Bookmarks

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Bookmarks

Handy Statistical Lexicon   stats glossary

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

List of important but underrated statistical concepts.

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ihatepdf.cv   tool

Link: https://www.ihatepdf.cv/

Find/build a CLI/TUI tool with these features.

[2026-01-27 Tue]

Programming Historian   foss 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]

Abstract Algebra Topics   algebra glossary

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

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Linear Algebra Topics   linear_algebra glossary

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

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Algebraic Geometry Topics   algebraic_geometry glossary

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

Wikipedia entry.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Group Theory Topics   group_theory 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, also runs on the web browser.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

Graph theory with D3   graph_theory 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]

Tests aren't enough   programming 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   teaching 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]

Univariate Distribution Relation chart   teaching glossary

Chevron Mass Industrial Poisoning   politics 

Poverty and Human Development in Different Economic Systems   politics 

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

This thread has some papers which look interesting.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

British MPs and Irish Passports   politics 

US National Debt Through the Ages   politics 

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   glossary 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   course infosec

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

Course on computer security grounded in both mathematical and pragmatic content.

[2022-07-29 Fri]

CMSC389J - Introduction to Reverse Engineering   course 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]

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   competitive_prog 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   course programming

Functional Programming CMU   course programming

Competitive Programming and Problem Solving CMU   course competitive_prog

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   competitive_prog

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 - Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years   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 vision

Introduction to Data Analysis in the Biological Sciences Caltech   course bioinfo

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

[2022-12-17 Sat]

Statistical Inference in the Biological Sciences Caltech   course bioinfo

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

AI-Job Listings   job

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

[2022-12-17 Sat]

Advanced Matrix Factorization Jungle   linear_algebra 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   glossary ml

FLOSS interview with org-mode creator Carsten Dominik   emacs

Elizabeth Spelke's webpage, Developmental Psychology and more   psychology

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]

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   bib foss

HayStack - Semantic Search Engine   foss ml

PineNote (Remarkable etc. alternative)   @personal

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

[2023-04-02 Sun]

Practical Machine Learning Stanford   course 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   course ml

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

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   writing

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

[2023-10-14 Sat]

ML from Human Preferences Course Stanford   course ml

UCBerkeley Deep Reinforcement Learning course 2023   course 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   misc

Nonmonotic logic   logic

UWCS RS118 Rust Course   rust course

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

[2024-02-11 Sun]

Matomo cookieless website analytics   website

Information Geometry in Machine Learning Blog   ml

Libreboot project   foss

The Illustrated Machine Learning Website   ml blog

120 Data Science Interview Questions   job

Lightning AI Deep Learning Fundamentals Course   ml course

Gadsby novel - contains no words with 'e'   misc

r/FreeMediaHeckYeah   foss

firstbase - Service to incorporate US company   startup

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

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Old video example without copyright strike on music   misc

Blog on LLVM and related material   blog

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

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Website Privacy Inspector   web privacy

Link: https://themarkup.org/blacklight   privacy

[2024-02-16 Fri]

Frank Nielsen's cards on Machine Learning and related material   ml teaching

Short-term (MSc level) research project advice   research

Professional Programming Resources   glossary programming

Gandalf.lakera.ai   infosec llm

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

LLM jailbreaking challenge.

[2024-05-27 Mon]

The Nature of Code   programming

Link: https://natureofcode.com/

[2024-05-27 Mon]

explorabl.es   teaching

Link: https://explorabl.es/

A hub for learning through play.

[2024-05-27 Mon]

ciechanow.ski   teaching

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

Great visualization of engineering related topics.

