Essays that don't yet have enough siblings to be grouped into a more descriptive category.
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Onward
The morning after retirement.
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My Participation in the METR AI Productivity Study
An experience report for my participation in METR's study "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity".
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Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better
Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.
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Learning Japanese Part-Time
After 6.5 years of studying Japanese, and only getting moderately far, I reflect on how to most effectively study a second language while only being able to spare an hour or two a day.
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ChatGPT Is Not a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Are LLMs just compressed representations of their training data, or something more? The "simulators" hypothesis proposes that they're much more like a human imagination.
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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source
A plea for DigitalOcean to stop making open source maintainers' lives miserable, once a year every year.
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Mathematical Consciousness
What if your mind is nothing more than evolving data—and what if the cosmos is nothing more than a static mathematical object?