This month's book was Woodworking by Emily St. James, of which I need to finish writing my long emotional post about. I had reached out to a book club m... Read more ›
“I am an observer of how intellectual ideas travel and enter into everyday life, or how they come to be performed by families in ways that give those ideas a reality of their own.” The post appeared first on . Read more ›
Spacex Starship 40 rolled out to Massey’s on June 23–24. It successfully completed an engine igniter test on June 24. Today, SpaceX has been doing multiple propellant loading cycles as part of the static fire campaign. There was an earlier attempt (or series of attempts) today that ended with detanking. Observers noted what looked like ... Read more Read more ›
LLMs and VLMs with MLX Swift. Contribute to ml-explore/mlx-swift-lm development by creating an account on GitHub. Read more ›
This week marked 10 years since the UK chose to leave the EU. In a series of interviews with key players from both sides, Kiran Stacey looks back on the Brexit vote that changed the country foreverRead the Guardian’s full article on Brexit Read more ›
A step-by-step build of Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern — Obsidian as the window, Claude Code as the programmer, and a markdown wiki as… Read more ›
There’s a bunch of travel reports from folks visiting favorite shops around the world, mid-year reflections and lots of creative ideas this week. I think my interest in more collage-y, art journaling projects is that these can be created with things I already have — reuse and repurpose — in a time that making something… Read more ›
Across the sciences, autonomous systems are increasingly being used in closed-loop discovery, proposing new theories and designing and running experiments to test them. This approach is yet to be applied in the field of cognitive science, where the central bottleneck is theory-building: the creative step of turning the accumulated failures of existing models into better ones. Theory generation has remained manual even as data collection, model... Read more ›
Note-taking has always been a difficult task for me. I would rarely write them and, when I happen to write some, they would most certainly never be reviewed. Although there is still some value in writing throwaway notes just for the sake of writing, I wanted to look for a Read more ›
Lessons from Paleoanthropology for the Retrospective Analysis of Historical Malware. Read more ›
"Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy."Henry Wismayer for Noema: class="">noemamag.com/the-mars-delusion/#Longreads #Space #Mars #ElonMusk #Science #Colonization #Planets Read more ›
Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) show that small language models equipped with a transient memory learn grammar more efficiently when trained on child-scale amounts of language input. The findings demonstrate how insights from psycholinguistics can inspire new approaches to AI learning. Read more ›
Zbigniew Herbert - Hermes, Dog and Star Read here I like this prose poem a lot as it tells a mystifying story that is almost like something from a vagu... Read more ›
I had low expectations going into my , but as it turns out, Sailor made a pretty great pen. They have continued to expand the lineup since then, including with the . I have one Crystal White, with a Broad Steel nib, to give away this week, and the winer is: Congrats Josh! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address. Read more ›
Frevert, U., Eitler, P., Olsen, S., Jensen, U., Pernau, M., Brückenhaus, D., … Häberlen, J. (2014). Learning how to feel: Children's literature and emotional socialization, 1870-1970. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from Read more ›
It's funny to see some good old "character introducing isekai people to new-world concepts" shenanigans as Rosemyne blows people's minds with the principles of leverage. Read more ›
The productivity upgrade hiding behind my tab addiction. Read more ›
In a recent post called “Alien Politics” I introduced the idea of abeyance. Here I’m going to expand on that by talking about what kind of person does abeyance, and what kind of institution might practice it. Abeyance is the conscious refusal to decide that you understand something too soon. This is hard to do, because at the very least, we are expected to have an opinion on everything; for many of us, our jobs require us to be able to authoritatively state what we know, and deploy that knowl... Read more ›
Remember refusing to wear a sweater on a winter morning because you thought you knew better? Or complaining about the food your mother cooked, only to discover there was no alternative waiting for you? For many Indians, childhood was filled with small moments like these. The lesson rarely came through long lectures. Instead, it arrived through consequences. Today, social media has given this approach a new name: "FAFO parenting," short for "F**k Around and Find Out." While the phrase may be n... Read more ›