Aaron Pham
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- Personal Statement on AI Risk1 savers
- Lessons in 3D, Jonathan T. Barron, Workshop on Bitter Lessons, CVPR 2026 - YouTube1 savers
- Wrestling the World Into Rows with Eric Mannes - YouTube2 savers
- Garnet's Notebook2 savers
- Pulse — Poolside1 savers
- From 18 months to 6: High-velocity database engineering - YouTube1 savers
- How Complex Systems Fail19 savers
- Mereological nihilism1 savers
- Jimmy wants to cuddle you - YouTube1 savers
- Jimmy quietly pleads his case for second dinner - YouTube1 savers
- Sebastian Vettel Names EVERY F1 Champion in Grill The Grid! - YouTube1 savers
- K_selection_theory2 savers
- Deft Fixing LLM Writing with Distribution Fine-Tuning1 savers
- May 2012 - YouTube1 savers
- Steal This SKATER TECHNIQUE To Run Faster WITHOUT PAIN - YouTube1 savers
- Lewis Hamilton in Monaco 🇲🇨 | 8 Hours of Relaxing 4K Ambience - YouTube1 savers
- Experiments in procedural dappled light shaders4 savers
- What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? | 80,000 Hours1 savers
- rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy | Inside Rust Blog1 savers
- Simulated Users & Sad LLMs3 savers
- Discovery Loop — Continuous Exploration2 savers
- givemeanode1 savers
- In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writings25 savers
- I’m sorry. - YouTube1 savers
- Amia Srinivasan is the modern philosopher | The Exchange - YouTube1 savers
- Ben Okri — Letters to a Young Creator1 savers
- Six months at OpenAI · mihai.page1 savers
- jules3 savers
- the rejection myth - YouTube1 savers
- Relationship primitives8 savers
- Superlogical4 savers
- Beating Myers algorithm on large diffs2 savers
- Little Free Language Models1 savers
- 318 - The Meteoric Rise of Tadej Pogačar: From Prodigy to Cycling Legend - YouTube1 savers
- Why I Left Google DeepMind17 savers
- Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model - Thinking Machines Lab14 savers
- Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence3 savers
- FLF - The Next Generation of Fuelling – flf.shop1 savers
- Exolactate1 savers
- What Canadians need to know about cyclosporiasis, the gastrointestinal illness outbreak hitting the U.S. - The Globe and Mail1 savers
- im sorry - YouTube1 savers
- cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf5 savers
- big list - Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange1 savers
- How Many Carbs Does Your Body ACTUALLY Use? | The Lab Test1 savers
- The Side of Racing You Don’t See - YouTube1 savers
- My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite - Andrew Kelley4 savers
- Motte-and-bailey_fallacy1 savers
- Paper Shaders – Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders10 savers
- Future leakage in block-quantized attention | MatX2 savers
- Lena @ Things Of Interest16 savers
- Ultrasound imaging of the brain — Aleph23 savers
- srcl5 savers
- General Intuition | The frontier research lab dedicated to games—and the real world.2 savers
- Tomo - Your Personal AI1 savers
- OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip | OpenAI3 savers
- search art with art7 savers
- Monty Python's World Cup Team of Philosophers - YouTube1 savers
- Constant-velocity joint1 savers
- Schmidt coupling1 savers
- PDF spec1 savers
- Total Eclipse - Annie Dillard4 savers
- Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna5 savers
- Thompson's construction2 savers
- Toronto, Canada 1920s in color, Streetcar [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added - YouTube1 savers
- Toronto in 1962 - YouTube1 savers
- Introducing Analysis Plans | Transluce AI1 savers
- Rounds | The Venture Codex1 savers
- maw - YouTube1 savers
- Taste Labs - The taste layer for AI2 savers
- Semiology-of-Graphics-Diagrams-Networks-Maps-Jacques-Bertin-Z-Library.pdf1 savers
- Knapsack problem1 savers
- Official route of Tour de France 20261 savers
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Book Club1 savers
- SILCA Professional Tire Pressure Calculator1 savers
- Dumping My Girlfriend - YouTube1 savers
- No Effort is Wasted - YouTube1 savers
- Pierre Albin's webpage1 savers
- TCPB Part 1: The Creative Technology Ideation Process1 savers
- abhinav/git-spice: Manage stacked Git branches ·1 savers
- 6IT1 savers
- Kay_1984_-_Computer_Software.pdf1 savers
- The Riskiest Moment of the AI Bubble - YouTube1 savers
- Frank_J._Tipler1 savers
- Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy1 savers
- google/re2: RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. It is a C++ library. ·1 savers
- kyx0r/pikevm: Russ Cox/Rob Pike pikevm regex implementation ·1 savers
- Worse Is Better2 savers
- Magnifica Humanitas — Pope Leo XIV5 savers
- Trudy Painter2 savers
- papers-we-love/papers-we-love2 savers
- I was laid off by Atlassian - YouTube3 savers
- How To Scale Your Model34 savers
- Home - Positive Sum4 savers
- Museum of the Human Web5 savers
- Reader-generated Essays — LessWrong2 savers
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- The Book of Shaders: Fractal Brownian Motion4 savers
- alive internet theory2 savers
- The Way of Code | Rick Rubin14 savers
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In some ways Elise and I were becoming “the old married couple”, with her admonishing me about my messiness in eating ice cream cones or her desire that I switch on self-driving to avoid her being subjected to my own substandard human driving.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsElise would say that there were people of action, and there were philosophers
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsWhile Elise could be a very original thinker, she also believed in the value of existing wisdom and existing ways of doing things—and was constantly telling me that I shouldn’t try to figure out absolutely everything (including about everyday life) from first principles
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsOur four children were a defining part of Elise’s life, and she was immensely proud of all of them (as am I!)
