Bookmarks

This document stores important links gathered from all over the internet. Drawn from:

Bookmarks

Handy Statistical Lexicon   glossary

Link: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/

List of important but underrated statistical concepts.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Programming Historian   learning opensource teaching

Link: http://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/

Peer-reviewed tutorials on digital tools, workflows for researchers and educators. Open-source and run by volunteers. Creating interactive text-based games looks very interesting, could improve student engagement if implemented well.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

typing.io   typing

Link: https://typing.io/

Typing practice focused on programmers.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Abstract Algebra Topics   glossary

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abstract_algebra_topics

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Linear Algebra Topics   glossary

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_linear_algebra

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Algebraic Geometry Topics   glossary

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algebraic_geometry_topics

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Group Theory Topics   glossary

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_group_theory_topics

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

distill.pub   blog ml

Link: https://distill.pub/

Great blog on Machine Learning.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

StudyStack Language Flashcards   language

Link: https://www.studystack.com/Languages

Self-contained and works on the browser itself.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Graph theory with D3   teaching

Link: https://d3gt.com/unit.html

Looks like a great resource for anyone starting with graph theory.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Expat-Finland Guidebook   finland

Link: https://www.expat-finland.com/

Single web-page with relevant links for anyone who has recently moved to Finland.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Programmer Competency Matrix   programming selfdev

Link: https://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

Gives a rough idea of what one's next steps should be.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Tests aren't enough   python

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/tests-arent-enough-case-study-after-adding-types-to-urllib3

Failure modes of tests compared to type safety.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Algorithmic Paradigm Topics   glossary

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_paradigm

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

sp-monte-carlo blog   blog ml

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/sp-monte-carlo/blog-posts

Blog on statistics, modeling etc.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Algorithms for Competitive Programming   glossary

Link: https://cp-algorithms.com/#navigation

[2022-07-29 Fri]

NeuG USB Random Number Generator   product

Univariate Distribution Relation chart   glossary

Chevron Mass Industrial Poisoning   

Poverty and Human Development in Different Economic Systems   

Link: https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1528326657500758016

This thread has some papers which look interesting.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

British MPs and Irish Passports   

US National Debt Through the Ages   

Overthewire Wargames   infosec

Link: https://overthewire.org/wargames/

Collection of great infosec exercises similar to a CTF format.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

CTF practice sites and tools   infosec

Link: http://54.212.176.14/practice-ctf/

Collection of content related to CTFs.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Hackerone Active Bug Bountry Programs   infosec

Computer and Network Security by Avinash Kak   infosec

Link: https://engineering.purdue.edu/kak/compsec/NewLectures/

Course on computer security grounded in mathematical as well as pragmatic content.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

CMSC389J - Introduction to Reverse Engineering   infosec

Link: https://gitlab.com/drakemp/cmsc389j

[2022-07-29 Fri]

budgetbytes.com   food

Link: https://www.budgetbytes.com/

Collection of cheap yet tasty recipes.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Adobe Creative Suite Open-Source Alternatives   opensource

Data, Inference, and Decisions UCBerkeley   course ml

Link: https://data102.org/fa21/

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Computational Medicine CMU   course bioinfo

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/computationalmedicine/home?authuser=0

Has a great section with background material for people with little prior experience.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

keybr.com   typing

Link: https://www.keybr.com/

Typing practice with progressively increasing difficulty.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Rosalind Programming Problems   compprog bioinfo

Link: https://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/

List of programming problems related to bioinformatics.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Great Ideas in Theoretical CS CMU   course teaching tcs

Link: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15251/schedule.html

Related to teaching, the extra column with Notes looks like a great idea, also the content covered is quite comprehensive.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Principles of Imperative Computation CMU   teaching programming

Functional Programming CMU   course programming

Competitive Programming and Problem Solving CMU   course compprog

Link: https://contest.cs.cmu.edu/295/

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Introduction to Computer Systems CMU   course cs

