Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
Follow the white rabbit 🐇
How to raise backyard chickens
Researchers identify protein that helps skin cancer spread throughout the body
kipply's blog
Gary’s internet typing guide
Innovative approaches tackle self-cleaning solar panels
The case for how and why AI might kill us all
The Inside View podcast
The goal of this podcast is to create a place where people discuss their inside views about existential risk from AI (including AI Alignment, AI Governance, AI timelines, and everything else that could be decision-relevant for thinking about existential risk from AI).Rob Pike’s 2000 polemic observes that the research community is no longer the source of big new ideas in computing, and that invention has been replaced by observation, leading to a loss of art in the field.
50 years later, we are still living in the Altox’s Xerox world
Humans are an API to ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an API to Python. Python is an API to C. C is an API to assembly. Assembly is an API to binary. Binary is an API to physics. Physics is an API to the machine that runs the universe.
Senator uses ChatGPT for opening remarks
Humanness in the Age of AI
The 21st century da Vinci will be a billionaire who isn’t a genius
Researcher within Google: "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
The death of Ideals. TikTok, goblin mode, and the end of Platonism.
Underhead: an app that turns your to-do list into a life coach
An app that uses AI language models to remove sensationalism from the news while preserving essential information.
Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event
Innovative approaches tackle self-cleaning solar panels
Humanness in the age of AGI
Hating Apple is getting really hard + Zuck’s statement on Apple Vision
How I take tech notes as an note app author
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Other places
(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°)Telegram/Discord group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful.
👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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