Claude is really doing some thinking for me

TIL

I love their films but A24 is simply an impractically small paper size

Since upgrading to macos Tahoe my spotlight won't find any files anymore? Anyone else having this problem?

when you are young life is like a call option

Self avoiding random walk

These are the numbers for 2025

Does east Asia have cheap rent or expensive housing?

Made some pretty pictures

We should build a GAN for RL where the generator tries to generate problems that the solver will solve with a 50% chance.

Venting to Claude about interview prep is great!

This is a very good post: www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3gp8t...

Value Drift Rules Everything Around Me

I made a math nooki nooki.me/c/math

Evidence Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling 🧵 Here's a thread about my latest post on AI scaling … 1/14 www.tobyord.com/writing/most...

n things can be true at once

before I deleted twitter I archived all my tweets, and honestly just reading my archived tweets is the best twitter

I wanna see that claude catan game

Great article on how food banks became more efficient by implementing market mechanisms: www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...

Literally me

TIL that the asymptotically unbiased estimator produced by MCMC can be turned into an unbiased estimator using only a *finite* number of iterations! The trick is v neat: Turn an infinite limit into a telescoping sum, then arrange to have all terms after some step t cancel out.

Has anyone thought about how crypto currencies and optimal currency areas interact?

This is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOj...

Absence of evidence IS evidence of absence! Where it is important to clarify that evidence =/= proof!

I'm surprised people aren't more worried about value drift. Either people don't care about their values or they underestimate value drift!

jbhuang0604.github.io The CV of failures is the coolest thing I've ever seen!

Culture is grown not constructed

The Bay Area parties series is so good

What do we think the secret sauce is?

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Wow

a certain subclass of AI research like prompt and context engineering is just engineers rediscovering mgmt skills

One man's rage-bait is another man's dopamine.

Hank Green continues to be the best person at creating good models for the modern information environment:

Claude having an identity crisis while operating a vending machine is so 2025

How good is insect memory

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Let me say it this way: the art of rhetoric isn't lost, but it is not sufficiently powerful in the age of short form video. We need new rhetoric tech.

I want bsky, but with separate like and agree/disagree buttons

I love this timeline

Crazy that the "DeepSeek" moment was only like 6 months ago!

I have found it helpful with recent gov controversies to google "[thing in question] before:2024-12-31", to help me understand the prevailing view before this admin.