Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir

Current reading list

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:

Cryptoeconomics and such:

Twitter list of high-signal content: https://x.com/i/lists/1854695454962803149

Blogs

AI alignment meta

Software tips

Productivity

Stuff that might be relevant in life at some point

Tools

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

Apple Vision

Quick online tools

Fun

slopware

the following is slop and I will judge you for it: