Current reading list
https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03300 — DeepseekMath
https://x.com/michaeljmcnair/status/1883702195113034121
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1883941452738355376
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.14443 DONE
https://bittensor.com/whitepaper
https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook/blob/develop/01what-is.asciidoc
https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/
https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n
Intelligence explosion microeconomics
See also John Wentworth’s study guide – of these, the things I don’t know (or don’t know properly enough) are:
- DSA
- Convex Optimization
- DSGE and Recursive Macro
- should read Games and Information even if I know it
- Control theory
- Statistical mechanics
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
- Bittensor whitepaper
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”.
- https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en (HN discussion)
Productivity
- 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/
Stuff that might be relevant in life at some point
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. Nvm, pinta misses some basic functions (like transforms of arbitrary regions) and has some really unexpected behaviours, bugs with history and text etc. I guess just use GIMP.
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
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