a weird domain-specific VM, and the compressor is simply an automated code golfer for that architecture. Related
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
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It was around this time, in the summer of 2021, that I discovered the Muji pens. I discovered them as every minimalism fetishist discovers them perhaps.
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My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.
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My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.
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The Pentel Energel LRN5 or LR7. You can also use the refills from Papermate Ink Joy and the Tül refills.
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2 April 2024
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
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Timeline of the xz open source attack
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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
1 April 2024
Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
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You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now
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This is not the same
world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden
layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.
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If your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and
foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.
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It means that anything you offer must fit in 1h per month. That is it. And if
it does not, if it needs more involvement than that, we, as maintainers, will
not do it. At all.
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31 March 2024
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
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My daily todo application is Todoist. I use Notion as a work journal to keep track of the progress of every-day tasks.
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I use Alfred to quick access and control apps, manage entries in my clipboard and automate tasks.
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I deploy quite a few sites to Netlify.
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To keep track of ongoing builds, I use my self-written tool, Netlify menubar. Netlify menubar lets you access build status right in your menubar.
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To quickly type emojis, I use Rocket Emoji. It is so good to access emojis promptly.
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29 March 2024
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
Your AI Product Needs Evals Motivation I started working with language models many years ago when I led the team that created CodeSearchNet, a precursor to GitHub CoPilot. Since then, I’ve seen many successful and unsuccessful approaches to buildi…
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26 March 2024
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
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Seth Godin: "Failure is Learning on Your Way to Mastery" and Other Advice for Creativity (The Knowledge Project #105, published 23 February 2021)
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the way to be on the hook is to say, "This is only for people who are like this." Because if those people hate it, then you were wrong. Whereas if you say, "This is for everyone," you're allowed to hide behind, "Well, everyone hasn't found it yet."
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Uh Harry Potter, the most successful uh book franchise in history, it made the author over a billion dollars. That book is for almost no one. Right? That book is for precocious 12-year-olds and people who like to remember what was like to be a precocious 12-year-old. That's not everyone. That's a very small group of people.
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nobody has everyone as their customer. Nobody. Maybe the water company, but that's about it. Our goal cannot be to be for everyone. That we have to be for someone. The smallest viable audience, not the biggest possible audience.
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The internet is a micro medium. It is the best medium ever developed to reach specific people, but it is terrible at reaching everyone. There is no homepage. It is impossible to reach a hundred million people in one day on the internet, which is something TV used to do every night.
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25 March 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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24 March 2024
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
22 March 2024
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
21 March 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
The Serendipity Machine — @nabeelqu's notes on using Twitter https://t.co/59Ii1wh4VR this is so good and more or less exactly what i would say Related
19 March 2024
Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.
18 March 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
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17 March 2024
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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11 March 2024
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Happy to see that our work on diffusion model objectives (https://t.co/0qJRyangWX) is starting to get noticed, with e.g. Stable Diffusion 3 (https://t.co/vHxqwLH0eY) building on our result that the flow matching objective can be simply understood as a special case of diffusion. Related
9 March 2024
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.
8 March 2024
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
6 March 2024
Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.
29 February 2024
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
I’m running a prototype Science House this summer! It’s a great opportunity for anyone looking to do research outside academia. No application, just do some science, post it on the internet, and send me the link. adammastroianni.com
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28 February 2024
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
25 February 2024
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
22 February 2024
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
33 Powerful Books That Might Change Your Life I've read over 1,000 nonfiction books in my life, and these 33 are the most powerful of them all. I can honestly say they changed my life, who's to say they won't change yours too? Don't just take my word for it though.…
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Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.
17 February 2024
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
14 February 2024
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
13 February 2024
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
12 February 2024
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Happy 10th birthday to Slack 🎉 Happy 20th birthday to Flickr 🎉 Time for me to take a little break 😅 Related
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
The most challenging part of writing job ads? Coming up with synonyms for "experience with". Related
9 February 2024
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
Hi Everyone. Here is a detailed explanation of the account takeover hack that happened on this account this week. avc.xyz
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8 February 2024
Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
Hi Everyone. As many of you know, this account was taken over by a hacker on Tuesday and they ran an NFT scam on it. I feel terrible about that and am sorry for anyone who was scammed. Related
6 February 2024
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
5 February 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
4 February 2024
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
3 February 2024
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
How To Afford a House These Days The other day, an MMM reader stopped by and left the following comment on one of my older posts about the principles of FIRE: As with every critique of our ideas, I thought about this comment for a while. Tried to deter…
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2 February 2024
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
1 February 2024
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
27 January 2024
Writer and consultant on technology, organizations and history; founded the blog Ribbonfarm and now writes the Contraptions newsletter.