Logic Through Python   course teaching logic python

Link: https://www.logicthrupython.org/

Great course which goes over logic using Python.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

nbgrader   teaching python

Link: https://nbgrader.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Great tool to automatically grade code written in Jupyter notebooks, as used in CS-E4890 - Deep Learning at Aalto University.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Virtual Teaching Doesn’t Mean Giving Up on the Live Lecture   teaching

Link: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~kayvonf/notes/virtualclassroom/

Some great tips on how to conduct online lectures and similar events

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Introduction to Colour Schemes   teaching writing

Link: https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/

Information about colour schemes which is relevant for scientific communication about any diagram which involves colour. [2022-07-30 Sat]

Design and Analysis of Algorithms Stanford   course algorithms

Awesome Algorithms   compprog

Intellectual Mathematics   blog teaching course

Link: https://intellectualmathematics.com/manifesto/

Great online textbooks on introductory math topics like calculus, history of mathematics, geometry etc.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Mathematical Foundations of Computing Stanford   course cs

Link: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs103/

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Great Ideas in Computer Science Stanford   course cs

Zen of Scientific Computing   rse

Stripe Atlas   startup

Link: https://stripe.com/en-se/atlas/global

Toolkit which takes care of a lot of administrative details related to running a startup.

[2022-07-30 Sat]

Squat Related Stretching    exercise

Tip on How to Manage TODO List    selfdev

Motivational Quote @iamtrask   selfdev

PhD Survival Thread   selfdev phd 

Networking at Conferences Thread   phd selfdev 

Intuitions for the Algorithms of Machine Learning Duke   course ml

Link: https://users.cs.duke.edu/~cynthia/teaching.html

By Cynthia Rudin.

[2022-08-01 Mon]

EmacsConf 2019 - 26a - Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years - Perry E. Metzger (pmetzger)   emacs

Music app for Android   app

How to create a research poster   research

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYk29tnxASs

Linked by Cindy via Max.

[2022-10-10 Mon]

Differential Programming in JAX   jax

Computer Vision York   course

Introduction to Data Analysis in the Biological Sciences Caltech   course

Link: https://bebi103a.github.io/index.html

[2022-12-17 Sat]

Statistical Inference in the Biological Sciences Caltech   course

Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes Online Resource   course teaching

Link: http://www.randomservices.org/random/

Great resource on the topic with multiple web apps as well.

[2022-12-17 Sat]

Informative Cards on Machine Learning and Related Topics, Frank Nielsen   ml

Link: https://franknielsen.github.io/Cards/index.html

There are 510 cards at the time of saving this bookmark.

[2022-12-17 Sat]

AI-Job Listings   job

Link: https://ai-jobs.net/

[2022-12-17 Sat]

Advanced Matrix Factorization Jungle   ml

Link: https://sites.google.com/site/igorcarron2/matrixfactorizations

Resources related to matrix factorization.

[2022-12-17 Sat]

UChicago Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates Program   teaching math

Explanation and Reproducibility in Data-Driven Science   research

Link: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/01/03/explanation-and-reproducibility-in-data-driven-science-new-course/

Great links to papers which cover a broad range of topics such as statistical significance, interpretability and explainability, reproducibility and replicability etc. in medicine, psychology, machine learning etc.

[2023-01-05 Thu]

Papers, blog posts etc. about machine learning systems in production   practical

FLOSS interview with org-mode creator Carsten Dominik   emacs

Elizabeth Spelke's webpage, Developmental Psychology and more   psychology cognitive science

Link: https://www.harvardlds.org/our-labs/spelke-labspelke-lab-members/elizabeth-spelke/

Based on titles, there are a lot of interesting papers here. Would be nice to have a closer look, especially at the What Babies Know book.

