Maxim Raginsky
@mraginsky.bsky.social
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web:
http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack:
https://realizable.substack.com
opening up the 2026 reading season
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lol, lmao even src: Gian-Carlo Rota, "Husserl and the reform of logic"
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My first foray into systems biology -- this work was led by Boya Hou, a postdoctoral researcher at UIUC, now on the academic job market. She presented an early version of these results at the
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MathBio Convergence Conference in August of 2025.
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This is primarily why I left X: couldnât stand the âvibes.â
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wut
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Vincent Carchidi
3 days ago
Some people question whether misalignment in LLMs results from deeper characteristics, like intentionality or consciousness. Others use this possibility as a bludgeon. I wrote about this to get the thoughts out of my head and move on to something else.
vincentcarchidi.substack.com/p/against-fa...
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Against False Indulgences in LLM Alignment
Unnecessary moral concern, and the false indulgences that drive it.
https://vincentcarchidi.substack.com/p/against-false-indulgences-in-llm
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The final post of 2025, where I propose the "paradox of highly optimized tolerance" (with nods to Carlson-Doyle and to Popper) as a frame for thinking about the impact of AI. Thank you all for reading, subscribing, and commenting! Happy New Year!
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The Paradox of Highly Optimized Tolerance
There really is no antimemetics division.
https://realizable.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-highly-optimized-tolerance
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Some thoughts on what Hermann Weyl's dialectic of the infinite in science and mathematics has to say about the age of AI:
realizable.substack.com/p/games-with...
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Games Without Frontiers
Hermann Weyl's dialectic of the infinite in the age of AI.
https://realizable.substack.com/p/games-without-frontiers
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magret de canard, pommes de terre sarladaises, good burgundy
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books I read in 2025 (no ratings, no notes) 1. Brian Evenson, âGood Night, Sleep Tightâ 2. John Crowley, âFlint and Mirrorâ 3. Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur, âWhat Makes Us Think?â 4. Deborah Modrak, âAristotle: The Power of Perceptionâ 5. Keiji Nishitani, âThe Self-Overcoming of Nihilismâ
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Swedish cardamom bun time
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Smile Politely
16 days ago
Here's the delicious Chinese food Wells ordered at Golden Harbor and Dim Sum House.
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What I ate with The New York Times' Pete Wells at Golden Harbor and Dim Sum House - Food & Drink
Last month, The New York Times writer Pete Wells came to town to explore Champaign-Urbanaâs Chinese food scene. Wells might be best known as NYTâs longtime, well-respected (and sometimes feared) food ...
https://www.smilepolitely.com/food-drink/what-i-ate-with-the-new-york-times-pete-wells-at-golden-harbor-and-dim-sum-house/
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My grandma would take leftover latkes and braise them with beef the next day.
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here we go
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Pete Wolfendale
30 days ago
The inevitable has happened. I've started a substack. The first post is now live, and its a longform review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines that uses the opportunity to say some things about inferentialism, computation, and LLMs:
deontologistics.substack.com/p/computatio...
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Computation and its Connotations
A Review of Language Machines by Leif Weatherby
https://deontologistics.substack.com/p/computation-and-its-connotations
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Paper accepted to ALT 2026! (
algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/
)
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Welcome to the Intellectual Dark Roast Web, Seva!
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Woohoo, crossed 1000 subscribers on this thing!
realizable.substack.com
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The Art of the Realizable | Maxim Raginsky | Substack
Intermittent musings on the philosophy, theory, and practice of engineering, primarily in the context of machine learning, automatic control, and cybernetics. Click to read The Art of the Realizable, ...
https://realizable.substack.com/
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Where Iâll be next week:
conferences.cirm-math.fr/3346.html
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3346 - conferences.cirm-math.fr
MULTIYEAR PROGRAM CONFERENCE Meeting in Mathematical Statistics Rencontres de Statistique MathĂ©matique Statistical thinking in the age of AI: decision-making and reliability 15 â 19 December 2025 Sci...
https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/3346.html
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back at my favorite coffee place in Paris: Araku Coffee
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One of the dishes on this list is from a Chinese restaurant right here in Champaign!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/d...
