December / January / February 2025/2026 Reading
Books
- The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, Alvaro Mutis (2002)
- The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu (2008)
- The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu (2008)
- The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector (1964)
- Breakneck, Dan Wang (2024)
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (2011)
Papers
Blogs / Essays
- Fun with Linear Transformations and Symbolic Maps, John Hewitt
- Contra DSPy and GEPA, Benjamin Anderson
- Code Review as Human Alignment, in the Era of LLMs, Edward Z. Yang
- FastAPI for TypeScript Developers, Loren Stewart
- Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of High Performance Matmul Kernels, Aleksa Gordić
- A Pragmatic Vision for Interpretability, Neel Nanda
- Now What?, John J. Hopfield
- Reflections on 2025, Samuel Albanie
- Capital in the 22nd Century, Philip Trammell and Dwarkesh Patel
- 2025 Letter, Dan Wang
- 2025 Letter, Zhengdong Wang
- Is The Truth Out There?, Maia Mindel
- a16z: The Power Brokers, Packy McCormick
- What (and How Far Off) Is Self-Replicating Capital?
- The AI Revolution Is Here. Will the Economy Survive the Transition?, The Substack Post
- The Cyborg Era: What AI Means for Jobs, Séb Krier
- Zhipu CEO Zhang Peng on Taking China's First LLM Company Public, Jiang Jiang
- The AI Patchwork Emerges, Dean W. Ball
- The Adolescence of Technology, Dario Amodei
- Attention Sinks from the Graph Perspective, The Tensor Throne
- Beyond Attention as a Graph, The Tensor Throne
- Modular Manifolds, Thinking Machines
- LoRA Without Regret, John Schulman and Thinking Machines
- On-Policy Distillation, Kevin Lu and Thinking Machines
- Recursive Language Models, Alex L. Zhang
- Anthropic Economic Index Report: Economic Primitives, Anthropic
- Rented Virtue, Will Manidis and Nabeel S. Qureshi
- My Week with the AI Populists, Jasmine Sun
- The Left Is Missing Out on AI, Dan Kagan-Kans
- Centrist Imaginations, rayne fisher-quann
- As Rocks May Think, Eric Jang
- How to Build a Distributed Queue in a Single JSON File on Object Storage, Dan Harrison
- Mathematics in the Library of Babel, Daniel Litt
- The First Fully General Computer Action Model, Standard Intelligence Team