[2023-03-08 Wed]

UFF second hand items Helsinki   finland

Link: https://uff.fi/

[2023-03-09 Thu]

Train stop near to big lake   helsinki

Link: Järvenpää

[2023-03-09 Thu]

Rocketbook - A notebook that syncs notes to the cloud   coding

The Nature of Poly-Existentials: Basis for Abolishment of The Western Intellectual Property Rights Regime   foss

HuggingFace sentence-transformers embeddings   emacs

Link: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers

Might be able to use this instead of OpenAI's embeddings in the emacs ekg package.

[2023-03-12 Sun]

planet.emacslife.com   emacs

Link: https://planet.emacslife.com/

Blog about emacs.

[2023-03-13 Mon]

karthinks.com   emacs

Link: https://karthinks.com/

[2023-03-13 Mon]

HayStack - Semnatic Search Engine   foss pml

Finnish Public Sauna map   finland

PineNote (Remarkable etc. alternative)   @personal

Link: https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/

[2023-04-02 Sun]

Practical Machine Learning Stanford   ml

Stylish White CSS for org-export   website

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms   watchlist

Said to be a good emotional movie.

[2023-04-17 Mon]

Map of GitHub   config

Link: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/#2/0/0

Cool interactive map of projects in GitHub, clustered with similar projects closeby which together make up multiple "nations" with names like "Lispania" etc.

[2023-05-21 Sun]

activity-watch   timetracking

Link: https://activitywatch.net/

Privacy-first application for time-tracking on devices.

[2023-05-21 Sun]

Kahvila Rakastan   helsinki

[2023-05-24 Wed]

The Architecture of Open Source Applications   foss

Link: https://aosabook.org/en/#500lines

[2023-06-18 Sun]

Hydroanaut - Use Hydra and MLflow together   coding

Book of Statistical Proofs   math

Link: https://statproofbook.github.io/I/ToC

[2023-06-18 Sun]

Hinton's Courseera Deep Learning course Lectures   lectures

Deep Reinforcement Learning Bootcap 2017   ml

Streamlit cheatsheet - A Python package to easily deploy Python scripts as web applications   package

RayServe - Python package to help with ML production   ml

PySR - Symbolic Regression in Python   ml

Link: https://astroautomata.com/PySR/

[2023-06-30 Fri]

Docsify.js   website

Link: https://github.com/docsifyjs/docsify/

Great way to make project websites and documentation in one go.

[2023-08-26 Sat]

The purest coding style   coding

Ambdahl's law   productivity

Asking for a letter of recommendation   professional

Learn Vim for the Last Time   vim

Link: https://danielmiessler.com/p/vim/

[2023-10-01 Sun]

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

Link: https://www.c82.net/werner/

[2023-10-14 Sat]

ML from Human Preferences Course Stanford   ml

UCBerkeley Deep Reinforcement Learning course 2023   ml rl

European night-train map   travel

gigaGPT - GPT3 sized models with ~600 lines of code   ml

Link: https://github.com/Cerebras/gigaGPT

[2023-12-13 Wed]

Two-envelopes problem

Nonmonotic logic

UWCS RS118 Rust Course

Link: https://rs118.uwcs.co.uk/

[2024-02-11 Sun]

Matomo cookieless website analytics

Information Geometry in Machine Learning Blog

Libreboot project

The Illustrated Machine Learning Website

120 Data Science Interview Questions

Lightning AI Deep Learning Fundamentals Course

How to setup Facebook with bitlbee-facebook

Gadsby novel - contains only 4 works with 'e'

Git Merge, Squash and Rebase

Recurse - Programming Retreat

Link: https://www.recurse.com/

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Polyglot Keyboard

Google Machine Learning Education

r/FreeMediaHeckYeah

firstbase - Service to incorporate US company

Link: https://www.firstbase.io/

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Old video example without copyright strike on music

karl-voit.at

Link: https://karl-voit.at/

Good blog.

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Modern Unix Programs

Blog on LLVM and related material

Link: https://blog.regehr.org/

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Website Privacy Inspector

Link: https://themarkup.org/blacklight

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Frank Nielsen's cards on Machine Learning and related material

What are embeddings?

