| Horatius’ Last Stand |
Is there a better way to go? |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
no limits eh? |
| Machines of Loving Grace |
“A country of geniuses in a datacenter” |
| Situational Awareness |
Things are gonna get interesting with the next few OOMs… |
| The Logintaka |
a dialogue between a Guru and a Newbie |
| How To Become A Hacker |
Sounds like a good group of folks |
| The Bitter Lesson |
Make search and learning limited by compute, then increase compute. |
| Self-Verification, The Key to AI |
Experience is bitterest, but it is the best way to learn |
| Poetry and Ambition |
McPoems? shit |
| Hanuman Chalisa |
Jai Shri Hanuman! |
| The Anabasis of Alexander |
That’s a pretty good reply, given the context |
| Mozart, Writing Symphonies and Young Lawyers with Questions |
The master is just the student which is furthest along! |
| Occam’s Razor |
simpler! |
| Gunga Din |
You’re a better man than I… |
| I love my wife. My wife is dead. |
You will probably want a drink for this “fine-man”’s letter. |
| Be Drunk |
Wine, Poetry or Virtue? |
| A Mathematician’s Apology |
A peek into the mind of a mathematician |
| Electric Meat |
Grab a few things! |
| On Bullshit |
Its despicable! |
| A Message to Garcia |
Are you capable of carrying the letter? |
| You and Your Research |
There IS difference between “Good” and “Great” |
| The Goddess of Everything Else |
Wouldn’t it be based if we did some of that? |
| Kindness to Kin |
Reject fitness score, embrace cripplemind |
| 500 Million, Not a Single One More |
get vaxxed! |
| A Big Little Idea called Legibility |
An Authoritarian High-Modernist Recipe for Failure |
| The Glass is already Broken |
Enjoy it! |
| The Laws of Trading – Review |
You’re always trading! |
| Good Research and Good Papers |
What constitutes a good paper? |
| The Techno-Optimist Manifesto |
ai ~= alchemy, we ought work with it to build Nuclear Fusion. |
| Research Debt |
Debt exists everywhere. |
| How to Do Research (MIT AI Lab) |
A fantastic collection of timeless, ad-hoc research advices |
| The Maintenance Race |
Skilled maintainers advise never trying to solve a new or complex problem without a thorough mulling first. |
| Jibun Kaigi |
A titular meeting of the selves! |
| Tips for Writing Technical Papers |
by Jennifer Widom? it should be Wisdom! |
| Notes from The Pragmatic Scientist |
Useful items to keep in mind |
| The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming |
It is always good to refer back to this, especially when wheels have been spun. |
| Principles of Effective Research |
Hamming’s essay provides the raison d’etere, this provides the practical |
| The OPT-175B Logbook |
What a fun time! |
| The Art of Science and Engineering |
This really ought to be required reading for anyone looking to do something useful in Science and/or Engineering, If nothing else read Chapters 18-through-20 on Simulations, quite a useful perspective for the way things seem to be going. |
| Vox Populi |
“In these democratic days…” |
| How Complex Systems Fail |
They tend to fail in non-trivial & intertwined manners |
| Markdown Syntax |
A take on markdown from the creator himself, John Guber |
| Conscious intention to redirect attention |
FOCUS |
| A Recipe for Training Neural Networks - Karpathy |
Timeless! |
| A DL Tuning Playbook |
So simple, so sane. |
| EleutherAI’s cookbook |
Worth gander mate! |
| The Art of Debugging |
Art is correct-a-mundo |
| Art in the Sciences of The Artificial |
“Sometimes algorithms can be odes to certain aspects of nature rather than faithful reproductions of them. And so it goes with art.” |
| Debugging Backwards in Time |
“If you’ve got a snake’s tail and you pull on it long enough, you will get to its head.” |
| Magic Ink |
“An artist who paints with magic ink.” |
| How to Write a Git Commit Message |
If for no one, do it for your future self! |
| A Note About Git Commit Messages |
For your future self, for the love of God. |
| Epigrams on Programming |
If you program, you are in good company. |
| Raw Performance Ranking of GPUs |
GPUs really do go BRRRRRR |
| Slow Science |
Take the time to do the thing right, le journey is le reward. |
| File over app |
A compelling case to use obsidian |
| Inside Cuba’s D.I.Y. Internet Revolution |
No es fácil. |
| The Hardware Lottery |
What you will discover is determined in part by the legos you have to build with. |
| Write Like A Programmer |
Writing is coding in a natural language |
| Tadao Ando |
Don’t you just love concrete? |
| The Origin of the Research University |
“18th century German bureaucrats didn’t invent the idea of making new contributions to human knowledge. Their great contribution was to institutionalize it…” |
| On the Design of Text Editors |
Why can’t all software be as functional and ELEGANT as this? |
| Welcome to the Era of Experience |
In some sense, the difference between simulation and experience is the program from which you get your observations and rewards – a process on a computer, or a process on reality. |
| The future of AI is open-ended |
This is where things appear to be heading, or at least, ought to be. |
| 10 Bulls |
Have a read |
| Master Foo and the Recruiter |
Its a new floor, very complex! |
| Amateurs and Professionals |
Where do you get your reward, from percieving the form or from executing the function? |
| You Already Understand! |
“I hit you! Ha ha ha ha!” |
| In Praise of Shadows - Tanizaki |
It is no coincidence that darkness and “日本” go hand in hand, it is a well-thought out relationship. |
| All AI Models Might Be The Same - Morris |
If all of these models are modeling reality, and there is only one reality, are we then just training “one true model”? |
| Equinox: neural networks in JAX via callable PyTrees and filtered transformations |
It seems that wonderful things tend to come from thinking thoroughly about something and then sketching it out. |
| Tensor Logic: The Language of AI |
Ya know, everything exists on some N-dimensional tensor… |