[2024-05-27 Mon]

Interactive Machine Learning blogposts   ml teaching

Opinionated History of Mathematics   math

Spritely: Decentralized Network (Software) Technology   web

SFU Training on UNIX and related tools   course

A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing   cs teaching

Returning to the original social network   web

indieweb   web

Link: https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

[2024-09-24 Tue]

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

Karpathy's PhD survival guide   productivity

Computer memory management reference   lowlvl teaching

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

[2024-10-21 Mon]

Science-based games   teaching

Digital morphogenesis resources   misc

Falsehoods programmers believe in   programming

cpu.land   lowlvl cs

Link: https://cpu.land/

[2024-12-12 Thu]

Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences NeurIPS 2023 Workshop   ml

Linux Upskill Challenge   linux

Link: https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/

[2024-12-13 Fri]

roadmap.sh   professional

Link: https://roadmap.sh/

[2024-12-13 Fri]

Games of Linux console   games linux

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

[2024-12-13 Fri]

12 Steps to Better Code blog post   bib programming

Law of Leaky Abstractions blog post   bib programming

System Design Course   swe course

System Design Resources   glossary swe

System Design Primer   swe

System Design 101   swe

Laurie Tratt blog   blog

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

[2024-12-16 Mon]

Computing Lives IEEE Podcast   podcast cs

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

Seems historically important.

[2024-12-16 Mon]

A Reintroduction to Programming   lowlvl course programming

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

[2024-12-16 Mon]

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto   bib

Linux Weekly News Archive   linux

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

[2024-12-16 Mon]

https://github.com/sharkdp/curiosity   games misc

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

HTML based puzzle website.

[2024-12-17 Tue]

Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science   ml course

How to Ask Questions the Smart Way   bib selfdev professional

"What Is" Articles by Nick Higham   math blog

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   misc

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   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]

Numerical Tours in Python   ml math course

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   course ml math

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   misc website

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

[2025-01-02 Thu]

Keenan Crane's website   graphics blog

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

Interesting work in computer graphics.

[2025-01-10 Fri]

DeepSeek Transformer   ml

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/   ml math blog

Link: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/

[2025-05-04 Sun]

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years   bib

Link: https://norvig.com/21-days.html

[2025-06-02 Mon]

On time management   productivity

What is a Knowledge Representation?   ml

Workshop in Behavioral Finance   finance

A little simplicity goes a long way   productivity

Do Programmers Need Seat Belts?   swe productivity

Link: https://dreamsongs.com/SeatBelts.html

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Why did Prolog lose steam?   programming

Why Take a Compiler Course?   compilers lowlvl

Link: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/169

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Why Take an Embedded Systems Course?   lowlvl

Link: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/195

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Why Take an Operating Systems Course?   os

Link: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/164

[2025-06-02 Mon]

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

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

Link: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/cacm.html

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Rewarding complexity   productivity

Kolmogorov Complexity—A Primer   tcs

The truth about Richard Branson's Virgin Rail profits   economics politics

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

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

The Biggest Myths in Economics   economics

The Myth of the Teen Brain   psychology

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

A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge   misc

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

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   math programming

The Web We Have to Save   web

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

Advice for the budding theorist   tcs

A year with Notmuch mail   

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/705856/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

What does the universal prior actually look like?   ml

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People   ai_safety

Considerations On Cost Disease   economics

Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies   productivity

Reality has a surprising amount of detail   misc

Why Github can't host the Linux Kernel Community   foss

This is Water   misc

Link: https://folinoid.com/thisiswater.html

[2025-06-02 Mon]

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

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

Decision Making and Diversity   ml

Diagnosing Early-Onset Depression in Young Children   mental_health

How the Teenage Mind is Primed for Anxiety and Depression   mental_health

Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet   ml rl

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

Conservation of Expected Evidence   ai_safety math

From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited   politics

Has computationalism failed?   ml

The advantages of an email-driven git workflow   git 

Augmenting Long-term Memory   productivity

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear   politics

Git is already federated   git

Accelerating Natural Gradient with Higher-Order Invariance   ml

Stacked Diffs Versus Pull Requests   git

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

Vimways ~ Death by a thousand files   vim

IQ is largely a psuedoscientific swindle   misc

Learning values or defining them   ai_safety

Quantum computing for the very curious   quantum_computing

Link: https://quantum.country/qcvc

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL   emacs

The Illustrated Word2vec   ml

Probabilistic Modeling and Statistical Inference   ml

What failure looks like   ai_safety

Our values are underdefined, changeable, and manipulable   ai_safety

WTF Happened In 1971?   economics

Link: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Friedrich Hayek: In defence of dictatorship   politics economics

