I'm telling my kids this is Socrates and Plato www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScRL...

Really enjoyed this two part interview with @craigmod.com on the Tim Ferriss Show podcast. He talks about being adopted, walking, making books, working at the right scale, living in Japan and lots more. Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B87A... Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dP...

Episode 16 of my Audiolog podcast. Craig Mod on being adopted and Japan, Alan Alda on communication, Andrej Karpathy on learning and Boards of Canada on the PDP-1. audiolog.jamesking.io/2025-10-26/

The biologist's view of how flight works. Courtesy of Rory Maizels. #GenerativeBiology

Ted Chiang: "In the here and now, a philosophical question might be strictly theoretical, but in the world of a science fiction story, it could have practical consequences. That means there could be inhabitants of that world for whom the answer to that question is hugely important."

Love this. Switch Angel live-coding a trance track using strudel.cc. Favourite part is her narration that explains what's going on at the same time as sounding fantastic. New electronic music genre? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXC...

Episode 15 of my Audiolog podcast. Featuring clips from Acquired, Dwarkesh, Moneystuff, Gary's Economics and Jane Goodall. audiolog.jamesking.io/2025-10-11/

A decade after it was written, I find myself pulling out the @cingraham.bsky.social's gerrymandering explanation to help people understand why California’s Prop. 50 is so important to pass. wapo.st/3WfcjeB

Enjoyed this video from @tantacrul.bsky.social about the design and engineering of the new version of Audacity (open source audio software). Beautifully explained and produced. This link is to the last section, but whole video is great. youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?...

Latest episode of Acquired is great! It’s a recent history of Google’s successes and failures on AI, but covers most of the main players like OpenAI, Anthropic and others along the way. It’s 4 hours long, like all good podcasts should be. www.acquired.fm/episodes/goo...

Yesterday @aubreyclayton.bsky.social delivered a talk for the Ergodicity Economics seminar series. Aubrey shows how it is possible to derive the equations of probability without linking them to frequencies. A video of the talk is here: ergodicityeconomics.com/2025/10/01/6...

New episode of HARD DRUGS! AlphaFold, ProteinMPNN & other AI tools are transforming biology and drug design. But how do they work? What can’t they do? And can we use them to make a vaccine against Strep A for the very first time? In this episode, Jacob and I talk about hacking proteins with AI.

Just spotted that this was shared in the @observablehq.com newsletter. Nice!

I'm helping to organise this seminar series. The next seminar will be given by Aubrey Clayton, the author of Bernoulli's Fallacy. Come and join us: ergodicityeconomics.com/event/semina...

Observable Notebook Kit & Desktop 1.4 now support TypeScript cells, along with TypeScript for Node.js data loader cells. (Just type stripping, but greatly helps interoperability.)

New episode of my Audiolog: audiolog.jamesking.io/2025-09-10/

New blog post: jamesking.io/2025/09/10/i...

Big fan of @observablehq.com and since their preview release of Observable Notebooks 2.0 my team at Fora Health have integrated Notebook Kit into our app. Works really well so far. Quick demo ⬇️ screen.studio/share/TqvyfFbU

New blog post: Failing to reproduce Axelrod, 1980 Today I learned that a foundational result in game theory hasn’t been successfully reproduced, and not from lack of trying. jamesking.io/2025/09/02/f...

This thread is a really good short summary/review of the Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies.

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

It’s the Aquired podcast format applied to drug discovery. That’s a very good thing.

Excellent video on whether retinol is a scam — there are only few low quality RCTs, why would one still believe in it? — and it’s so good, talking about various incentives and the role of mechanistic knowledge. I’ll have to think about how to fit this into teaching!> m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Z5...

@mmtpodcast.bsky.social your intro to MMT at the start of the latest episode was excellent. Such a good distillation. 👏

An interview with @stephaniekelton.bsky.social about DOGE, Trump, crypto, tariffs, inflation, the collapse of the rule of law, and more. "We don't have two years" to wait for Democrats to rally, she says. "You won't be able to pick up the pieces." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...