This year I decided to get into haute cinema. I actually got into gelato and leadership.

This year I quit hating my PhD.


Work


Breakthroughs

https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/12-everything-great-you-missed-since-november https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/16-a-fraction-of-great-things-you https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/18-a-slice-of-great-things-you-missed


Papers

  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06510-w
  • https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10329
  • The corporate thirst for training data has some lovely side effects
  • I was extremely impressed by this piece on Badiou. It actually explains contemporary continental philosophy in a way I can understand: a rearguard against science or scientism.
  • https://philpapers.org/archive/BRINMP
  • http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/21647/
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15154
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16300
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314
  • https://karthikecon.github.io/karthiksrinivasan.org/paying_attention.pdf
  • https://browse.arxiv.org/pdf/2310.02304.pdf
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12921
  • Design for the first quantum bus
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221148147
  • https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/10/819/2911822/All-objects-and-some-questions
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300926120
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-019-01261-9
  • https://t.co/vuxhReBKcc
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/risa.14204?campaign=wolearlyview
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
  • https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4546267
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09045
  • https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-022-06080-6
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10312
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16779
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01404
  • https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WxqyXbyQiEjiAsoJr/the-seeker-s-game-vignettes-from-the-bay#comments
  • https://www.wdeneys.org/data/Smart%20intuitor%20postprint.pdf
  • Vision LMs are as insecure as text LMs or more
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06979
  • Inverse vaccines (in mice)
  • GradIEEEnt half decent
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40141-z
  • https://osf.io/d8c4g/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9879926/
  • https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/52/8/afad159/7256139?login=true
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12136-023-00566-z
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02390
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04607
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00614
  • https://sites.google.com/view/medusa-llm
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15605
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245918771329
  • https://twitter.com/UKPLab/status/1699348822609060158


Books

Worst book:


Shorts & poems

  • https://skunkledger.substack.com/p/redemption
  • newsletter bits
  • mihaly bits


Essays and sites

  • Read this now
  • I cannot stop thinking about this.. Why are the most powerful entities in the world so boring?
  • https://solquy.substack.com/p/12623-doing-chaotic-good-better
  • https://reason.com/2023/01/14/a-modern-history-of-groomer-politics/
  • https://kaarelh.github.io/alpha.html
  • https://dynomight.net/gpt-2/
  • https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/future-people/#appendix-on-sharing-breath-with-historical-figures
  • https://muireall.space/repugnant/
  • https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/reading-list
  • https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/carl-shulman-2#details
  • https://www.overcomingbias.com/2023/02/why-is-everyone-so-boring.html
  • https://fantasticanachronism.com/2023/02/06/on-the-pleb-filter/
  • https://www.wired.com/story/new-drug-switched-off-appetite-mounjaro/
  • https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/2440/what-language-design-features-made-lisp-useful-for-artificial-intelligence-resea
  • https://bestjelly.substack.com/p/invasive-questions-and-dealing-with
  • https://www.understandingai.org/p/large-language-models-explained-with
  • https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/bronze-age-pervert-dissertation-leo-strauss
  • https://theviolethour.substack.com/p/therapy-for-edgelords
  • https://vgel.me/misc/tools-not-needed-draft
  • https://critinq.wordpress.com/2023/09/19/how-we-know-what-we-know/
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-on-the-marble-cliffs
  • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk
  • https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JYEAL8g7ArqGoTaX6/ai-pause-will-likely-backfire
  • https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BWLAzZEA5K7HPr2CL/probabilities-prioritization-and-bayesian-mindset#3__Mechanisms__Metaculus__and_World_Models
  • Probably the greatest extant blogroll in the post-blog age
  • https://intellectualmathematics.com/blog/review-of-netzs-new-history-of-greek-mathematics/
  • https://vgel.me/posts/handmade-transformer/
  • https://centrally-unplanned.tumblr.com/post/714240712354529280/in-search-of-romance-try-moving-abroad
  • https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/contra-marc-andreessen-on-ai
  • https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BWLAzZEA5K7HPr2CL/probabilities-prioritization-and-bayesian-mindset#comments
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-kriss-on-nerds-and-hipsters?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=89120&post_id=115233868&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email
  • https://bartleby.life/dfw.html
  • https://yiqinfu.github.io/posts/ever-changing-theories-china-ai/
  • https://sjdm.org/dmidi/index.html
  • https://letterboxd.com/kukukadoo/films/reviews/
  • https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/money-laundering-and-aml-compliance/
  • https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/clean-air/
  • https://tsutsifrutsi.tumblr.com/post/139992202409/thoughts-on-the-stem-class
  • https://longitudinal.blog/2023/01/10/general-automation-and-science/
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/galton-ehrlich-buck?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=89120&post_id=98798276&isFreemail=false&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyODY4OTQxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo5ODc5ODI3NiwiaWF0IjoxNjg0MTg3ODIxLCJleHAiOjE2ODY3Nzk4MjEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.qzy1gJO6i9spVmx-LSJLZgmAnpNk8JWzDgHSMTPBF-g&utm_medium=email
  • https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/peter-singer/
  • https://gothhabiba.tumblr.com/post/714970487195860992/people-are-now-watching-the-screen-even-more
  • https://moultano.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/the-many-ways-that-digital-minds-can-know/
  • https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/106/literal-banana-how-meanings-get-words-and-social-sciences-get-broken?time=8m2s
  • https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/left-covid-and-roads-not-taken
  • https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lg4voqq4vTXiCJNQP/jan-kulveit-s-corrigibility-thoughts-distilled
  • https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail/


