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Performance critical contributions by humans will stay what they are: an edge case. In 99% of software it does not matter that you could’ve written a faster algorithm or picked a better data structure.
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the jev release is giving react major version drop vibes. just a massive crashing wave, everyone rethinking fundamental stuff and thinking through the implications of a novel new primitive.
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The market cap weights make sense relative to the fundamentals.
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Investing in strong fundamentals and invisible supports makes good outcomes follow naturallyTheir words
Invest in building strong fundamentals, invisible supports, and outcomes flow like water.
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there is evidence that the reversal effect has weakened over time, leaving investors who bet on mean reversion and a return to fundamentals in the lurch
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ActivityPubTheir words
Evan Prodromou has the unenviable task of making the whole ecosystem easy to understand. Thankfully he does that well. Things are logically laid out, there are comprehensive descriptions of even the most obscure parts of the spec, and it builds up nicely from the fundamentals.
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So we conjectured that the lack of data was a huge part of the reason that's the lack of progress in AI. So we took a departure from everybody else who are really focusing only on algorithm and said that we need data. we need data to drive these algorithms.
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we realized early on uh that it's not about building a great chip, it's about accelerating an algorithm domain.
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From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think context engineering has been so long lived because it's it's grounded in the fundamentals of how transformer attention works and until we have post transformer models or linear attention or whatever it is which who knows when that's going to happen context engineering will be interesting and important to anyone building on AI
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We can we can teach we can teach somebody, I think, to be a really good AI developer in a few months. You can build enough intuition where you are, you know, accelerated off the ground and you can go like keep growing there. It's really hard to teach someone a CS undergrad program in in 3 months.
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It knows I like surfing and it's like it doesn't. It just has this big ass number that happens to correlate with surfing.
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And then I was like, okay, can you come up with an algorithm that is better than the algorithms that I came up with or that anybody else came up with and go ahead and like look at all the published work and synthesize that and then try to come up with something novel and it it's not able to do it. And I can give it a lot of time and it's it's still not able to do it.
24 June
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I'm not going to spend four interviews going through and asking somebody data structures and algorithm stuff. I just have them do work that might be similar to something I'd give them on the job or even just have a conversation with them. See how they think. Like can they think through trade-offs? I don't even care about what answer they give me to a problem. I care about like what's like why did they say that?
18 June
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Doomsday stories about how passive investing is making markets less efficient and less inclined to reflect fundamentals strike me as overwrought
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So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.
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From one piece Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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TPUs like anything else is impacted by Moore's law. And we know that Moore's law is increasing about 25% per year. And so the only way to really get 10x leaps, 100x leaps, is to fundamentally change the algorithm and how it's computed every single year.
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We have got to acknowledge that most of the advanc advances in AI came out of algorithm advances not just the raw hardware. Now if most advances came from algorithms and computer science and programming tell me that their army of AI researchers is not their fundamental advantage.
13 February
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it's it's kind of purely a practical and empirical thing that we've observed that by teaching the model principles, getting it to learn from principles, its behavior is more consistent, it's easier to cover edge cases, and the model is more likely to do what people want it to do.
12 February
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But then you actually sit down and do the maths, and then for most people if you just skip one burger per month, that compensates the, the CO2 output, or, like, the water use in equivalent of tokens.
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The Eastern FrontTheir words
Nick Lloyd’s The Eastern Front covers the clashes between Imperial Germany and the Russian Empire as well as the Austro-Hungarians against the Italians and the Serbs. Whereas the western front was essentially static throughout the whole war, the east was characterized by the sort of maneuver warfare that most generals had expected to fight.
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In short, investors' view of the decade to come is being shaped by the events of the last few days.
11 October 2025
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So AI consumes approximately 0.04% of America’s freshwater if you include onsite and offsite use, and only 0.008% if you include just the water in data centers.
26 September 2025
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Well, there's nothing in them which will cause it to generalize. Well, the gradient descent will cause them to find a solution to the problems they've seen. And if there's only one way to solve them, you know, they they'll do it. But there are many ways to solve it. Some which generalize well, some which generalize poorly. There's nothing in them in the algorithms that will cause them to generalize well.
