finding the right peopleEdit
Don’t surround yourself with “smarter” people. The trick is to surround yourself with people who are free in ways you’re not.
Links
interesting things written by other people
COVID-19 Is a Vascular Disease: Coronavirus’ Spike Protein Attacks Vascular System on a Cellular LevelEdit
The COVID Heart—One Year After SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Patients Have an Array of Increased Cardiovascular RisksEdit
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4Edit
Banking in very uncertain timesEdit
Diffusion language modelsEdit
Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfacesEdit
Thinking companion, companion for thinkingEdit
How to fix “Running Scripts is Disabled on this System”Edit
Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple taskEdit
live air traffic control radio mixed with lofi hip hopEdit
The age of averageEdit
SurfBenchEdit
Direct and indirect impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the brainEdit
Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models (PDF)Edit
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucketEdit
this is comforting. let lots go
The darker side of making musicEdit
Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignmentEdit
Slowed canonical progress in large fields of scienceEdit
too many papers being published leads to “ossification of canon”
I'm a very slow thinker (2016)Edit
EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA's games with itEdit
It's very weird to have a skull full of poisonEdit
The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAIEdit
strange to imagine the alternate future if he had actually paid the first billion
How Meat and Fossil Fuel Producers Watered Down the Latest IPCC ReportEdit
The Anglsphere needs to learn to love apartment livingEdit
Perceptrons: an introduction to computational geometryEdit
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I Table of ContentsEdit
Don’t panic about social media harming your child’s mental health – the evidence is weakEdit
AI and the American SmileEdit
Radiooooo - Musical Time MachineEdit
Color-dependent motion illusions in stationary images: What causes illusoryEdit
Tailwind marketing and misinformation engineEdit
Let's think about slowing down AIEdit
The Planet Can Do Better Than the Electric CarEdit
Cheating is All You NeedEdit
Why Psychotherapists Don't Give AdviceEdit
therapy isn’t about gleaning advice; it’s about developing the capacity to seriously consider the advice you’ve already received
Opening a dam gate after 30 years, Jiroft, IranEdit
How Do Ships Survive Storms?Edit
Impressive survival rate for so many ships
The Story of J Dilla ‘Donuts’Edit
mostly recorded from hospital!
QanatEdit
Underground aquaducts
Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?Edit
Clip of Johnny Lee’s Wiimote hack to create VR displays (from 2007!)
The third magicEdit
Watching Paint DryEdit
on the slowest part of making cars
A wiser sympathyEdit
Theories on plant intelligence
Creatures That Don’t ConformEdit
Essay about slime molds