Annie Zhou
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- Complex Systems | The Point Magazine1 savers
- Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question - CITP Blog1 savers
- Finding Person-Problem Fit - Compound Manual20 savers
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- Why I don't worry (as much) about big tech's depreciation schedule1 savers
- Making invisible understanding visible1 savers
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- Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputing1 savers
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- The Rise of the Traveling Third Space - by Patrick Kho1 savers
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- The Madeleine Excerpt From Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust | DailyGood1 savers
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- the right thing for you will not feel wrong all the time6 savers
- Familiarity and Belonging - by Simon Sarris9 savers
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- How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why61 savers
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Unlike the corresponding concept in psychology, it describes not our need for answers but our inability to access them.
Complex Systems | The Point Magazinethat plagued me, even try to love the questions—and perhaps then I would “gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Complex Systems | The Point MagazineWe continued to litigate strategies for evaluating AI, never answering the question: If we have never designed a test for the human mind that captures what it aspires to, why do we believe we can meaningfully measure AI systems, which are far more alien?
Complex Systems | The Point MagazineMy brain seems to comprehend the world by plucking vague images and urges out of a pile of vibes and flinging them up like rainbow confetti. Most days, it skitters around, muddling through associations. This works fine until I’m writing, and I’ll then force abstractions, like ill-fitting jeans, onto my scramble of impressions.
Complex Systems | The Point Magazine“we shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us”. When we invent powerful new external representations of concepts like the Fourier transform, that opens up a path to deeper understanding, and thereafter to the invention of still more powerful representations, in a kind of virtuous circle.
Making invisible understanding visibleDirection is more important than magnitude
How I've run major projects | benkuhn.netthey’re highly organized and great at staying laser focused on end goals
How I've run major projects | benkuhn.netget X training technique working over Y networking protocol at Z throughput
How I've run major projects | benkuhn.netbiggest open questions
How I've run major projects | benkuhn.netmultiple daily calls with my counterpart at our compute partner (9am and 6pm).
How I've run major projects | benkuhn.netWe discover one aspect of performance is unexpectedly poor We escalate the problem with our compute partner Compute partner staffs a large debugging effort
How I've run major projects | benkuhn.netit's a matter of finding specific jobs that contain a maximal number of things you're good at and a minimal number of things you don't want to do
Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputingIf you were good at writing code for Windows update, you'll probably be just fine at coordinating planned maintenances for supercomputers
Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputingjunior software engineers who were unwittingly thrown into the deep end of HPC straight out of college and were desperate to find their footing in both the technology and their careers overall
Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputingthey're all willing to spend significantly more than the HPC community for the same compute capability
Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputingEvery compute node has to be attached to the frontend cloud network in addition to a backend high-speed network like InfiniBand
Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputingbuilding a supercomputer in the cloud is just more expensive than putting a bunch of whitebox nodes into a traditional HPC datacenter
Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputingThe best solutions emerge after you’ve wandered through a landscape of problems, discovering hidden connections and rich intersections. Don’t erect premature fences around what the solution “should” be
How to make something greatThe best solutions emerge after you’ve wandered through a landscape of problems, discovering hidden connections and rich intersections. Don’t erect premature fences around what the solution “should” be
How to make something greatBut the question is, what are you building and why? If you really zoom
22. Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas That Infect - Jackson Dahleople are constantly searching for new ideas to uncover, but they also want to put them into action.
22. Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas That Infect - Jackson DahlNadia: I think some of my self-hatingness around ideas comes from straddling a bunch of different worlds. In the tech world, we tend to err more on the side of action, and academia errs more on the side of ideas. In tech, I sometimes feel like ideas are weirdly underappreciated, even though they're what fuels everything that people do.
22. Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas That Infect - Jackson DahlThere's always something where I crave something bigger than myself. I crave something that I want to lay down my own identity and my own life and resources for
22. Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas That Infect - Jackson Dahlwe have an infinite amount of dead knowledge
22. Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas That Infect - Jackson Dahlthere's a tension between legibility and illegibility. If you're too illegible, no one pays attention to you. If you're too legible, your ideas can feel watered down or overly obvious. I think of it as a sliding scale of when I want people to dig a little bit deeper
22. Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas That Infect - Jackson DahlRight now, I’m wearing J. Crew jeans and a plain t-shirt and a hoodie and Allbirds shoes, because I’m trying to conform.
