September / October / November 2025 Reading

Books

• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco (1988)
• Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War, Paul David Wellstone (1981)

Papers

• Min-p Sampling, Minh Nhat Nguyen et al. (2025)
• Counteractive RL, Ezgi Korkmaz (2025)
• Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling, Charlie Chen et al. (2023)
• Olmo 3, Olmo Team (2025)

Blogs / Essays

• The Theory of History That Guides Xi Jinping, Tanner Greer
• Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference, Horace He and Thinking Machines Lab
• Chartbook 410: Malign coincidence – MAGA & the moment of hyperscaling, Adam Tooze
• Après Qui, Le Déluge?, Maia Mindel
• The Electric Slide, Packy McCormick and Sam D'Amico
• 90%, Armin Ronacher
• Rage For The Dying Of The Light, Maia Mindel
• MoE Inference Economics from First Principles, Piotr Mazurek and Eric Schreiber
• Modular Manifolds, Thinking Machines
• On MLA, Eryk Banatt
• Low Rank Pertrubations, Eryk Banatt
• A position on positions, Ben Recht
• Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System, Aleksa Gordić
• Cable Caballero, Packy McCormick
• Functions are Vectors, Max Slater