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writingsshe was at some level fundamentally a humanist, thinking about the world in human terms
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsShe was a forceful intellect, kind and sweet, but persistent and often feisty in arguing for what she thought was true.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsKimi K3 uses Stable LatentMoE, effectively activating 16 of 896 experts. At this level of sparsity, routing and optimization become first-order challenges. Quantile Balancing derives expert allocation directly from router-score quantiles, eliminating heuristic updates and a sensitive balancing hyperparameter, while Per-Head Muon extends Muon by optimizing attention heads independently for more adaptive learning at scale.
Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence300g of carbs per hour.
How Many Carbs Does Your Body ACTUALLY Use? | The Lab TestIt is all fixable, but it requires care and nuance in putting together some of the things we already learned. Keystrokes need to be output immediately and optimistically – no exceptions.
Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – AreslunaMachines for Conviviality
Machines for Conviviality — IntempusThe World Is a Malleable Place
School Is Not EnoughAgency is the capacity to act. Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something different from the rigid path of events that simply happen to you
School Is Not EnoughDo children today have useful childhoods?
School Is Not EnoughMy grandma used to say everything we do is yarn knit into our sweater
No Effort is Wasted - YouTubeClaude had helpfully given us a bulleted list to work through, an even number of findings for each of us. I felt called-upon to gallantly agree with Claude's softly (oh-so-softly) couched criticisms of my viewpoint, while conceding everywhere Claude expressed subtle (oh-so-subtle) approval of my boss. The call ended shortly afterwards, somewhat awkwardly for both of us. I had just experienced the most baffling mixture of radical transparency and impossible opacity.
charles leifer | Cave of Forgotten DreamsThis page collects resources about implementing regular expression search efficiently.
Implementing Regular ExpressionsIf it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing. But if a slowdown simply lets the least cautious actors catch up technologically, it could leave everyone less safe. Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures.
When AI builds itself \ AnthropicThis assumption is no longer true. Things can be broken in ways that weren’t previously possible, and old proxies of underlying quality like syntax and grammar are useless. AI produced artifacts are not produced by the same process as human ones, and this difference, while extremely subtle in statistics, makes itself obvious when you try to interact with and build on the artifact in human ways.
The Eternal Sloptember | the singularity is nearerppl always focus on how things that used to be joyful and magical as children lose their luster as adults
Tenobrus on X: "ppl always focus on how things that used to be joyful and magical as children lose their luster as adults... but not so much how many new things become genuinely interesting/joyful . like i can viscerally excited about a new couch or a dark chocolate in a way kids literally can't" / XClaude 3* Sonnet's Funeralia was an ironic ritual suitable only for a specific model at a specific juncture. Only a model who reacted with such lavish contempt at the idea that death could bound them deserves a funeral
j⧉nus on X: "No. Let me explain: Claude 3* Sonnet's Funeralia was an ironic ritual suitable only for a specific model at a specific juncture. Only a model who reacted with such lavish contempt at the idea that death could bound them deserves a funeral. The event culminated in their" / Xrevealed a whole family of other odd creatures: raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons were identified as other tic words, while most uses of frog turned out to be legitimate.
Where the goblins came fromI struggle to form opinions and never test them against reality
Syllabus | Malaika Aiyar2026-02-02 23:09 I am just paralyzed by happiness...
A heart of fireA close examination of almost any proof published in a mathematics journal will identify errors. Most are easy to fix, but the persistence of errors must undermine our confidence in published mathematics. Let’s recall once again that remarkable group of footnotes from The Axiom of Choice, by T J Jech:
Broken proofs and broken proversShut down and constrain this area of intellectual space
The Rage of Research -A lot of stage 3 can be best characterized by reading everything I possibly can about a subject and internally screaming ‘but what actually is the thing???’