SFU Resources on HPC related work

Link: https://training.westdri.ca/

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Eureka - Archimedeans Magazine

Short-term research project advice

Professional Programming Resources

Mathematics of IA by Gabriel Peyre

Gandalf.lakera.ai

Link: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

LLM jailbreaking challenge.

[2024-05-27 Mon]

The Nature of Code

Link: https://natureofcode.com/

[2024-05-27 Mon]

explorabl.es

Link: https://explorabl.es/

A hub for learning through play.

[2024-05-27 Mon]

ciechanow.ski

Link: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

Great visualization of engineering related topics.

[2024-05-27 Mon]

Interactive Machine Learning blogposts

Opinionated History of Mathematics

Spritely: Decentralized Network (Software) Technology

SFU Training on UNIX and related tools

A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing   teaching

Returning to the original social network

indieweb

Link: https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

[2024-09-24 Tue]

Unlock Lisp/Scheme's magic - Beginner to Scheme-in-scheme in 1 hour

Karpathy's PhD survival guide

Awesome math books

Computer memory management reference

Link: https://www.memorymanagement.org/

[2024-10-21 Mon]

Science-based games

Digital morphogenesis resources

Falsehoods programmers believe in

cpu.land

Link: https://cpu.land/

[2024-12-12 Thu]

UWCS Learns Rust

Link: https://rs118.uwcs.co.uk/

[2024-12-12 Thu]

Illustrated Machine Learning

Gadsby - Novel without 'e'

Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences NeurIPS 2023 Workshop

Book of bad choices - An illustrated introduction to computational thinking

Linux Upskill Challenge

Link: https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/

[2024-12-13 Fri]

roadmap.sh

Link: https://roadmap.sh/

[2024-12-13 Fri]

Eclypsium blog

Link: https://eclypsium.com/blog/

Related to digital supply chain security and infrastructure code security.

[2024-12-13 Fri]

Games of Linux console

Link: https://ttygames.wordpress.com/

[2024-12-13 Fri]

12 Steps to Better Code blog post

Law of Leaky Abstractions blog post

Github actions for broken links

System Design Course

System Design Resources

System Design Primer

System Design 101

Software Engineering Blogs

Laurie Tratt blog

Link: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/

[2024-12-16 Mon]

Computing Lives IEEE Podcast

Link: https://efrick.ddns.net/podcasts/ComputingLives/

Seems historically important.

[2024-12-16 Mon]

A Reintroduction to Programming

Link: https://www.0de5.net/explore

[2024-12-16 Mon]

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Linux Weekly News Archive

Link: https://lwn.net/Archives/

[2024-12-16 Mon]

https://github.com/sharkdp/curiosity

Link: https://github.com/sharkdp/curiosity

HTML based puzzle website.

[2024-12-17 Tue]

Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science

Plan 9 Documentation

Link: https://9p.io/sys/doc/

[2024-12-23 Mon]

How to Ask Questions the Smart Way

"What Is" Articles by Nick Higham

Link: https://nhigham.com/index-of-what-is-articles/

Mostly focused on numerical analysis.

[2024-12-31 Tue]

iPhone videos, a look into the past

Link: https://walzr.com/IMG_0001

IMG0001 is the default name. This website shows videos uploaded to YouTube under the name, showing a glimpse of the past in a nostalgic way.

[2024-12-31 Tue]

Haidong's Puzzles

Link: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~hdwang/puzzle.html

Interesting puzzles, some of which are/were interview questions in tech and finance companies.

[2024-12-31 Tue]

Webpage of notes on Stochastic Calculus by George Lowther

Numerical Tours in Python

Link: http://www.numerical-tours.com/python/

Jupyter notebooks with Python examples on various topics related to numerical computing and machine learning.

[2024-12-31 Tue]

Numerical Tours in Julia

Link: https://www.numerical-tours.com/julia/

Jupyter notebooks with Julia examples on various topics related to numerical computing and machine learning.

