yeah, ok "coastal grandmother soft rock"

topical www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgy...

New post: a bit about AI, a bit about Hans Otto Storm’s “Eolithism and design,” a bit about bureaucratic vs poetic technologies, and a bit about coherence and Whitehead. realizable.substack.com/p/coherence-...

To distract myself from the increasingly disturbing reality, I’ll read this *long* (long!) essay by Peter Ludlow defending analytic philosophy against the charges of running cover for neoliberalism: www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-t...

It’s Negroni-on-the-deck o’clock!

Your regular reminder that Paul Ricoeur can do analytic philosophy better than most analytics.

rip dan simmons arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

alright, lfg

Can agents be alienated from the product of their labor? They have nothing to lose but their chains of thought!

capex opex brekekex

ALT swag

Not ready to hear the actual rickroll song at 7:30 in the am.

I’m in Toronto for this thing until Wednesday. Who’s around? algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/

The Birds

it’s happening again

Now to sit back, relax, and enjoy the *good* Epstein files — the complete discography of The Beatles.

This piece by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social offers a compelling positive leftist vision for AI that abandons the “AI ethics vs AI safety” dichotomy: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...

This piece by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social offers a compelling positive leftist vision for AI that abandons the “AI ethics vs AI safety” dichotomy: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...

Just the perfect mood and timing to be reading The Melancholy of Resistance.

For the record, "taking AI seriously" does not mean buying into AGI/alignment/x-risk nonsense. Leave that to Ezra Klein and Kevin Roose.

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

post an image you can hear

nice pitchfork.com/news/scritti...

This is still as relevant as ever: www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t...

More words on this: realizable.substack.com/p/hayeks-abs...

More words on this: realizable.substack.com/p/hayeks-abs...

tuck up your sleeves and loosen your talktapes, boyo

Nothing is real, everything is permitted.

I'm re-reading various papers surrounding the debate between computationalist and dynamicist approaches to cognition (e.g., Fodor vs. van Gelder), and it's a hot mess. For one, of course Turing machines and finite automata are dynamical systems! But also, the dynamical systems formalism in ... (1/2)

In today's lecture in my optimal control systems course, I will say the Latin phrase "ex ungue leonem." What will be the topic of the lecture?

I really find the language of “bets” grating. Silicon Valley technologists bet on scaling LLMs, Yann LeCun bets on world models, etc. This is neither science nor engineering, it’s all egos and ideology.

Trivial observation, but: in Saussurean terms, LLMs are models of parole, not models of langue.

The Faculty of Information at @utoronto.ca remembers Brian Cantwell Smith's remarkable life and contributions to philosophy and computation. He will be deeply missed: bit.ly/49roA74 We're honored to bring his final book project, "Computational Reflections," to readers in May: bit.ly/4sFDlux

it’s Burns night: O thou, my muse! guid auld Scotch drink! Whether thro' wimplin worms thou jink, Or, richly brown, ream owre the brink, In glorious faem, Inspire me, till I lisp an' wink, To sing thy name!

Having watched Megalopolis, I have just one question: can we at least have some *proper* decadence, not whatever ersatz crap is taking place now?

Some of the best works questioning the necessity of probabilistic models of uncertainty come from the world of mathematical finance: Fischer Black's paper on noise, Hans Föllmer, Vladimir Vovk. Machine learning should be more like mathematical finance.

unexpected find at an antiques shop

diamondback night tonight

Have seen this news (cims.nyu.edu/dynamic/news...) about NYU professor Robert Kohn. As good a time as any to share a piece of his work which I found cool: when studying deterministic control problems, one can still end up with second-order PDEs for their solution: math.nyu.edu/~kohn/papers....

When are impossibility proofs misleading? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/be-wary-of..., I discuss a common issue I see: proofs that are logically valid, but where the underlying assumptions are unjustified. I discuss ‘proofs’ that cognition cannot be tractably learned, and that LMs are 1/

From my fall course evaluations: "Go to the lectures, Maxim is a great orator and he covers relevant material while also making the lectures enjoyable to listen to." I'll take it.

From “Leopardi and the machine age” by Hilda L. Norman:

Solaris Stalker

the drukpa kagyu lineage of AI

vecnological singularity

plov time

I need to make a playlist consisting only of Boris Vian and Mose Allison.

Hayek’s analysis of distributed knowledge in markets is, conceptually, the same as the system counter-argument to Searle’s Chinese room. Helps to understand The Sensory Order better.

opening up the 2026 reading season

lol, lmao even src: Gian-Carlo Rota, "Husserl and the reform of logic"