25 January 2024
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
5 Life-Changing Levels of Not Giving a Fuck Every day, hundreds of millions of people suffer from giving too many fucks. They spend their lives imprisoned by meaningless anxiety and unnecessary concerns. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this article, I'm go…
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23 January 2024
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
2023 letter (This piece is my year in review; here’s my letter from 2022) I. Walking The trunk of an elephant might feel cool to the touch. Not what one expects, perhaps, from 200 pounds of writhing muscle, strong enough to uproot…
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19 January 2024
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
Age of Invention: Unsung Materials One of my big goals for this year, as part of finally finishing my book on the causes of the Industrial Revolution, has been to get a handle on a bunch of industries of the period — ones that experienced dramatic change…
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13 January 2024
Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
ChatGPT can't generate a non-bearded C++ man. A story! OpenAI Related
Pseudonymous reviewer who publishes measured, standardised flashlight and knife reviews at zeroair.org, including runtime, output and tint measurements.
12 January 2024
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
7 January 2024
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
4 January 2024
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
2023 year in review A lot has happened in the last year, so I thought it would be good to write up a review. My biggest change in 2023 was that my wife and I had a baby! This has brought a mixture of joys and frustrations, but overall it h…
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3 January 2024
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
2 January 2024
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
1 January 2024
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
31 December 2023
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
in which an escape route is discovered I was initially something of a skeptic when I first read about the Language Server Protocol. As a huge fan of REPL-based development, I thought it was a step back from the nREPL protocol, which had several years head st…
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30 December 2023
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
26 December 2023
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
American software engineer working across web, mobile and TV platforms; writes at sean.is.
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23 December 2023
Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”
21 December 2023
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finishe…
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20 December 2023
Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
18 December 2023
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
14 December 2023
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
11 December 2023
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
Two positions I believe, both pretty strongly: 1. LLMs -- deep learning in general -- is novel and weird and powerful and important. The world is becoming *much weirder* as a result, and we do not yet know how deep the rabbit hole goes; and 2. LLMs, as of today, are still quite limited and fall short of "human intelligence" in many ways; they are also relatively much better at "appearing intelligent" than "being intelligent," which makes them easy to overestimate LLMs Related
8 December 2023
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of Code I could do purely in compile-time C++ metaprogramming. As of this writing, I’ve done two days, and I’m not sure I’ll…
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Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
5 December 2023
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
1 December 2023
Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.
27 November 2023
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
Briefly relaxing my Twitter embargo to suggest that you read @oliverwkim's JMP, on the economic consequences of the Household Responsibility System in China. It's a clever and counterintuitive example of how creative data work can help us answer important historical questions. Quoting @oliverwkim 🚀JMP alert🚀 My paper w @FergJoel applies machine learning to 1970s-80s satellite imagery to revisit one of the 🇨🇳 Chinese Miracle's first major reforms, the Household Responsibility System—the end of collective socialist agriculture. What we found was quite surprising. 🧵 China Related
23 November 2023
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of mom…
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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
3 Hard Truths You Need to Hear Welcome to the realm of uncomfortable truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question everything you've ever believed in. Buckle up, buttercup. Let's dive into the rabbit hole of reality. https://youtu.be/ueDus1n3t…
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19 November 2023
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
17 November 2023
Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”
8 November 2023
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
What's with ML software and pickles? I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but with some curiosity and occasional peripheral interactions with it. During this time, a recurring theme for me was horror…
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2 November 2023
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
The Arizona Experiment! The thing that drew me to early retirement is freedom, and that’s still the best part of it. Back in 2005, the primary reason for this freedom-seeking was being able to devote my best hours to being a Dad – I had a feel…
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1 November 2023
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
31 October 2023
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
30 October 2023
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
25 October 2023
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
19 October 2023
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
18 October 2023
Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
Thought all day yesterday of a /simple/ way to pass arguments to ctors in any order. ChatGPT would suggest hecatombs of convoluted code! I assume many of y'all know about this single-function solution but just in case: godbolt.org
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17 October 2023
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto Technology is a tool that enhances the power of the wielder. Our tools are getting more and more powerful. Some tools, such as nuclear fission, are so powerful that they pose an existential threat to all of humanity, be…
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Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
12 October 2023
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29 September 2023
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
21 September 2023
Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.
18 September 2023
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
13 September 2023
Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.