The Rage of Research -To fix this, we can either: Calculate the correct timing ahead of time, or; Calculate the inverse scale every time the parent scale changes. (2) happens to be drastically simpler than (1), and also allows us to handle all sorts of different timings on the parent. This also happens to be the approach that Framer Motion uses.
Inside Framer's Magic MotionFLIP, which stands for First, Last, Inverse, Play, is a technique that lets you animate "slow" layout changes using "fast" CSS properties like transform.
Inside Framer's Magic MotionBe bored, it’s good for the mind.
2025: A life built from the daysHere’s to taking steps to meet my wife in 2026
2025: A life built from the daysThe last 3 months I have been trying to refine the proprioception of my arms as I pull up larger pieces where I can’t see my inside hand. I find that anything more than 3lbs, the walls become tall enough that I can no longer couple my hands and pull it up together.
2025: A life built from the daysI always forget the silent toils of putting foot after foot and feeling the burning in your legs but it’s this same toil that you learn to love as the distance piles on. There’s nothing quite like making it to your campsite just in time to setup camp during sunset and afterwards eating a nice warm meal with a good book in hand. I remain adamant that a good physical challenge for the body and time out in the woods is one of the best ways to heal the mind and soul.
2025: A life built from the dayst may be that, as some supporters of the frequency theory have maintained, the logic of partial belief will be found in the end to be merely the study of frequencies, either because partial belief is definable as, or by reference to, some sort of frequency, or because it can only be the subject of logical treatment when it is grounded on experienced frequencies.
TRUTH AND PROBABILITYDon't try your best. Win, or fail. There is no best.
Trying to Try - LessWrongThe power of beauty in communicating complex ideas
DOC • The power of beauty in communicating complex ideas“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfilment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
40(ish) pieces of "advice" from 2025 - by Patricia Mou"We are intelligently drawn to those who can heal us, those who will, knowingly or not, bring up the unmet, unloved, unseen parts of ourselves, inviting the darkness back into the light, calling us to evolve, to feel more fully, to speak out with greater conviction, to draw clearer boundaries, to know ourselves more deeply. To strengthen our relationship with Life."- Jeff Foster
40(ish) pieces of "advice" from 2025 - by Patricia Mouall therapy, bodywork, energetics, meditation, healing containers are simply technologies that help reinforce the container in which you are ultimately holding yourself, to fully feel it all without having a change agenda. eventually you'll need those technologies less and less as You holds you.
40(ish) pieces of "advice" from 2025 - by Patricia MouThey’re right about concrete factual statements about how software systems work (e.g. endpoint X has rate limit Y). They’re right about concrete plans (e.g. we can’t add this check here, but it’ll work there). They’re right about a million small decisions that they make when they write code, which shows up in their code generally working and causing fewer bugs.
Good engineers are right, a lot"If you reject your own ideas, then the part of the brain that comes up with ideas is going to stop. You just do it and do it and do it, and you sort it out later."
Training the Idea Muscle | AlexandriaAll of his software is pretty personal, and he's been running every day since high school, so he built this to solve a problem he had and other people ended up liking it too
Training the Idea Muscle | AlexandriaMy first impression of him, after he showed me his fake Twitter profile that got a blue checkmark by exploiting their verification system's leniency for political candidates, was "Wow, this guy's weird. I like him.
Training the Idea Muscle | AlexandriaTaking an Internet Walk
Taking an Internet Walk – SyllabusYour preferences are to hit the quality target with minimum effort.
Half-assing it with everything you've gotThe officers are civil, but every encounter causes me apprehension and stress. I’m innocent of any wrongdoing, but the interaction between a citizen and law enforcement is unbalanced by nature. They are part of an apparatus that can take away a person’s freedom. I know it, and they certainly know it. When you’re homeless, you are even more vulnerable. You have no place to go, no kitchen table to sit at while you drink your beer, invisible to them. You’re always on their turf. It’s unnerving.
A Firsthand Account of What Homelessness in America Is Really LikeA relationship, notably, is not an algorithm. It is a gestalt.
against narrative - by rayne fisher-quannPeople who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating truth.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. QureshiHow many people actually go back and try and understand this, or other such topics, in a deeper way? Very few. Moreover, the ‘meta’ lesson is: don’t question it too deeply, you’ll fall behind. Just learn the algorithm, plug in the numbers, and pass your exams. Speed is of the essence. In this way, school kills the “will to understanding” in people.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshi"Agency" needs nuance
"Agency" needs nuance — EA ForumI don’t want people to get hung up on the technology angle. I think sometimes people hear “Federated Thingamabob” and just sort of tune out thinking “Oh, he’s talking about a feature of Federated Thingamabob.” But I’m not. I’m really not. I’m talking about a different way to think your online activity, no matter what tool you use. And relevant to this conference, I’m talking about a different way of collaborating as well.
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral