This year I decided to get into DIY, driving, and dad lit.

This year I at last quit nomading (8 months in one place for the first time since Covid).


Breakthroughs

Work

  • Bengio
  • https://openreview.net/pdf?id=f15MLGSjEs
  • Juriscription
  • Cheatsheet

Books

Worst book:


Papers

ML papers

Essays and sites

https://julianmichael.org/blog/2026/01/06/double-check-responses.html https://www.yudhister.me/am-i-an-llm/ https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/why-arent-men-the-pretty-ones https://dispatch-media.com/will-self-how-to-talk-to-an-uber-driver/ https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/2/20/mathematics-in-the-library-of-babel https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/psychology-research-is-mostly-fine https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/macgregor-the-bridge-builder https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/king-ludd



Tweets and poems and shorts


Art and vids


Films / TV


Podcasts


Games


Albums


Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZnf1VETvWw

deaths

Tony Hoare Joe Halpern Irene Leech Robert Trivers Heisuke Hironaka Tony Leggett J Michael Bishop Chris Sims Stephen Owen Tracy Kidder Chip Taylor Alain Brillet Jürgen Habermas Susan Haack Gary Walker Louis Brus Kazuhito Yamashita Alan Musgrave Arthur Dempster Ian Watson