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1. Current Reading List
1.1. DONE Neural Interactive Proofs
1.4. TODO The Inner Alignment Problem
1.5. Thermodynamics
1.5.1. TODO Classical Thermodynamics and Economics by Yuxi Liu
1.5.2. Ortega papers:
1.5.2.2. TODO information-theoretic bounded rationality
1.5.2.3. TODO information, utility and bounded rationality
1.5.7. TODO AI Consciousness
2. Later readable things
2.1. Cryptoeconomics and such
2.1.2. Intro to ethereum
2.1.4. Bitcoin whitepaper
2.1.5. Bittensor whitepaper
3. John Wentworth’s study guide
3.1. DSA
3.2. Convex Optimization
3.3. DSGE and Recursive Macro
3.4. Games and Information
3.5. Control theory
3.6. Statistical mechanics
4. Lesswrong “The best …” seires
5. Good explanations
5.2. Blogs
- http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/
- http://bearlamp.com.au/
- https://ourbigbook.com/
- https://www.marginalia.nu/
- https://risingentropy.com/
- https://www.jeremykun.com/
- https://nosology.substack.com
- https://near.blog/
- Oliver Nash
- https://yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/
- https://parameterfree.com/lecture-notes-on-online-learning/
- https://jiha-kim.github.io/posts/introduction-to-stochastic-calculus/
5.3. online personalities I like
5.4. Youtube channels and educational cites
5.5. More technical blogs
6. Meta
6.1. AI alignment meta
6.2. Software tips
- https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/r1lfnq/can_you_convert_one_linux_distro_to_another/
- https://karl-voit.at/2015/12/26/reference-management-with-orgmode/
- https://wohanley.com/posts/org-setup/
- https://danielpaleka.com/what-i-use
- https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/5xh702/no_way_to_check_battery_cycles_on_linux_t450s/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/cveg5s/backing_up_windows_10_before_making_the_full/
- Git LFS stuff
- Git SSH configuration
- OSSU Computer Science course seems like a good reference for teaching “the ropes”.
- https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en (HN discussion)
6.3. Productivity
- https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/
- http://markforster.squarespace.com/autofocus-system/
- https://www.facebook.com/Xuenay/posts/10153513535798662
- https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful
- http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/approval-extraction-advertised-as-production/
- https://guzey.com/lifehacks/
- https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/
6.4. Stuff that might be relevant in life at some point
6.5. Courses and ML resources
6.6. Tools
- PDF tools: PDFSam/PDFGear/FoxIt/PDF24/PDFArranger
- Video editing: capcut?
- Diagrams: SVG? TikZ? Draw.io? Excalidraw? Mermaid? IDK haven’t figured out a good one yet.
- Big list: https://debarghyadas.com/writes/github/
6.6.1. OCR
- https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1786822000721207559
- https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
- https://mmocr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/trocr
- https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/blob/master/TrOCR/Evaluating_TrOCR_base_handwritten_on_the_IAM_test_set.ipynb
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966534
6.6.1.1. Apple Vision
6.6.2. Quick online tools
6.6.3. Fun
- Gender-guesser,
- Bad at entropy (explanation)
- Akinator
- Mathgen
- latex.vercel.app, a stylesheet for making websites look like latex
6.7. slopware
the following is slop and I will judge you for it:
- notion
- slack
- calendly
- google docs (ok this one’s actually useful for opening PDFs but I’ll still judge)
- appleslop
- “fukuyama”
- “acemoglu”
- FT/Economist