Reading

Articles

• Weatherizing Salem (link)
  
• The Goon Squad (link)
  
• We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack (link)
  
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (link)
  
• Laura Coombs Hills (September 23, 1943) | Willa Cather Archive (link)
  
• Computers that want things (link)
  
• Person on business from Porlock - Wikipedia (link)
  
• Stuart Jeffries · Human Spanner: Kant Come Alive (link)
  
• AI Is Making Online Dating Even Worse (link)
  
• Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference (link)
  
• An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms (link)
  
• My Hands in My Face (link)
  
• Artificial intelligence learns to reason (link)
  
• Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models (link)
  
• My Private Life (link)
  
• My Research Process: Key Mindsets - Truth-Seeking, Prioritisation, Moving Fast (link)
  
• What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap (link)
  
• Zero Tolerance (link)
  
• “Please Keep Caring.” What John McPhee Taught Generations of Writers and Journalists (link)
  
• William Jones (philologist) - Wikipedia (link)
  
• Dagwood Bumstead - Wikipedia (link)
  
• Shadow of a Doubt (link)
  
• The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction (link)
  
• The Strange Undeath of Middlebrow (link)
  
• Brokeback Mountain (link)
  
• List of old-growth forests - Wikipedia (link)
  
• Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose (link)
  
• A KVCache-centric Disaggregated Architecture for LLM Serving (link)
  
• CCQ: Convolutional Code for Extreme Low-bit Quantization in LLMs (link)
  
• Eat Poop You Cat | Issue 48 | n+1 | Rachel Ossip (link)
  
• ‘My sadness is not a burden’: author Yiyun Li on the suicide of both her sons | Fiction | The Guardian (link)
  
• An 'Anti-Woke' Literary Scene Growing in L.A. (link)
  
• Seven Types of Ambiguity - Wikipedia (link)
  
• Emergency by Denis Johnson (link)
  
• What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? | The New Yorker (link)
  
• New England Is China, by Eileen Chang (link)
  
• Real Men | The Point Magazine (link)
  
• The Death and Life of the Straight White Man’s Novel - The New York Times (link)
  
• open: In My Zombie Era (link)
  
• The physics of sailing | Physics Today | AIP Publishing (link)
  
• The Way We Live Now | The New Yorker (link)
  
• China’s dreamers and dropouts: ‘lying flat’ generation checks out in Dali (link)
  
• Home values spark "everyday" class of millionaires (link)
  
• Tegmark Group (link)
  
• Chris Dating Info -- colah's blog (link)
  
• Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks (link)
  
• Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey 2025: The 10 most liveable cities in the world (link)
  
• Not All Millennials (link)
  
• AI learns to reason (or does it?) (link)
  
• https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/model-collapse?r=9hfkx&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player (link)
  
• How Debt Ate Chicago (link)
  
• Controlled - The Drift (link)
  
• open: Would You Rather Have Married Young (link)
  
• The Evidence So Far: What Research Reveals About AI’s Real Impact on Jobs and Society | American Enterprise Institute - AEI (link)
  
• an essay for The Point (link)
  
• Encounters with Reality | The Point Magazine (link)
  
• Project Popcorn (link)
  
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23735 (link)
  
• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings (link)
  
• https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/698741038516404234/1337824001744965724/David_B._Zilberman_Giridhari_Lal_Pandit_editor_-_David_B._Zilberman__Selected_Essays_2023_Springer_-_libgen.li.pdf?ex=683540f1&is=6833ef71&hm= (link)
  
• The Reenchanted World, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Translated by Olivia Lasky, Damion Searls (link)
  
• Why We Think | Lil'Log (link)