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The 23 Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate Across the U.S. in 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/dining/best-dishes-america.html
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From J. Carlson and J. Doyle, "Highly optimized tolerance: A mechanism for power laws in designed systems" (1999). Today's salient example would be AI systems, but all the same points stand.
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
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look at these tall bois
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Winter Old Fashioned 2oz rye .5oz Ancho Reyes liqueur .5oz cinnamon simple syrup angostura and chocolate bitters garnish with orange twist and rosemary
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so I tied an onion to my belt etc etc
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PSA: "Geometry, Topology, and Control System Design," published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. It is edited by my colleague Ali Belabbas and is dedicated to the memory of Roger W. Brockett, a pioneer of modern geometric and nonlinear control.
www.aimsciences.org/book/AM/volu...
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American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
https://www.aimsciences.org/book/AM/volume/59
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Smoked turkey carcass and leftovers about to turn into delicious stock, per the recipe from
@hels.bsky.social
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strong floor, no ceiling
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Right before I left Twitter, technical discussions about AI were already beginning to collapse into Ilya/Sutton/Karpathy/⊠exegesis and obligatory mentions of information theory, thermodynamics, cybernetics, and Kolmogorov complexity with all the sophistication of a LW post. Itâs happening here now.
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post-Thanksgiving cocktail and mocktail mise en place
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Introduce yourself with five concerts youâve seen The Magnetic Fields The Legendary Pink Dots Leonard Cohen Thom Yorke Stereolab
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Love this tune. Itâs like Edith Piaf meets Amy Winehouse, with Django Reinhardt and StĂ©phane Grappelli accompanying.
youtu.be/5-RY4AxfrRU?...
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ZAZ - Ni oui ni non
YouTube video by rrijecanka
https://youtu.be/5-RY4AxfrRU?si=lZnoCVf_l-Ds24cf
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itâs go time
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I was not aware of this recently found link between descriptive set theory and distributed algorithms on graphs. Neat!
www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
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A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science | Quanta Magazine
Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, theyâve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science-20251121/
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itâs cocktailpoasting time! Cranberry Negroni 1oz gin 1oz Campari 3/4oz Martini & Rossi Bitter Aperitivo 1/4oz cranberry juice two dashes of orange bitters garnish with orange twist and cranberries
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Lynn Chiu
about 2 months ago
For this occasion, I wrote an article for the
#Rudolphina
research magazine on Riedl's legacy at the University. "The endless pursuit of life's hidden order"
rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel...
#evobio
#philbio
#cogsci
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Rupert Riedl's intellectual legacy at the University of Vienna
An adventurer, a biologist, a maverick and philosopher. One hundred years after Rupert Riedl's birth, biologists at the University of Vienna reflect on how his systems theory of life contributed to ev...
https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intellectual-legacy-of-rupert-riedl-at-the-university-of-vienna
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So, on Monday I gave a guest lecture in my daughterâs science class about control systems and homeostasis. Have you ever tried explaining feedback and PID control to a bunch of 6th-graders without using a single equation?
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Is it wrong that I now want to add Sfizietto Calabro to everything?
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approved
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From âThe Open Worldâ by Hermann Weyl:
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uzumaki hours up here
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of âawakeningâ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/spiralist-cult-ai-chatbot-1235463175/
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Good, cheery reading to close out the year:
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Martin McDonagh should adapt âWaiting for Godot,â but make it Irish.
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Simplest recipe ever, and a big hit with family: buy a basic olive oil focaccia, top with sliced mozzarella di bufala, grated asiago, fried zucchini slices, thinly sliced red onions, oregano. Bake at 350 for 10 min, then finish off by broiling at 500 for 2 minutes.
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afternoon, yâall
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One of the trick-or-treating kids tonight was dressed as a pair of cards, six and seven of diamonds. Iykyk.
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Daveâs Hot Chicken is basically System of a Down of fried chicken joints.
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Next year Iâll go as Big Yud (wear a sequined fedora and a tshirt that says âIf anyone builds it, everyone will dieâ).
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đ¶ average American, average American average American hates median American they have a fight, average wins average American đ¶
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