Current reading list
https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n
Cryptoeconomics and such:
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qwLK9BZGG7kNLbcN3/vitalik-cryptoeconomics-and-x-risk-researchers-should-listen
- https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/intro-to-ethereum/
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nMNi86hgNjaNnh8iu/a-whirlwind-tour-of-ethereum-finance
- https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- Some fundamentals of mathematics of blockchain
Twitter list of high-signal content: https://x.com/i/lists/1854695454962803149
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://www.aisafety.com/landscape-map
- https://aideadlin.es/?sub=ML,AP,KR,NLP
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
- The OSSU Computer Science course seems like a good reference for teaching “the ropes”.
Productivity
PDF tools: PDFSam/PDFGear/FoxIt/PDF24/PDFArranger – haven’t really played with them enough.
Photo editing: Pinta. This is the perfect image editing app for 99.9% of users; it has the simplicity of MS Paint (without the bugginess) but the power of GIMP (at least as far as anything you will ever need). I’ve tried Krita, PaintPP, Gnome Drawing, none of them come close.
Video editing: capcut?
Diagrams: SVG? TikZ? Draw.io? Excalidraw? Mermaid? IDK haven’t figured out a good one yet.
yt-dlp
pandoc
ActivityWatch (vastly better than everything else in this category)
Zotero 7 with BetterBibTeX (to export specific folders to bib files and keep them updated automatically) + Zotmoov (to organize attachments into folders e.g. mirroring your categories). Zotero 7 is vastly faster and more intuitive to use than Zotero 6, and Zotmoov replaces Zotfile very well (there’s also Attanger, but its documentation is only in Chinese).
Big list: https://debarghyadas.com/writes/github/
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
Apple Vision
- https://github.com/freedmand/textra
- https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1639034553796018176
- https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-iphone-racks-building-an-internet-scale-meme-search-engine-Qzrz7V6T.html
- https://yasoob.me/posts/how-to-use-vision-framework-via-pyobjc/
Quick online tools
Fun