1: Figgie — “Figgie is a card game that was invented at Jane Street in 2013. It was designed to simulate open-outcry commodities trading.”
3: Introduction to Lean — AI-led progress in research-edge mathematics… when?
4: You and Your Research — h/t Brie Wolfson
5: Mysterium (Scriabin) - Wikipedia “Scriabin intended the performance to be in the foothills of the Himalayas in India, a week-long event that would be followed by the end of the world and the transformation of the human race into “nobler beings""
6: Announcing the Center for Land Economics “The Center for Land Economics is a new non profit think tank dedicated to the mission of solving the housing crisis with Georgist principles and policy, especially LVT.”
7: Are Government Organizations Immortal? h/t Marc Dunkelman (who has a new book “Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress — and How to Bring it Back”)
8: ClaudePlaysPokemon - Twitch — to my understanding this is no fine-tuning, just a (relatively) straightforward loop of agent + functions + knowledge base.
9: WikiTok — filing under “ideas I wish I had” or “projects that are obvious in hindsight”
10: Marius Bakken in his own words: double threshold, lactate testing, altitude, periodization, and more - Running Writings — similarly “ideas I wish I had” — there’s alpha in “translating niche-famous person’s writing/interviews.”
11: Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon
When I talk to young people from New York or Louisiana or Tennessee or California or DC or Indiana or Massachusetts about their futures, they’re not just worried about finding jobs, they’re worried about whether or not the whole concept of a “career” as we know it will exist in five years.
12: Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t – Casey Handmer’s blog — related:
A recruiter or hiring manager is looking for evidence that you can do the job. The only statistically robust predictor of job success is a track record of having successfully done that same job in the past. Everything else, the 8 layers of interviews, the resume, the cover letter, the degree, etc – statistically rounds to zero in terms of predicting on-the-job success.
13: Jason Crawford: The Future of Humanity --- And How You Can Help - YouTube — I’m grateful to the few teachers I had who explained the nuance that all three are true: The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
14: No. The world is not falling apart. - YouTube — related!
Awe. Wonderment. Abundance. Optimism. I mean, that’s the new rebellion. The most punk thing you can be nowadays is an optimist.
15: An Interview with Manna Founder and CEO Bobby Healy About Drone Delivery – Stratechery by Ben Thompson — TIL you can get coffee delivered by drone in Ireland. Not quite at scale yet but still. FAA, when?
16: git push failure while pushing a large respository of code - Stack Overflow — my experience problem-solving with AI recently has been: ChatGPT suggests the correct answer early, I ignore it thinking thatdoesn’t make sense and ask lots of follow up questions, get frustrated, re-read chats, work backwards to eventually try the first thing ChatGPT suggested, it works, oh.