1 September 2023
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
30 August 2023
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
23 August 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
19 August 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
17 August 2023
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
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15 August 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
OH: "Nobody ever got fired for quoting the DORA report." Related
11 August 2023
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
The Myth of the Individual An extract from Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terry Real For centuries, Western culture has been dominated by the idea of the individual. And what could make more sense? I exist. I,…
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7 August 2023
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
New blog post! This one, on (software) systems operating at or beyond their capacity, what goes wrong, and how to degrade gracefully. blog.nelhage.com
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4 August 2023
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Representing Heterogeneous Data As I mentioned in the last post, I’m working on taking my little videogame scripting language and turning it into a statically typed one. As much as possible, I’m trying to make the language simple and famil…
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2 August 2023
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
28 July 2023
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
The Next Larger Context “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan” — Eliel Saarinen Frequently we will be given problems…
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18 July 2023
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
14 July 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
The Cloud Is Not Optional When you hear that one of the vendors responsible for keeping government organizations safe had a security breach, you can easily decide that this is unacceptable. When you hear that it is hard to know who is affected a…
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13 July 2023
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
4 July 2023
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
3 July 2023
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
20 June 2023
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
14 June 2023
Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.
10 June 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.
7 June 2023
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
The illusion of moral decline Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining1,2. In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world…
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6 June 2023
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
Remove Constraints To Get Results We look at the world and make decisions for our actions through models. Depending on the context, some models will be more fruitful to apply than others. There is a model that I have found tremendously helpful, in parti…
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1 June 2023
Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.
27 May 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
23 May 2023
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
9 May 2023
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
8 May 2023
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
4 May 2023
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
1 May 2023
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
23 April 2023
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
12 April 2023
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
Man, America picked the worst outlet shapes. 80% of my power bricks wiggle out of the wall if someone sneezes nearby. Those beefy UK ones would never. America Related
10 April 2023
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
I think the thing that shocks/scares me the most isn’t that there’s white supremacists amongst my peers, it’s that they’ve become so comfortable with it that they’re ok suggesting lynching in a public forum, for the world to see. This is the worst fucking timeline. Quoting @polotek Holy shit. I used to work with this woman. I'll repeat that. I used to work in the same office with this white woman who is thinking "I wish we could go back to vigilante groups that could just go around hanging people." Related
14 March 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
And, opinions can *be* data. Quoting @sketchplanator Data avoids arguments. It's why I love this quote from W. Edwards Deming: "Without data you're just another person with an opinion." Or as Jim Barksdale, former Netscape CEO, said: "If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine." Related
9 March 2023
Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.
Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
7 March 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
4 March 2023
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
26 February 2023
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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17 February 2023
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
12 February 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
11 February 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
Organizations don’t learn, people do. Related
5 February 2023
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
She’s a 10 but she obsessively edits the description of a private Spotify playlist nobody will ever see. Related
1 February 2023
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
18 January 2023
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
Join me and thousands of school leaders on the 3rd and 4th of March at the School Leaders Bootcamp to unleash your leadership potential! Register here - bit.ly
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17 January 2023
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
What is Heisenberg uncertainty, anyway? Like relativity, uncertainty is a deeply beautiful topic that is widely misunderstood. Many people are familiar with the idea that you cannot simultaneously know, for example, a particle’s position and momentum to perfe…
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Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
14 January 2023
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
The Next button With the enormous advances in machine learning over the last few years, it feels like we are now not only on the cusp of big things, but that the world is already a genuinely different place than it was just a little wh…
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12 January 2023
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
My overarching principle for building better systems: accept the limitations of our human brains and work to accommodate their limited but specialized capacity. That's it! Hexagonal architecture, microservices, SOLID, automated testing – it all follows from that one principle. Related
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
I paid zero attention to tweets about the FAA NOTAM outage today. Speculation from a distance and hindsight-driven attempts at being insightful in these situations are never worth the cost on attention. Related
Seems like another time for a reminder Quoting @allspaw It’s a helluva drug. Related
4 January 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
3 January 2023
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Type Checking If Expressions I have this hobby project I’ve been hacking on for several years. It’s a fantasy console, very much inspired by the delightful PICO-8. Like PICO-8, my console has its own built-in scripting language. Because…
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1 January 2023
Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.
Why Not Mars For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman Entrance to underground cavern on Pavonis Mons. HiRISE, 2011 The goal of this essay is to p…
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31 December 2022
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out…
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18 December 2022
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
17 December 2022
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
6 December 2022
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sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
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else holds it.
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Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
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quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
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