Vids

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQzD0ZYtJbI
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnISpahN2dM
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxo-loXdcH0
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG3XDu8aAf8
  • https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2023/03/07/rick-beato-interviews-keith-jarrett


Tweets

  • https://twitter.com/spilendalaust/status/1620790630283894785
  • https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1627381257968537602
  • https://twitter.com/chipmonkmonk/status/1652691438101057539
  • Hinton
  • https://twitter.com/conradgodfrey/status/1712564282167300226?t=5vLJQB4JHqkLrMzCyMz8lw&s=19
  • https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1654137072712658946
  • https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1654171832994365475
  • https://twitter.com/touchmoonflower/status/1711082642937127002
  • https://twitter.com/hojucitas/status/1702244923263611360
  • https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1659934818912616449
  • https://twitter.com/sherjilozair/status/1658601758560595968
  • https://twitter.com/AgnesCallard/status/1700554276886696280
  • https://twitter.com/spaceweather9/status/1674953284023402497
  • https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1649130639814443008/
  • https://twitter.com/SamuelSWatson/status/1690501323932807168
  • https://twitter.com/CapenerSean/status/1692280999755870528
  • https://twitter.com/tobyordoxford/status/1681257760531398657


Art

  • Unknown artist (1989), four colour PC Engine still.
  • What AI thinks of what the internet thinks. https://www.leap-labs.com/product
  • compare change from 2017, the dayglo sharpness
  • https://www.worldnaturephotographyawards.com/winners-2022
  • https://twitter.com/JAHeale/status/1698788497199407473/photo/1
  • https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1701055664603426970
  • https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/arts-2
  • Shout-out to Marnie Stern’s new album cover


Films / TV


Podcasts

  • https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oLCZRf6RhLFCIKWCtG5Nv


Games

  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Disco Elysium again
  • Patrick’s Parabox
  • Against the Storm


Albums

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWvkQqukPLg
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXH2gSX4BYE
  • Roeland Hendrikx - The clarinet as prima donna
  • Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
  • James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities
  • https://thirdkindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-alice
  • Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem for Jazz
  • Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti - Music For A Cosmic Garden
  • Trees Speak - Mind Maze
  • Nicole Lachartre - Mundus
  • https://opussciencecollective.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-time (2020)


Songs

  • I think this might be the best song of the last 10 years.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsE7H6YPfco
  • dodie
  • https://open.spotify.com/track/7wt4KWXhzgykix1HSKzsh3?si=2df2f36cf5cd4511
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJks1kvQjc
  • https://open.spotify.com/track/4YRvb9B8cgvhst11qk8CKn?si=b726553b675349ec
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilowY2p3cmM
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Mx42zOet4
  • https://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?p=19619
  • Gelb Patricia Taxxon
  • https://aidanjohnmoffat.bandcamp.com/album/calm-the-beans


Deals