Aaron Pham

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• Reynolds number2 savers
• Making Eg-walker even faster4 savers
• azlen/initialis: Endless explorer for ornamental drop caps, illuminated lettering, and new typographic aesthetics. https://initialis.azlen.me ·1 savers
• Mythos Map2 savers
• The Humans Are Coming for A.I.’s Jobs in “We Were Here” | The New Yorker - YouTube3 savers
• my most valued possession1 savers
• The Sane Asylum - Colossus21 savers
• Moral strategies at different capability levels1 savers
• Anthropic S115 savers
• Collider - YouTube2 savers
• The Three Peaks World Record | Imo Boddy | 700km Ultra Running Documentary - YouTube1 savers
• 10x engineer (AI Psychosis) - YouTube1 savers
• metaphors1 savers
• Gazetteer1 savers
• Craft - Create Amazing Documents7 savers
• THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES THE GRAND OPENING OF THE CELESTE BARTOS FILM PRESERVATION CENTER1 savers
• [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by E. E.… | Poetry Magazine2 savers
• Nash equilibria in human relationships : r/slatestarcodex1 savers
• Jake Ward on X: "Models love reward hacking. Maybe we should just let them! In our new paper, we let models reward hack during RL but we dictate which parameters learn this behavior. When we disable these parameters for deployment, the model keeps its new capabilities but doesn't hack! https://t.co/ift3bM4VLr" / X1 savers
• Analogue10 savers
• Growing Neural Cellular Automata13 savers
• Bayer filter2 savers
• The CORE Performance Team Battles the Heat of Kona1 savers
• Exhibit 7 (Case 3:24-cv-05417-AMO, Dkt. 553-8)2 savers
• Swimming Notation - Understanding a swim training plan : r/Swimming1 savers
• Handwritten code | Katherine Yang1 savers
• Alignment & Succession: Morality Lives in the Human Individual4 savers
• John Hays1 savers
• Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan1 savers
• Kolakoski sequence1 savers
• Marshall McLuhan5 savers
• Thank you and Goodbye. PewDiePie1 savers
• Alignment & Succession: Toward a Future Sculpted by Human Wills5 savers
• They don't want you to watch the movie this way - YouTube1 savers
• 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 Fail22 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 shaders5 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 Writings26 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
• Superlogical5 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 DeepMind18 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 Interest17 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

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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 Writings

• Elise 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 Writings

• While 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 Writings

• Our 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 Writings

• she 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 Writings

• She 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 Writings

• Kimi 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 Intelligence

• 300g of carbs per hour.

  How Many Carbs Does Your Body ACTUALLY Use? | The Lab Test

• It 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 – Aresluna

• Machines for Conviviality

  Machines for Conviviality — Intempus

• The World Is a Malleable Place

  School Is Not Enough

• Agency 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 Enough

• Do children today have useful childhoods?

  School Is Not Enough

• My grandma used to say everything we do is yarn knit into our sweater

  No Effort is Wasted - YouTube

• Claude 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 Dreams

• This page collects resources about implementing regular expression search efficiently.

  Implementing Regular Expressions

• If 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 \ Anthropic

• This 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 nearer

• ppl 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" / X

• 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

  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" / X

• revealed 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 from

• I struggle to form opinions and never test them against reality

  Syllabus | Malaika Aiyar

• 2026-02-02 23:09 I am just paralyzed by happiness...

  A heart of fire

• A 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 provers

• Shut 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 Motion

• FLIP, 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 Motion

• Be bored, it’s good for the mind.

  2025: A life built from the days

• Here’s to taking steps to meet my wife in 2026

  2025: A life built from the days

• The 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 days

• I 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 days

• t 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 PROBABILITY

• Don't try your best. Win, or fail. There is no best.

  Trying to Try - LessWrong

• The 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 Mou

• all 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 Mou

• They’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 | Alexandria

• All 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 | Alexandria

• My 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 | Alexandria

• Taking an Internet Walk

  Taking an Internet Walk – Syllabus

• Your preferences are to hit the quality target with minimum effort.

  Half-assing it with everything you've got

• The 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 Like

• A relationship, notably, is not an algorithm. It is a gestalt.

  against narrative - by rayne fisher-quann

• People who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating truth.

  How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshi

• How 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 Forum

• I 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