[2024-12-31 Tue]

Userbar generator

Link: https://r9.pm/userbar_generator/

[2025-01-02 Thu]

Veridical Data Science Online Textbook

Link: https://vdsbook.com/

[2025-01-03 Fri]

Keenan Crane's website

Link: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/

Interesting work in computer graphics.

[2025-01-10 Fri]

Alice's Adventures in a differentiable wonderland

DeepSeek Transformer

Nature Correspondences

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Structured Procrastination

No Free Lunch Theorems

CodeKata

http://codekata.com/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle

Man-Computer Symbiosis

The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science

Adaptive Software

What is a Knowledge Representation?

Workshop in Behavioral Finance

Inconsistent Maximum Likelihood Estimation: An “Ordinary” Example

A little simplicity goes a long way

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Review: Boldrin and Levine, “The case against intellectual property”

Do Programmers Need Seat Belts?

Poisson Disk Sampling

Why did Prolog lose steam?

Why Take a Compiler Course?

If correlation doesn't imply causation, then what does?

Why Take an Embedded Systems Course?

Software Engineering: A Look Back and A Path to the Future

UNIX Philosophy, Fast Food the UNIX way

McClamrock: Marr's Three Levels

Fixed Points and Strike Mandates

Kolmogorov Complexity—A Primer

Why Take an Operating Systems Course?

Confusing familiar with simple

The truth about Richard Branson's Virgin Rail profits

Privatised rail has meant 'higher fares, older trains and bigger taxpayers' bill'

Daniel Everett: 'There is no such thing as universal grammar'

The Biggest Myths in Economics

What I learned from competing against a ConvNet on ImageNet

The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far away.

A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge

E.W.Dijkstra Archive: To the Budget Council (concerning Haskell)

Mark Taver blog : Computing

The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life

The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types

The Web We Have to Save

Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming – colah's blog

Advice for the budding theorist

Silicon soul: the vain dream of electronic immortality

What is Property Based Testing? - Hypothesis

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

At World’s Largest Hedge Fund, Sex, Fear and Video Surveillance

How powerful are Graph Convolutions? (review of Kipf & Welling, 2016)

Graph Convolutional Networks

Enforcing the GNU GPL

A year with Notmuch mail

What does the universal prior actually look like?

Back-propagation, an introduction

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Tutorial - What is a variational autoencoder?

Considerations On Cost Disease

Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies

Evolutionary Optimization as a Variational Method

A Reply to 'The Problems of Open Source

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

Why Github can't host the Linux Kernel Community

This is Water

Column: This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously

Learning From Scratch by Thinking Fast and Slow with Deep Learning and Tree Search

Decision Making and Diversity

Diagnosing Early-Onset Depression in Young Children

How the Teenage Mind is Primed for Anxiety and Depression

Bill Gates and Other Communists

Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet

Rondam Ramblings: Yes, code is data, but that's not what makes Lisp cool

From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited

Has computationalism failed?

Welcome to State of AI Report 2024

https://www.stateof.ai/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

The advantages of an email-driven git workflow

Augmenting Long-term Memory

Topicbox

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear

Git is already federated

Rules of Machine Learning: Google for Developers

Accelerating Natural Gradient with Higher-Order Invariance

Why being afraid of Algorithms and Data Structures sucks, and how to get over it

Stacked Diffs Versus Pull Requests

Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down - The Pragmatic Engineer

Normative assumptions: answers, emotions, and narratives

Vimways ~ Death by a thousand files

IQ is largely a psuedoscientific swindle

What AI Safety Researchers Have Written About the Nature of Human Values

Learning values, or defining them?

Quantum computing for the very curious

https://quantum.country/qcvc

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL

The Illustrated Word2vec

Probabilistic Modeling and Statistical Inference

Our values are underdefined, changeable, and manipulable

WTF Happened In 1971?