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31 July 2025
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I nonetheless found this book somewhat disappointing, because Jay seemed content to expound the authors he covers in more or less their own terms, rather than subjecting them to anything like actual epistemological or methodological criticism.
4 July 2025
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Using a neural network is likely to become easier than designing a custom-tuned prediction algorithm for many tasks.Their words
in 2025 it might end up being easier to just throw a neural net at the problem, instead of a custom-designed-and-tuned prediction algorithm!
7 June 2025
From one piece A knockout blow for LLMs? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms.
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And good luck getting to “alignment” or “safety” without reliabilty.
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which is number one, you can measure product market fit. Number two, you can optimize product market fit. Number three, you can systematically even numerically increase product market fit. And number four, you can even have an algorithm write your road map for you.
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An algorithm can give it, but algorithm can also take it away at any point and you have no control because you don't own those channels.
16 December 2024
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The Engineering Executive's PrimerTheir words
"It’s honest in how it covers topics like navigating tricky power dynamics with CEOs, surviving 'peer panic,' dealing with competition within leadership teams, and in its overall breadth and depth."
6 November 2024
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A History of Graphic DesignTheir words
History is the best distinguisher of fashion from fundamentals.
24 September 2024
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Since then, these unconventional monetary policies have increasingly become the dominant force moving asset prices.
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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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Vector embeddings will not solve search: a decades-old term-frequency algorithm still beats most of them at ranking.Their words
There is an algorithm called BM25 precisely for this, which is a more sophisticated version of TF-IDF. TF-IDF is term frequency times inverse document frequency, a very old-school information retrieval system that just works actually really well even today. And BM25 is a more sophisticated version of that, that is still beating most embeddings on ranking.
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Anything that might persuade you to leave the platform—a news story, or any outside link—is brutally punished by their algorithms.
26 December 2023
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The OutlawsTheir words
The Outlaws by Javier Cercas - This book, translated from Spanish, covers the years of Spain after the Franco dictatorship but only obliquely hints at them.
4 May 2023
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The gap between what media covers and what actually matters, like real causes of death, is very large.Their words
The gap between reality and media is very large: The gap between cause of death and what people search for and read.
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28 March 2023
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These are important principles, but they ignore the problems of sustainability, inequity, and bias. In addition, the emphasis is usually on the immediate issues, not the long-term impact. In other words, they describe the way we did things in the past, not the issues in this book, and not the way we need to do things in the future.
1 June 2022
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Sovereign debt markets (and many other markets as well) are subject to sudden stops in which investors either drop out or ask for large spreads even in the absence of large changes in fundamentals.
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How to Become a RainmakerTheir words
If you like simple books like "ReWork", this is the sales book for you. Fox has a simple, direct way of sharing advice on how he sees the best sales people operate. Nothing here is Earth-shattering, but if you zoom out, you realize that the little details, the simple things are what trip a lot of people up in sales (myself included). If you want to tighten up your sales game, or just get some fundamentals right, this is a good, quick read.
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PayPal WarsTheir words
Paypal survived the dot com crash to become a massively successful company. They also led to the Paypal Mafia, the most famous group of people formerly of the same company that went on to do other successful things. I wanted to know the story of the company and this book covers the good, the bad and the ugly of their journey to success.
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Obviously AwesomeTheir words
Simple, practical, useful. This book is a quick read that covers modern positioning and how to do it. Unlike all the theoretical books out there, this is a VC who lived a life as a marketer (all the way up to CMO/VP) doing this and then worked with more entrepreneurs. This hands on experience leads to a system that is easy to understand and apply. I'm now trying to apply it so this score will rise or fall based on the results we have.
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The 22 Immutable Laws of MarketingTheir words
My favorite kinds of books are to the point and filled with solid, actionable advice. It's amazing how much wisdom Ries & Trout have fit into a 130 page book. If you want to learn key marketing fundamentals, and avoid major marketing strategy failures, this book is well worth the read.
