It feels like magic. Naomi Bashkansky left OpenAI to join Conduit, which is building non-invasive thought-to-text models and imagining what day-to-day work might look like once your brain can talk to your tools. ~ learn more
Gwern goes public. “I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel Inc and bring GAs to life.” The pitch is that big labs “structurally cannot build agents loyal to an individual user” because incentives will eventually […]
Why Brandon Johnson’s school board is going broke on purpose. “You have to create the crisis by which the boss…the government can no longer ignore you,” CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said, and the piece argues that logic is now […]
Mario meets Pareto. “Between you and me, if you want to win, never allow Koopa to sit in your kart!” The article uses Mario Kart 8 to explain the Pareto frontier: filter out builds that are strictly worse on every […]
Beard transplant review. “The procedure cost around $10,000, which is obviously a lot of money. But for me, it was worth every cent.” One guy explains how a beard transplant changed the way he’s viewed (or at least the way […]
RecipeTables. “A prep-table notation invented by Michael Chu at Cooking for Engineers: ingredients down the left, each step a merged cell spanning exactly what it combines. The whole recipe reads in one look — no scrolling back and forth between […]
NearbyWiki. “Wikipedia places nearby” is a map that shows you interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. ~ learn more
NearbyWiki. “Wikipedia places nearby” is a map that shows you interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. ~ learn more
The man behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick. This guy’s story is absolutely incredible. Could not recommend it more. “Zelnick had written memos for Carl Icahn twice saying stay away. Then Icahn told him to read the bylaws.” ~ […]
Sit with not-knowing. “The faster [the students] go, the fewer the opportunities for hesitation, judgment, or uncertainty.” Gert Biesta argues schools should protect that slow, resistant space, especially now that AI can rush students to a polished answer before they […]