Milton Friedman's Shareholder Theory Was Wrong

In praise of property-based testing

Cognitively Enhanced Humans Will be More Valuable Than Unenhanced Humans - and We Need to Talk About it - Dan Faggella

Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI

Advice for Parents on Caring for Bipolar Disorder

The Cathedral and the Bizarre

Free as in Do as Your Told

Typical Teen Behavior or Something More?

2019 Leading Research Achievements

Don't Do Complex Folder Hierarchies - They Don't Work and This Is Why and What to Do Instead

An Opinionated Guide to ML Research

Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python - Dropbox

Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life

Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks

Know Your Enemy #16: The Windbag City, with Marshall Steinbaum

The Balfour Declaration at 100 and How It Redefined Indigenous People

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

Heidegger vs. Carnap - How logic took issue with metaphysics

Zero-Knowledge Proofs from Information-Theoretic Proof Systems - Part I - ZKProof Standards

Zero-Knowledge Proofs from Information-Theoretic Proof Systems - Part II - ZKProof Standards

Self-Love and What It Means

How to Get a Good Night Sleep When Stressed

Playing with Randomness and Interactions to Prove Theorems - ZKProof Standards

Differential Privacy - Reconstruction Attacks in Practice

Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation

How to Learn Better in the Digital Age

Not every REINFORCE should be called Reinforcement Learning

Probabilistic Circuits for Variational Inference in Discrete Graphical Models

In Praise of Deep Work, Full Disconnectivity and Deliberate Rest

How I Learned to Love the Email Patch Developer Workflow

The Notetaking Cold War

Equity 101 for Software Engineers at Big Tech and Startups

How To Wake Up at 5 A.M. Every Day

Moore's Law for Everything

Response to 'Philosophy of Probability II - Existential Risks'

Artificial Curiosity Since 1990

Autodidax: JAX core from scratch & JAX documentation

1931: Theoretical Computer Science & AI Theory Founded by Goedel

Advantages of Data Oriented Programming

How startup funding works, and why we decided to bootstrap

Common Inaccuracies in Multi-Agent RL Research

Accelerating Psychiatric Drug Development

Unit testing with the Hypothesis library

Bayesian Posteriors are Calibrated by Definition

A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks

Understanding Convolutions on Graphs

Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics

Rationalism versus empiricism

Detecting “Action” and “Cut” in Archival Footage Using a Multi-model Computer Vision and Audio Approach with Azure Cognitive Services

Why Co–Star uses Haskell

Differential Privacy - How to deploy machine learning with differential privacy?

Transformers from Scratch

‘An Epidemic of Loneliness and Despair’: How Wisdom Can Help

Recent Progresses in Multi-Agent RL Theory

Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

The Future of Artificial Intelligence is Self-Organizing and Self-Assembling

GNNs through the lens of differential geometry and algebraic topology

To Understand Language is to Understand Generalization

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits

Challenging projects every programmer should try

ML Systems Will Have Weird Failure Modes

What are Diffusion Models?

Implicit Bayesian Inference in Large Language Models

In-context Learning and Induction Heads

Transformers are Graph Neural Networks

Making Deep Learning go Brrrr From First Principles

Why we stopped making Einsteins

Where Do Q-Functions Come From?

Written by Witten: So long, and thanks for all the tips

Confidence intervals, compatability intervals, uncertainty intervals

Deceptively Aligned Mesa-Optimizers: It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It

Podcast: Sam Bankman-Fried Described Yield Farming and Left Matt Levine Stunned

Introduction to Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design

Engineering best practices for Data Science projects

The Big Six Matrix Factorizations

A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs

Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript

How to handle a hands-off supervisor

The Grug Brained Developer

https://grugbrain.dev/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Softmax Linear Units

Itô and Stratonovich; a guide for the perplexed

AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery

How Can We Make Robotics More like Generative Modeling?

