Brilliant pieces, all worth perusing

TitleThought
Horatius' Last StandIs there a better way to go?
Jonathan Livingston Seagullno limits eh?
Machines of Loving Grace"A country of geniuses in a datacenter"
Situational AwarenessThings are gonna get interesting with the next few OOMs…
The Logintakaa dialogue between a Guru and a Newbie
How To Become A HackerSounds like a good group of folks
The Bitter LessonMake search and learning limited by compute, then increase compute.
Self-Verification, The Key to AIExperience is bitterest, but it is the best way to learn
Poetry and AmbitionMcPoems? shit
Hanuman ChalisaJai Shri Hanuman!
The Anabasis of AlexanderThat's a pretty good reply, given the context
Mozart, Writing Symphonies and Young Lawyers with QuestionsThe master is just the student which is furthest along!
Occam's Razorsimpler!
Gunga DinYou'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 DrunkWine, Poetry or Virtue?
A Mathematician's ApologyA peek into the mind of a mathematician
Electric MeatGrab a few things!
On BullshitIts despicable!
A Message to GarciaAre you capable of carrying the letter?
You and Your ResearchThere IS difference between "Good" and "Great"
The Goddess of Everything ElseWouldn't it be based if we did some of that?
Kindness to KinReject fitness score, embrace cripplemind
500 Million, Not a Single One Moreget vaxxed!
A Big Little Idea called LegibilityAn Authoritarian High-Modernist Recipe for Failure
The Glass is already BrokenEnjoy it!
The Laws of Trading – ReviewYou're always trading!
Good Research and Good PapersWhat constitutes a good paper?
The Techno-Optimist Manifestoai ~= alchemy, we ought work with it to build Nuclear Fusion.
Research DebtDebt exists everywhere.
How to Do Research (MIT AI Lab)A fantastic collection of timeless, ad-hoc research advices
The Maintenance RaceSkilled maintainers advise never trying to solve a new or complex problem without a thorough mulling first.
Jibun KaigiA titular meeting of the selves!
Tips for Writing Technical Papersby Jennifer Widom? it should be Wisdom!
Notes from The Pragmatic ScientistUseful items to keep in mind
The Ten Commandments of Egoless ProgrammingIt is always good to refer back to this, especially when wheels have been spun.
Principles of Effective ResearchHamming's essay provides the raison d'etere, this provides the practical
The OPT-175B LogbookWhat a fun time!
The Art of Science and EngineeringThis 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 FailThey tend to fail in non-trivial & intertwined manners
Markdown SyntaxA take on markdown from the creator himself, John Guber
Conscious intention to redirect attentionFOCUS
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks - KarpathyTimeless!
A DL Tuning PlaybookSo simple, so sane.
EleutherAI's cookbookWorth gander mate!
The Art of DebuggingArt 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 MessageIf for no one, do it for your future self!
A Note About Git Commit MessagesFor your future self, for the love of God.
Epigrams on ProgrammingIf you program, you are in good company.
Raw Performance Ranking of GPUsGPUs really do go BRRRRRR
Slow ScienceTake the time to do the thing right, le journey is le reward.
File over appA compelling case to use obsidian
Inside Cuba's D.I.Y. Internet RevolutionNo es fácil.
The Hardware LotteryWhat you will discover is determined in part by the legos you have to build with.
Write Like A ProgrammerWriting is coding in a natural language
Tadao AndoDon'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 EditorsWhy can't all software be as functional and ELEGANT as this?
Welcome to the Era of ExperienceIn 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-endedThis is where things appear to be heading, or at least, ought to be.
10 BullsHave a read
Master Foo and the RecruiterIts a new floor, very complex!
Amateurs and ProfessionalsWhere 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 - TanizakiIt 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 - MorrisIf 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 transformationsIt seems that wonderful things tend to come from thinking thoroughly about something and then sketching it out.
Tensor Logic: The Language of AIYa know, everything exists on some N-dimensional tensor…
Lánczos interpolation explainedNow this is a good example of explaining something
Stringly-typed: it's not that simple!"type-safety theatre"
The Adolescense of Technology"Here we go!" mario voice
店舗オーナーを経たからこそ、できることThe Latte Tokyo closed (sad), these are the owner's "思い"
ml-engineering by stas00A based chap's repo with nice ml learnings + utils (nccl interconnect tests of the highest quality)
Why AGI Will Not Happen by Tim DettmersSo the science fiction is reality thing, as of world state in Dec 2025, maybe not
The Harness is the Backend - iiiThat is one clean abstraction, open source as well…
Twelve Virtues of RationalityIts a nice read, accompany a coffee
Why Japanese companies do so many different things"Most importantly, Toto has a very lucrative sideline in the fabrication of memory chips." – Japan is the best