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Living Essay

Living Essay

New discoveries often have to be conceived initially as variations of existing things, even by their discoverers, because there isn't yet the conceptu

Artists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others. Of course, world-building means

i’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance —ee cummings

Like the best parts of the city, it’s a space designed for people on foot, leaving each street goer no choice but to engage with the space and people

Why I don't like algorithmic/filter bubbles/for you feeds: I refuse to be one thing. I’m two things, three things, a hundred things at once, and I’

i’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance —ee cummings

A good strategy is a journey from seeing a blurry blob to seeing crisp blocks.

But there’s two parts to what I said about moving a step at a time. One, that it’s towards what I’m drawn to. At that point in time, with the informat

i’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance —ee cummings

we are never brought closer to the world than when we find something inscrutinably wrong about it.

Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution - Nature

Assembly theory provides a new framework to understand selection and evolution that integrates physics and biology. It redefines objects not as partic

The fact that most individual neurons are uninterpretable presents a serious roadblock to a mechanistic understanding of language models. We demonstra

"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster. Even when the problem is har

move at the “speed of trust”

don’t think your way into doing, do your way into thinking