Milton Friedman's Shareholder Theory Was Wrong   economics

In praise of property-based testing   programming

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

Is Inequality Inevitable?   society economics politics

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

Advice for Parents on Caring for Bipolar Disorder   mental_health

The Cathedral and the Bizarre   misc

Free as in Do as Your'e Told   foss

Typical Teen Behavior or Something More?   mental_health

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

An Opinionated Guide to ML Research   research ml

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

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

Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks   politics math

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

The Balfour Declaration at 100 and How It Redefined Indigenous People   politics

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden   productivity website

Heidegger vs. Carnap - How logic took issue with metaphysics   philosophy logic

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

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

Mesa-Search vs. Meta-Control   ai_safety

Self-Love and What It Means   mental_health

How to Get a Good Night Sleep When Stressed   productivity

Playing with Randomness and Interactions to Prove Theorems - ZKProof Standards   tcs

Differential Privacy - Reconstruction Attacks in Practice   ml

Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation   ml

How to Learn Better in the Digital Age   productivity

Not every REINFORCE should be called Reinforcement Learning   rl ml

Probabilistic Circuits for Variational Inference in Discrete Graphical Models   ml

In Praise of Deep Work, Full Disconnectivity and Deliberate Rest   productivity

How I Learned to Love the Email Patch Developer Workflow   git 

Equity 101 for Software Engineers at Big Tech and Startups   startup

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

Artificial Curiosity Since 1990   rl ml

Autodidax: JAX core from scratch & JAX documentation   jax

1931: Theoretical Computer Science & AI Theory Founded by Goedel   tcs

How startup funding works, and why we decided to bootstrap   startup

Accelerating Psychiatric Drug Development   misc

Bayesian Posteriors are Calibrated by Definition   ml

A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks   ml

Link: https://distill.pub/2021/gnn-intro/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Understanding Convolutions on Graphs   ml

Calendar. Not to-do lists.   productivity

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

Rationalism versus empiricism   philosophy

Why Co–Star uses Haskell   haskell programming

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

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

Recent Progresses in Multi-Agent RL Theory   rl ml

Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry   philosophy

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

Challenging projects every programmer should try   programming

The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free software users   foss

ML Systems Will Have Weird Failure Modes   ml

The Scientific Virtues   science

What are Diffusion Models?   ml

Implicit Bayesian Inference in Large Language Models   ml llm

Transformers are Graph Neural Networks   ml

Making Deep Learning go Brrrr From First Principles   ml

Link: https://horace.io/brrrintro.html

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Where Do Q-Functions Come From?   rl ml

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

Confidence intervals, compatability intervals, uncertainty intervals   stats

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

Freedom to wander and freedom to fail   misc

Engineering best practices for Data Science projects   swe ml

The Big Six Matrix Factorizations   linear_algebra math

A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs   emacs

Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript   programming

How to handle a hands-off supervisor   productivity

The Grug Brained Developer   programming

Link: https://grugbrain.dev/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Softmax Linear Units   ml

Itô and Stratonovich; a guide for the perplexed   math

A Scheme Primer   lisp

AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery   ml science

How Can We Make Robotics More like Generative Modeling?   ml

Craftsmen: Capitalism’s Conscientious Objectors   misc

Trickle-Down Economics Fails a Sophisticated Statistical Test   economics

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

Median utility rather than mean?   ai_safety

Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution   ml

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

Advice for Parents on Early Signs of Schizophrenia   mental_health

AI And The Limits Of Language   ml

Simulators   ai_safety ml

Ten questions about the hard limits of human intelligence   psychology ml

Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines   ml swe

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

Toy Models of Superposition   ml

Bayesian vs. Frequentist Statements About Treatment Efficacy   stats ml

The Illustrated Stable Diffusion   ml

Russell Napier: The world will experience a capex boom   economics

The Russian Roulette: An Unbiased Estimator of the Limit   ml

Introduction To Probabilistic Programming   ml

When Should You Use Hypermedia?   website

Publishing data with Datasette   ml

Deriving the objective in Hensman et al. 2015   ml

Why Mathematicians Study Knots   math

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

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

Things could be better   society

Circling back to an old Bayesian “counterexample”   stats

Preferences over Non-rewards   ai_safety

Policy Alignment   ai_safety

Universality of Neural Networks on Graphs vs. Sets   ml

AlphaFold Impact stories - Google DeepMind   science ml

Trip Report: NAACL 2022   productivity

Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)   ml rl

Link: https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model   ml

What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?   ai_safety

The rise and fall of peer review   science

After AlphaFold: protein-folding contest seeks next big breakthrough   science ml

Modeling Mind: Theory of Mind in Linguistic Communication   ml

Training 1 Million ML Models in Record Time   ml

The End of Programming   ml programming

MLOps: the evolution of the T-shaped engineer   ml swe

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

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

The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art   ml

Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent   ml

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

Neural Networks: Zero To Hero   ml

Link: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Getting Collective Feedback From Your Advisees   productivity

How Grenoble has mastered industry–academia science collaborations   science startup

The breaking point   mental_health

Relearning how to learn   productivity

What we look for in a resume   job professional

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

Never Test for Normality   stats

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

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

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web   ml

All You Need to Know about Spherical Harmonics   math

On Slow Productivity and the Anti-Busyness Revolution   productivity

programmers go bananas   programming

The Deep Reset   productivity

In Defense of Thinking   productivity

On the Structured Pursuit of Depth   productivity

Nonlinear computation in deep linear networks   ml

Online gradient descent written in SQL   programming ml

On Pace and Productivity   productivity

Category Theory Illustrated   math

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

Problems Better Than Solutions   research

Of course Grover’s algorithm offers a quantum advantage!   quantum_computing

Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7143

[2025-06-02 Mon]

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

On Learning Outside Institutions   selfdev

Simple Rules to Understand Medical Claims   science

The Free Software Foundation is dying   foss

Semantic Search for Org roam   emacs

Meta-Policy Gradients: A Survey   rl ml

Deep Adaptive Design and Bayesian reinforcement learning   ml rl

The Art of Multiple Dispatch   programming

Computational Lens on Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, Part 1   tcs

Life After Language   misc

How to submit a patch by email, 2023 edition    git

Priors and generalization   ml

How Rogue AIs may Arise   ai_safety

Top AI researcher dismisses AI extinction fears, challenges 'hero scientist' narrative   ai_safety ml society research

What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?   politics

We may finally crack Maths. But should we?   ml

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

Link: https://archive.ph/BEb0i

[2025-06-02 Mon]

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

Work and the Deep Life   productivity

Are there always trade offs?   ai_safety

Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?   ml

Prof. Patrick Rinke: making sustainable materials with AI   ml science

Expectile regression   ml

Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks   psychology ai_safety

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

What is gradient descent and why should I care?   ml

Complexity Theory’s Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge   tcs

GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?   programming

The Python dictionary dispatch pattern   python swe

The Emotional Benefits of Wandering   mental_health

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

Emacs and the Cybernetic Productivity   productivity emacs

Winding down   mental_health productivity

How I think about LLM prompt engineering   productivity llm

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

The problem of management in two graphs   productivity

Paradigm Shifts   science

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

John Mandrola’s tips for assessing medical evidence   stats

Teens, Screens and Well-Being: An Improved Approach   mental_health

Link: https://amyorben.com/uploads/thesis/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

The Random Transformer   ml

Score-based generative models: Score matching   ml

Arbitrage in data exchange rates   misc

Score-based Generative Models based on SDEs/ODEs   ml

What We've Learned to Control   control_theory

“Are polynomial features the root of all evil?”   ml

How to Scale Hyperparameters as Batch Size Increases   ml

My research idea logfile, 2016-2019   productivity research

Randomly Revealing Hidden Truths   ai_safety

Mixed-input matrix multiplication performance optimizations   programming math

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

On the Utility of Conformal Prediction Intervals   ml

All models are wrong, but some are dangerous   ai_safety

Lisp macro   lisp

Link: https://wiki.c2.com/?LispMacro

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Hamilton, the Quaternions, and Creativity   science