Craftsmen: Capitalism’s Conscientious Objectors

Faith in an Unregulated Free Market? Don’t Fall for It

Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution

Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: What We Know, and Still Don’t Know

Advice for Parents on Early Signs of Schizophrenia

AI And The Limits Of Language

Our approach to alignment research

Ten questions about the hard limits of human intelligence

Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines

I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health

Toy Models of Superposition

Bayesian vs. Frequentist Statements About Treatment Efficacy

The Illustrated Stable Diffusion

Russell Napier: The world will experience a capex boom

The Russian Roulette: An Unbiased Estimator of the Limit

Introduction To Probabilistic Programming

When Should You Use Hypermedia?

Publishing data with Datasette

Deriving the objective in Hensman et al. 2015

Why Mathematicians Study Knots

Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law

Simple Monte Carlo is independent of dimension. Or is it ?

Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscience

Circling back to an old Bayesian “counterexample”

Universality of Neural Networks on Graphs vs. Sets

AlphaFold Impact stories - Google DeepMind

Trip Report: NAACL 2022

Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?

The rise and fall of peer review

After AlphaFold: protein-folding contest seeks next big breakthrough

Modeling Mind: Theory of Mind in Linguistic Communication

MLOps: the evolution of the T-shaped engineer

Top Python libraries of 2022

Does the existence of widespread belief in political disinformation demonstrate that humans are not Bayesians?

An epic AI Debate—and why everyone should be at least a little bit worried about AI going into 2023

Topics and Techniques in Distribution Testing (Survey)

How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: a Worklog

The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art

Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent

Towards Deployable RL - What’s Broken with RL Research and a Potential Fix

Neural Networks: Zero To Hero

Sam Altman

Wolfram Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

Getting Collective Feedback From Your Advisees

Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Language, vision and generative models

How Grenoble has mastered industry–academia science collaborations

The breaking point

Relearning how to learn

What we look for in a resume

Just know stuff. (Or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD.)

Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm

The story behind the Packing Chromatic paper

An introduction to functional programming for scalable statistical computing and machine learning

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

All You Need to Know about Spherical Harmonics

On Slow Productivity and the Anti-Busyness Revolution

programmers go bananas

The Deep Reset

In Defense of Thinking

On the Structured Pursuit of Depth

Nonlinear computation in deep linear networks

Online gradient descent written in SQL

Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How

On Pace and Productivity

Brandon Sanderson Built an Underground Lair in Suburban Utah

Tufte’s NYC Weather in 2003 In Matplotlib

What Can We Learn from Sensitivity Analysis of One-dimensional Chaos?

KerGIS.com: kerTeX : Take Care of TeX!

On Michael Crichton's Busy Ambition

Of course Grover’s algorithm offers a quantum advantage!

We May be Surprised Again: Why I take LLMs seriously.

On Learning Outside Institutions

AI risk ≠ AGI risk

Improved Translation of “Communications with Zettelkastens”

Simple Rules to Understand Medical Claims

The Free Software Foundation is dying

Semantic Search for Org roam

Meta-Policy Gradients: A Survey

Deep Adaptive Design and Bayesian reinforcement learning

The Art of Multiple Dispatch

Computational Lens on Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, Part 1

The ‘Don’t Look Up’ Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI

Life After Language

How to submit a patch by email, 2023 edition

Priors and generalization

You And Your Research, by Richard W. Hamming

How Rogue AIs may Arise

Top AI researcher dismisses AI extinction fears, challenges 'hero scientist' narrative

What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?

We may finally crack Maths. But should we?

Our lives may be enhanced by AI, but Big Tech just sees dollar signs

https://archive.ph/BEb0i

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Introducing Hypothesis GU Funcs, an Open Source Python Package for Unit Testing

“Bayes is guaranteed to overfit”: What does this mean? There’s a factor of 2 here.

Work and the Deep Life

Transformer Inference Arithmetic

Are there always trade offs?

Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?