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But WhySo, many times, the problems we solve using technology or new social institutions will resurface in different forms after the change. In many cases, what we think of as progress really just amplifies existing human nature—so progress solves the symptoms of certain problems, but not the root, which means they can resurface again and again
How Ken Liu Translates, and Why He Writes - Public BooksThese same people want to live in a place and consume it, but leave as soon as it becomes an imposition on them. They want to enjoy the fruits of someone else’s civic effort, but never apply their own. They want to retain optionality, and so forgo the real benefits of stable commitment.1
Marry Your City - by Daniel Golliher - Maximum New YorkMoral consumption, mediated by narratives, increases only our own sense of self-worth. Through these narratives, we refer not to a community that is to be improved, but only to our own egos
Rendering Me into We: A Review of The Crisis of Narration - Front Porch Republicstoryselling” creates only ephemeral communities organized around perpetual consumption, what he elsewhere terms “swarms.”
Rendering Me into We: A Review of The Crisis of Narration - Front Porch RepublicSo capital “N” narratives provide meaning, they orient us in some particular non-consumer direction in life, they close off some possibilities while prescribing others, and so on
Rendering Me into We: A Review of The Crisis of Narration - Front Porch Republicplace. This brilliant essay collection reminds us that place is not an abstract concept, but a concrete reality fundamental to what makes us human, and humane
Why Place Matters — The New AtlantisOne can avoid this bottleneck by using neuralese: passing an LLM’s residual stream (which consists of several-thousand-dimensional vectors) back to the early layers of the model, giving it a high-dimensional chain of thought, potentially transmitting over 1,000 times more information.
AI 2027sycophantic (i.e. it tells researchers what they want to hear instead of trying to tell them the truth)
AI 2027A strange loop occurs when a complex system creates the illusion of progress but always returns to its starting point. Hofstadter argues that our conscious sense of “self” emerges because we’re constantly referring back to our own perceptions; the part of us that perceives is also the part being perceived
The Yale Review | Jesse Damiani: “Is Life Online Real?”the real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology
The Yale Review | Jesse Damiani: “Is Life Online Real?”It’s a performance conducted by an individual but also the product of billions of human inputs.
The Yale Review | Jesse Damiani: “Is Life Online Real?”For this future to become an actual reality, AI needs to work at the OS level. It’s not meant to be an interface for a single tool, but an interface across tools. Kevin Kwok famously wrote that “productivity and collaboration shouldn’t be two separate workflows”. And
The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digitalWhy should I have to describe my desired action using natural language, when I could simply press a button or keyboard shortcut? Just pass me the goddamn butter.
The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digitalOr, perhaps it’s the city’s limitless size paired with its densely packed streets, which continue to yield surprises the more one wanders; the heady sense of human industry as soon as you step foot into Penn Station; the celebrated literary and artistic pedigree. It is, to me, all the things a city would be — warts and all — if one were to distill so many of the world’s population centers down to their essence, and use the concentrate to build something anew
A Tale of Two CitiesWe often describe our essays as data-driven “love letters” to particular topics. This story is our love letter to the places that we call home.
A Tale of Two Citiesbut I do think that poetry and science are deeply related in what they’re fundamentally about. I think that they are both at their core about a state of deep attentiveness
Featured Poet: Kaveh Akbar – The Indianapolis ReviewLike many writers I feel ambivalent about words, I know they don’t work, I know they aren’t it. I don’t in the least feel that everything is language. I have a sense that there has been language from the beginning, that it isn’t fundamentally an invention. These are contradictory positions but positions are just words.1
On the Wor(l)d as Collage, or Intertextuality – SyllabusWhat emerges is not just a crisis of verification, but a more profound retreat from unmediated experience. Technological systems don't merely offer verification; they provide a comprehensive architecture of avoidance. Where once we might have confronted uncertainty directly—learning through trial, error, and embodied experience—we now have elaborate mechanisms for circumventing discomfort.
Crisis of Confidence - by Kevin Bakerarchitecture of avoidance
Crisis of Confidence - by Kevin Bakerexive reach for technological verification has become a cognitive framework that actively reshapes what we consider judgment to
Crisis of Confidence - by Kevin BakerThe funny thing about loneliness and isolation, is that you rarely know that it's shared. Every story we read left an impression, and gifted us even more empathy for our peers.
about.waterworks.digitalMaintenance is about making something last.
Maintenance Is Sorely Needed In The Fight Against Global Warming“Maintenance has to be valued outside of austerity, and right now it’s unclear if our current economic system is capable of that.”
Maintenance Is Sorely Needed In The Fight Against Global WarmingThis penchant for wandering unearthed the seed of a truth within me: the path of my life going forward will follow no line or ladder. But how does one navigate an open field? And what if lose my bearings? I returned to my final year of undergrad with a sack full of questions in tow.
Dialects of Green - Joanne Lam