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Mastering the VC GameTheir words
The interests of a Venture Capitalist are different than those of the entrepreneurs building a company they've invested in. Jeff does an awesome job of helping explain how you can get misaligned in your goals versus your investors. Fortunately, he also covers how to avoid it.
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Looking Glass UniverseTheir words
She covers ideas from physics and math explained simply and unusually honestly.
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Primes of the Form x^2 + n y^2Their words
This might seem like a bizarrely specific question to write a whole book about, but that's actually the charm. It covers deep and general ideas, such as class field theory and elliptic functions, which are usually only taught to graduate students, but Cox approaches it all from an extremely concrete question which Fermat thought about.
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Standup MathsTheir words
This channel is more whimsical and comedic, but that's not to say there isn't a lot of serious math it covers.
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MathologerTheir words
Half of the appeal here comes from the delightful bits of math this channel covers, often with novel ways of presenting otherwise extremely complicated topics to make them easier.
8 April 2019
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Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That FailedTheir words
This book covers the mission and the details of the recovery efforts and the incredible work by Mission Control and by the astronauts to get the crew home safely after a catastrophic failure no one had even begun to plan for.
9 August 2018
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The Algorithm Design ManualTheir words
To me, this book is an illustration of the power of names. Today, in the era of Google, if you know the name of something, you can find out about it with a simple search. But if you don't know of what you're looking for, it suddenly becomes much harder to find it. Having in the back of your head the names of common algorithms that help you solve problems is really powerful.
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The Mark and the VoidTheir words
The Mark and the Void is my favorite of the three novels but this review will be the shortest because it would superfluous. This review by Slate magazine is excellent, covers all the bases, and it's what has gotten me to read the book to begin with. I'll just focus on the magic.
1 October 2016
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Operating System ConceptsTheir words
It covers concepts at a high level and hits the major points, but it's lacking in technical depth, details on how things work, advanced topics, and clear exposition.
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AlgorithmsTheir words
Everything about this book seems perfect to me. It breaks up algorithms into classes (e.g., divide and conquer or greedy), and teaches you how to recognize what kind of algorithm should be used to solve a particular problem.
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Algorithm DesignTheir words
Same comments as for CLRS -- it's widely recommended as an introductory book even though it doesn't make sense as an introductory book.
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ComputationTheir words
Covers a few theory of computation highlights. The explanations are delightful and I've watched some of the videos more than once just to watch Bernhardt explain things.
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Stochastic optimization can be done well using only adaptive estimates of the gradient's lower-order moments.Their words
We introduce Adam, an algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions, based on adaptive estimates of lower-order moments.
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Stochastic optimization can be done well using only adaptive estimates of the gradient's lower-order moments.Their words
We introduce Adam, an algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions, based on adaptive estimates of lower-order moments.
27 June 2013
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My rule of thumb in this profession: “If the New York Times covers a research paper, the next year we will learn that it’s wrong”.
2 June 2013
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Heidegger: An IntroductionTheir words
Richard's Polt's Heidegger: An Introduction is one of the best I've come across. It's a fantastically clear and concise exploration of Heidegger's philosophy, concentrating on his first great work, Being and Time, though he also covers the later writings of Heidegger.
24 January 2013
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Lectures on Quantum MechanicsTheir words
It covers concisely and well most of the standard topics that are make up a quantum mechanics course at this level
25 September 2011
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Dicing with DeathTheir words
This book is somewhat similar to The Drunkard's Walk in that it covers the history of probability. But since Stephen's background is in medical statistics, he looks at clinical trials and other medical studies.
15 February 2011
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iPadTheir words
I have an iPad as well which I've found very useful for reading book manuscripts (which I must do when designing book covers) but don't use it as much as I thought I would for other things.
15 April 2010
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Mastering Regular ExpressionsTheir words
This is a great book for exactly, precisely the reason that all O'Reilly books are great: it covers complex material in a way that's accessible to uncomplex people.
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and ToolsTheir words
and it's by far the hardest book in the list so far, even more so than The Algorithm Design Manual, in no small part because it's extremely dense.
6 August 2009
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