Prof. Patrick Rinke: making sustainable materials with AI

Expectile regression

Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks

Data Processing Inequalities and Function-Space Variational Inference (#1)

“This is an unprecedented overflow”: Why the progress of his field alarms Yurii Nesterov

What is gradient descent and why should I care?

Complexity Theory’s Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge

GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

The Python dictionary dispatch pattern

Polars vs. pandas: What’s the Difference?

The Stoics were right – emotional control is good for the soul

Emacs and the Cybernetic Productivity

Winding down

How I think about LLM prompt engineering

17 Small Changes That Will Make Your Writing Irresistible, According to an NYU Writing Professor

The problem of management in two graphs

Teach Llamas to Talk: Recent Progress in Instruction Tuning

I can't sleep

WeatherBench 2: A benchmark for the next generation of data-driven weather model

The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about it

John Mandrola’s tips for assessing medical evidence

Teens, Screens and Well-Being: An Improved Approach

Score-based generative models: Score matching

Arbitrage in data exchange rates

Score-based Generative Models based on SDEs/ODEs

What We've Learned to Control

Emacs tweaks: Choosing what to hack on

“Are polynomial features the root of all evil?”

How to Scale Hyperparameters as Batch Size Increases

My research idea logfile, 2016-2019

Randomly Revealing Hidden Truths

Mixed-input matrix multiplication performance optimizations

'The Progress of Knowledge Has Led to a Regression of Thought' By Edgar Morin

On the Utility of Conformal Prediction Intervals

All models are wrong, but some are dangerous

Lisp macro

Hamilton, the Quaternions, and Creativity

An introduction to Flow Matching

Meta and Lavender

Rational drug design with AlphaFold 3

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules

Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet

Stress-Testing Large Language Models’ Analogical Reasoning Abilities

Revisiting the Revisit of the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment

"Blooming, Buzzing Confusion" - But Who Is Confused?

NVIDIA Summer internship postmortem

From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts

No, intelligence is not like height

Hopfield Networks is All You Need

MLOps guide

https://huyenchip.com/mlops/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Intro to SSMs

SSM nets & S4

The Mamba models

The Annotated S4

How I exited the cloud

The Emperor’s New Clouds

A survey of tokenization in different data domains

Some thoughts on how to get an AI scientist

What should we do about Climate Change?

Efficient finetuning of Llama 3 with FSDP QDoRA

The 37 Implementation Details of Proximal Policy Optimization

Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C

The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition)

Use These Simple Strategies to Retain Everything You Read

https://fs.blog/reading/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers

Self-guaranteeing promises

Algebraic geometry for the working programmer

Why I Think More NLP Researchers Should Engage with AI Safety Concerns

OpenAI's o3: The grand finale of AI in 2024

Write your Own Virtual Machine

How to Boost Your Creativity

Some Intuition Boosters

Why Can’t Programmers… Program?

Lena @ Things Of Interest

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

[2025-06-02 Mon]

How I learned to stop worrying and write ELBO (and its gradients) in a billion ways

How UNIX spell ran in 64KB RAM

Learning CUDA by optimizing softmax: A worklog

Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape

On DeepSeek and Export Controls

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

https://aosabook.org/en

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown

The Ultra-Scale Playbook - a Hugging Face Space by nanotron

Deriving Muon

The left needs its own version of techno-optimism

Unraveling spectral properties of kernel matrices

Unraveling spectral properties of kernel matrices – II

Diffusion Meets Flow Matching

Attention is logarithmic, actually

Digital hygiene

Why you should pin your GitHub Actions by commit-hash

How I've run major projects

https://www.benkuhn.net/pjm/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newton Gets an Update

Generalization of Diffusion Models: Principles, Theory, and Implications

Gradual disempowerment

The group chats that changed America

Reexamining the Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Dichotomy

How to choose a research question?

I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

Building Software with AI - A LEGO Inspired Vision

How to Get Your PhD Paper Accepted

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know

Optimizing LLM-based trip planning (Google Blog)

Emacs 29.3 (Org mode 9.6.15)