Malaika Aiyar
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- Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile49 savers
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- THE MAP OF ATTRACTION - by Arianna - Schrödinger's Box1 savers
- About — The Printing Historical Society1 savers
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however, only happens once you’ve spent many afternoons reading.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileChair Alexandra Franklin
About — The Printing Historical Societyon any given sunday, i can write 1-2 blog posts off the bat, and i can read research papers towards one specific blog post — or i can work on some research problem where i probably won’t have anything to show for it at the end of the day, but might if i put 10-20 days in like that.
academia & rationality (pt. 1) - by Lydia Nottingham3. Increase your surface area for serendipity
Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic — LessWrongWhy is this hard? And, what can I do about that?
"What's hard about this? What can I do about that?" — LessWrongOne good time is "when you are first starting a project, or planning your day/week", so you just skip ahead past a lot of meandering unstrategic false starts on the wrong problem.
"What's my goal?" — LessWrongSteve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind — But what he really sold us was a train for the mind, which goes only between where rails and stations have been laid down by armies of laborers.
XXIIVV — stacksmart is inherently contrary to a single purpose tool, and thus incompatible with dependable solutions.
XXIIVV — lastingOptimizing toward the need for less revenue has yielded much better results than optimizing toward the generation of more.
XXIIVV — aestheticsNotes on focus and purpose.
XXIIVV — aestheticsmalaikaaiyar.me 16 Malaika Aiyar added 13/11/2025, 18:29:11
smallwebdining alone by choice, putting friendship above romance, bringing a friend to a formal event or attending alone, cohabiting with friends, or not searching for romance
Amatonormativity – Elizabeth Brakecreates barriers to making other kinds of relationships – friendships, asexual romances, some kinds of polyamory – central to one’s life
Amatonormativity – Elizabeth BrakeEquality holds if and only if 𝑥 1 = 𝑥 2 = ⋯ = 𝑥 𝑛 or 𝜑 is linear on a domain containing 𝑥 1 , 𝑥 2 , ⋯ , 𝑥 𝑛
Jensen's inequality - WikipediaAnd, rather than always pushing things in the direction of connection, I resolved to follow my conversational partner’s lead. Someone wants to have a four-hour bonding conversation at this house party? Sure, let’s do it. Someone wants to say “let’s get it” and literally nothing more before we spar in jiu-jitsu class?
My six stages of learning to be a socially normal persona real description of how your subjectivity is very different when you’re uncomfortable with emotion, and living behind the sensory filter created by a rigid self-concept.
My six stages of learning to be a socially normal personWhen I avoid running an experiment, some mixture of {X₁: dispositional inertia⁴, X₂: intrinsic-cost aversion, X₃: opportunity-cost pressure⁵} is doing the work.
The cost of becoming good - by Lydia Nottingham - pronotreheavier burden of evaluation
The cost of becoming good - by Lydia Nottingham - pronotre2a. messages becoming documents
lele's portfolioHumans, however, do not understand the world as a grid of pixels, but rather develop abstract concepts to represent what we see. From a young age, we develop the ability to communicate what we see by drawing on a piece of paper with a pencil. In this way we learn to express a sequential, vector representation of an image as a short sequence of strokes.
Teaching Machines to Draw | 大トロI sometimes wonder whether we are friends, but I know we are collaborators. Friendship and collaboration are different paths to understanding, which I think of as the crown jewel of the trio.
Why music? - by Andrew Wu - flights of fantasyPoetry tells the story of a barren world. A spark flickers, for a moment, then is snuffed out. I understand it now, I think. I have lived within it for almost a year.
Why music? - by Andrew Wu - flights of fantasyI’m touched. Perhaps there is something only I can say.
Why music? - by Andrew Wu - flights of fantasyI like music more than math, but I always make friends at math camps, with their culture of collaboration, and never at music camps.
Why music? - by Andrew Wu - flights of fantasyNasal spray (corticosteroids).
Things I hated at first but now like and also things you should just tryMost people who start lifting stop lifting because it is painful and doesn’t work for them in the first week of trying.
Things I hated at first but now like and also things you should just tryBasically any piece of clothing. The fraction of times I throw out a piece of clothing because I stopped liking it after I wore it 2-3 times is close to zero.
Things I hated at first but now like and also things you should just tryOpen-source life? Livestream / record 95% of day?
The Plan (Now-June 2027) - by Lydia Nottingham - pronotrean airbnb for rentals
an airbnb for rentalsSaffron pasta with chipotle shallots and pickled chillies
Yotam Ottolenghi’s fusion recipes | Food | The Guardian‘Caponata’ with silken tofu (pictured above)
Yotam Ottolenghi’s fusion recipes | Food | The Guardianwhen everyone’s dedicated to projects they care about year-round,
Be selectively decorrelated - by Lydia NottinghamI wear boots every day. If I buy trainers / sandals and keep them by the door, I’m going to wear those more and more. So I don’t.
Be selectively decorrelated - by Lydia NottinghamBut I want my lazy posts to be paper summaries / ones through which I learn, not yapping.
Be selectively decorrelated - by Lydia NottinghamJoin inaugural cohorts
Be selectively decorrelated - by Lydia NottinghamI believe friendship “is the greatest of worldly goods” and I’m interested in creating and studying spaces that support human flourishing.
HomeIt’s very symbolic & powerful when you get to retire columns because you don’t need them anymore
Open-source your life in a closed groupLovász extension[edit]
Submodular set function - WikipediaA combinatorial algorithm is defined as a method that automatically selects decision variables to optimize a specific output set, focusing on minimizing the number of subsystems to be solved simultaneously while accommodating functional constraints.
Combinatorial Algorithm - an overview | ScienceDirect TopicsMinimizing the difference between two submodular functions[26] is not only NP hard, but also inapproximable.[27]
Submodular set function - Wikipedianobby designer word for "the design of the current site"
colophonThe result of a depth-first search of a graph can be conveniently described in terms of a spanning tree of the vertices reached during the search. Based on this spanning tree, the edges of the original graph can be divided into three classes: forward edges, which point from a node of the tree to one of its descendants, back edges, which point from a node to one of its ancestors, and cross edges, which do neither. Sometimes tree edges, edges which belong to the spanning tree itself, are classified separately from forward edges. If the original graph is undirected then all of its edges are tree …
Depth-first search - WikipediaCPA will facilitate efficient experimental design and hypothesis generation by enabling in silico response prediction at the single‐cell level and thus accelerate therapeutic applications using single‐cell technologies.
Predicting cellular responses to complex perturbations in high‐throughput screens | Molecular Systems BiologyConstructing a GI manifold reveals biological processes driving GIs
Exploring genetic interaction manifolds constructed from rich single-cell phenotypes | Scienceperturbations enables more specificity, efficiency and ease of use
Perturb-seqcouples high-throughput screening with complex phenotypic outputs
Perturb-seqThe Perturb-seq protocol uses CRISPR technology to inactivate specific genes and DNA barcoding of each guide RNA to allow for all perturbations to be pooled together and later deconvoluted, with assignment of each phenotype to a specific guide RNA
Perturb-seqwe therefore effectively map out a surface—a manifold in mathematical terminology—that describes the transcriptional states that a cell can occupy upon perturbation (Fig. 1A).
Exploring genetic interaction manifolds constructed from rich single-cell phenotypes | Sciencesingle cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)
Perturb-seqperturbation response prediction
scGPT: toward building a foundation model for single-cell multi-omics using generative AI | Nature Methods