An introduction to Flow Matching   ml

Meta and Lavender   politics society

Rational drug design with AlphaFold 3   ml science

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

Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet   ml llm

Stress-Testing Large Language Models’ Analogical Reasoning Abilities   ml llm

Revisiting the Revisit of the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment   science

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

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

No, intelligence is not like height   science

Hopfield Networks is All You Need   ml

MLOps guide   swe ml

Link: https://huyenchip.com/mlops/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Intro to SSMs   ml ssm

SSM nets & S4   ssm ml

The Mamba models   ml ssm

The Annotated S4   ml ssm

Link: https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

The Emperor’s New Clouds   web

A survey of tokenization in different data domains   ml

Some thoughts on how to get an AI scientist   ml research

What should we do about Climate Change?   society

Efficient finetuning of Llama 3 with FSDP QDoRA   ml llm

The 37 Implementation Details of Proximal Policy Optimization   rl ml

Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C   programming c

The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition)   c programming

Use These Simple Strategies to Retain Everything You Read   productivity

Link: https://fs.blog/reading/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

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

Link: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Self-guaranteeing promises   misc

Link: https://stephango.com/self-guarantee

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Algebraic geometry for the working programmer   algebraic_geometry

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

Link: https://wp.nyu.edu/arg/why-ai-safety/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Write your Own Virtual Machine   lowlvl

Link: https://www.jmeiners.com/lc3-vm/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Data Science at the Singularity   ml

Some Intuition Boosters   misc

Why Can’t Programmers… Program?   programming

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

Agents   ml llm

How UNIX spell ran in 64KB RAM   lowlvl

Learning CUDA by optimizing softmax: A worklog   gpu

RL FAQ   ml rl

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

On DeepSeek and Export Controls   ml politics

The Architecture of Open Source Applications   swe foss

Link: https://aosabook.org/en

[2025-06-02 Mon]

Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations   ml llm

In science we trust   politics society science

The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown   politics

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

The Town That Went Feral   politics

Deriving Muon   ml math

Reflections on Rusting Trust   rust

The left needs its own version of techno-optimism   society

Unraveling spectral properties of kernel matrices   ml math

Unraveling spectral properties of kernel matrices – II   ml math

Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory   games ai_safety

Diffusion Meets Flow Matching   ml

Link: https://diffusionflow.github.io/

[2025-06-02 Mon]

How I've run major projects   productivity

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

[2025-06-02 Mon]

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

Gradual disempowerment   ml society

The group chats that changed America   politics

How to choose a research question?   research

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

Building Software with AI - A LEGO Inspired Vision   swe

How to Get Your PhD Paper Accepted   productivity

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

Optimizing LLM-based trip planning (Google Blog)   ml llm

Anthropic - How we built our multi-agent research system   ml ai_safety

You could have designed state of the art positional encoding   ml

Being Too Ambitious is a Clever Form of Self-Sabotage   selfdev

HuggingFace Blog, Articles and Discussions   ml blog

Link: https://huggingface.co/blog

[2025-07-16 Wed]

Large Models   course ml

https://www.fast.ai/   blog ml

Link: https://www.fast.ai/

[2025-07-16 Wed]

Machines of Faithful Obedience   ai_safety

You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites   misc

Physics-based simulation book   science

Link: https://phys-sim-book.github.io/

[2025-07-24 Thu]

Playing with containers and Tor   bib infosec

The Bipolar LISP Programmer   bib lisp

Usenet Archives   glossary

Link: https://yarchive.net/home.html

[2025-07-28 Mon]

Graph Foundation Models for Relational Data   ml

Deep Learning Course IITM   course

The rise and fall of Bayesian statistics   stats

Beej's Guides   blog

Link: https://beej.us/guide/

Include content on network programming, C programming etc.

[2025-08-10 Sun]

The Last Dataset   society

Why PhD Students Should Read the History of Science   research

TiRex: LSTMs Take The Lead Again in Time Series Forecasting   ml

A Visual Guide to Quantization   ml

The Divergent Association Task   misc

Link: https://www.datcreativity.com/

Short (under 4 minutes) task that measures verbal creativity.

