Stray observations, and marginalia.
These are fragments gathered along the way—moments marked, links worth noticing, and passing thoughts. Inclusion does NOT imply endorsement.⁂
Cormac McCarthy notes on writing for science:
gwern.net
UCLA digitized Hearst newsreels from 1929 to 1967
newsreels.net
Teen-agers in their bedrooms, before the age of selfies:
newyorker.com
Better late than never — iPad native Instagram app available
instagram.com
White paper: Why Language Models Hallucinate
openai.com
Not new, but worth not missing: "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory expands Claude for Enterprise use to empower scientists and researchers"
anthropic.com
OpenAI releases two open-weight models.
"The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks and can run on edge devices with just 16 GB of memory, making it ideal for on-device use cases, local inference, or rapid iteration without costly infrastructure"
openai.com
Google kills their link shortener
Another in a long line of services killed off by Google.
theverge.com
LLM Inference reference
bentoml.com
An individual created 184 billion Bitcoin one day in 2010
decrypt.co
Wide-Angle X-ray scattering dates Shroud of Turin to first century
https://doi.org/
Alexander the Great’s tunic identified in Greece
https://www.tandfonline.com/
M4 Pro faster than M2 Ultra. "…you can now purchase a Mac mini with a 14-core M4 Pro for $1,599 in the U.S. and get similar to faster peak performance than a Mac Studio with the 24-core M2 Ultra"
https://www.macrumors.com/
Some things from the 80s
https://twitter.com/
Talk by Mitch Jayne from the Dillards
https://www.youtube.com/
More Mitch Jayne
https://youtube.com/
20K words from S. Wolfram about how ChatGPT actually works
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/
Rich Mullins candid interview from 1994
https://www.youtube.com/