AI

Matters Of Scale:

• “Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data”, Treutlein et al 2024

• “Neural Networks (MNIST inference) on the “3-cent” Microcontroller” (90% MNIST in 1 kiloword)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• How disease detectives’ quick work traced deadly E. coli outbreak to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders (cheap pervasive sequencing)

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• “Debugging and consolidating multiple synthetic chromosomes reveals combinatorial genetic interactions”, Zhao et al 2023 (interview)

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “A friendly, non-technical introduction to differential privacy”, Damien Desfontaines

Politics/Religion

• “Is Football A Matter Of Life And Death—Or Is It More Important Than That?”, Dolton & MacKerron2018 (losing hurts more than winning feels good)

• “The Limits of Policy Feedback as a Party-Building Tool”, Galvin & Thurston2020

• “Gladiatorial Combat: The Rules of Engagement”, Carter2006

Psychology/Biology

• “Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Persons with Obesity and Knee Osteoarthritis”, Bliddal et al 2024

Technology

• Richard A. Cash, Who Saved Millions From Dehydration, Dies at 83

• Saul Bass’s 1969 AT&T redesign pitch (the Mother of All Demos—for branding); What it was like working for Paul Rand

• “Usenet: The Origin Story”, Bellovin2024

Economics

• “The Relationship Between Team Diversity and Team Performance: Reconciling Promise and Reality Through a Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Registered Report⁠”, Wallrich et al 2024 (ethnic diversity is the least useful kind: r = 0.00 with team performance)

Philosophy

Fiction

• “Fifty Million Monkeys”, Jones 1943_81ya (the best, earliest, SF story about LLMs? later; via)

• “Survival without dignity”, L Rudolf L

Miscellaneous