[2025-09-16 Tue]

Roadmap: Understanding GPU Architecture   gpu

Pursuing the Nature of Intelligence   ml

surveillancewatch.io   privacy infosec

Link: surveillancewatch.io

Maps companies behind global surveillance and spyware technology.

[2025-09-18 Thu]

FAQs About AI Evals   ml ai_safety

dots.ocr   tool

Link: https://huggingface.co/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr

Multilingual document parser, unifying layout detection and content recognition.

[2025-09-19 Fri]

Scale-space theory   math

Structure Tensor   math

Attention Sinks From the Graph Perspective   ml

How to Slow Down Scientific Progress   research society science

The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List   ml glossary

First Complete Cellular Map of Adult Mouse Brain   science

Celebrate 50 Years of Microsoft - Original Source Code   foss

Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software   swe llm

michaelpitr.substack.com   programming blog

Link: https://michalpitr.substack.com/

[2025-09-26 Fri]

How great minds were once formed   society research

Why we stopped making Einsteins   society research

Gumbel-max trick and weighted reservoir sampling   stats

METR: Model Evaluation and Threat Research   ai_safety

Link: https://metr.org/

[2025-09-29 Mon]

epoch.ai: Investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society   society ai_safety

Link: https://epoch.ai/

[2025-09-29 Mon]

Modular Manifolds   math ml

Research as a Stochastic Decision Process   research

postbayes.github.io/seminar   stats

Link: https://postbayes.github.io/seminar/

[2025-10-02 Thu]

Philosophy of Bayesian Inference   philosophy stats

Nuances of Probability Theory   math

AI FAQ/Neural Nets Index   glossary ml

The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit!   gpu

Nice Code Bro, Too Bad Its Just a Wrapper Over Math   math programming

How I Scaled from Zero to a Million Store on Dukaan   web swe

x86 Assembly Guide   programming lowlvl

Operating System in 1000 Lines   os

How to Think About GPUs   gpu

Transformers from Scratch   ml llm

Large Language Model Optimization: Memory, Compute, and Inference Techniques   ml llm

Humans are not automatically strategic   psychology ai_safety

Ariel Rubinstein on Game Theory and Behavioral Economics   economics

The Continual Learning Problem   ml

The Metric Tensor: A Complete Guide With Examples   math

Startup Playbook by Sam Altman   startup

Link: https://playbook.samaltman.com/

[2025-10-25 Sat]

Fix Your Paper Reading Game   productivity

How to Catch Subtle RL Bugs Before They Catch You   ml rl

Advanced Matrix Multiplication Optimization on Modern Multi-Core Processors   lowlvl programming

Link: https://salykova.github.io/matmul-cpu

[2025-10-25 Sat]

Daily OS Explorations   os

Min-Max Math, ep. 01: What is Mathematics?   math

Transformers from Scratch   bib ml

Neural Networks, Manifolds and Topology   bib ml

Awesome Computer History   glossary cs

Awesome Sec Talks   glossary infosec

Security List   glossary infosec

Automation of Scientific Research CMU   course

Writing a better code with pytorch and einops   ml programming

The Science of Benchmaking   ml

Link: https://benchmarking.science/

[2025-12-04 Thu]

Modal GPU Glossary   gpu glossary ml

Link: https://modal.com/gpu-glossary

[2025-12-08 Mon]

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment   course linux

Link: https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

[2025-12-10 Wed]

What is an Invariant?   programming

Seminar of Effective Research Practices and Academic Culture   course research

Personal Data Infrastructure Map - beepb00p   selfdev

Link: https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html

[2025-12-26 Fri]

UNIX v4   unix

Link: http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/

[2026-01-09 Fri]

Embrace, Extend, and Finally Extinguish - Microsoft plays their hand   foss

On Neural Scaling and the Quanta Hypothesis   ml

Link: https://ericjmichaud.com/quanta/

[2026-01-15 Thu]

Structured Procrastination   productivity

Technical consulting handbook   professional

List of technical blogs   reading

On research careers in academia and industry   career

Abstract Algebra- Theory and Applications   math course

Link: http://abstract.ups.edu/aata/aata-toc.html

Online web based course.

[2026-02-02 Mon]

A Primer on Bézier Curves   math course

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