Hello! This was an interesting piece. I found it via https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1v4zjfj/chinese_6yearold_girl_dies_after_receiving/ Zotero item: D2NU36AK
I’m listening to “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles. I feel chill. In the morning I did some work for my religion work. {{REDACTED}} After that I ate dinner, biked to the gym, photographed some geese, and then wrote my geese post + this daily update while intermittently scrolling X.
Meta: This is a lightly-edited, blog-ified version of this X thread. 1/8 This is a terrible goose picture because the geese are confined to the bottom right corner, but it’s an okay photo in sum. Too busy though, it will be much better with some cropping. 2/8 I like the symmetry in this photo. The two geese in the front are facing the same way and look almost the same, which gives it a nice surreality. I suspect it will look much better after cropping out the top part because right now the light grabs attention away from the geese. ...
Today I did some [[school_hrt3mss]] work. I finished a few assignments. It’s crunch time because the course ends on Friday. {{REDACTED}} I also did a bunch of blog stuff. I want to sleep now. The blog stuff + x kept me up till 1 again :^(. Top up DeepSeek API key Figure out how to x-post these posts to substack automagically.
*Meta: This is a dynamic post, which means that it will be updated often. You can navigate through previous versions of all posts here. If you are non-technical, ask your favourite LLM for help. This is a non-exhaustive list of tools I use: Python, JAX, PyTorch, Quantum Espresso, Cirq, Jupyter Notebook, Marimo Notebook, OpenAI Codex, Ubuntu, i3, GitHub, Zotero (you can see my library here). In the future I would like to expand this post. This post was inspired by this post by Gavin Leech and this post by Ti Guo. ...
This is a blog-ified version of this X thread: https://x.com/amitavkrshna/status/2079752248872050770, with some minor edits. Also, these photos were actually taken yesterday, 2026-07-20, but I chose to exercise my free will and post them today instead. 1/7 I don’t like this one because the camera isn’t straight and the geese are far away. It will be okay after some cropping + rotation 2/7 I like this one a little bit, but I think it could also be improved by cropping from the left such that the geese take up ~all of the frame. ...
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Today Tyler Cowen announced the 56th cohort of Emergent Ventures winners, one of whom was me!! I have money now! In addition, I received an email from {{REDACTED}} about being mentored, which seems cool! They’re a linguistics professor who dabbles in AI evaluation. One thing I noticed about their papers is that they have a much more prominently “academic” register. Reading (skimming) their paper was much more enjoyable than typical papers but also much more taxing. I felt the same way as I do when I’m listening to somebody who has a thick accent (particularly a thick French accent): I can understand the individual words, but the thought required to decipher the individual words expels from my working memory the knowledge of the previous words, making it much more difficult to comprehend a sentence. ...
Hello! Inspired by the neolab, I decided to read “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” by Roger WIlliams. Two things to start: there are SPOILERS AHEAD, and I would also like to repeat the author’s disclaimer from the book: This online novel contains strong language and extreme depictions of acts of sex and violence. Readers who are sensitive to such things should exercise discretion. This post will be family-friendly, but if you decide to read the original source, you should keep that in mind. In addition, I found some good suggestions on what parts to skip here (spoilers there), though I did not find this until after reading because I wanted to go in clean, and I’m not traumatized. ...
This is a test of details sections I’m testing this because I read a book I want to discuss while giving people a good spoiler warning and this seems like the best method