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
Genuinely valuable wisdom
- Learn things with insight/have confidence & curiosity. Learning the “lay of the land” in depth seems critical to everything.
- Get your hands dirty with things.
- Learn the ropes/the ways of your world/canonical ways of doing things, seek high signal content.
- Do a lot of things.
- Be perfectionist in even bureaucratic details of getting your work to have attention. Do donkey work.
Things that have been found to result in useful thought patterns:
- setting deadlines
- setting immediate deadlines/timestamps — opposite of time-tracking
- NSDR
- Sometimes you go on Twitter because it feels like it’s one of 2 things you could do. Actually, it’s one of 11 things you could do. Look at your to-do.
- You should just do things, instead of sitting around deciding what to do
- You should do more donkey work.
- Cookie boxing: introducing even small amounts of friction in the path of a habit you want to avoid produces measurable results. The reverse is also true: remove friction from activities you want to do more.
- Not even a drop of time must flow into the past without being made useful to man
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/
- 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
- The OSSU Computer Science course seems like a good reference for teaching “the ropes”.
Productivity
PDF tools: PDFSam/PDFGear/FoxIt/[PDF24](tools.pdf24.org)/[PDFArranger](https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger)
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)
Need a better reference management solution tbh. Zotero is kinda slow. Org-mode?
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