Author: robert.adlington

“Something happens to you when you’re a child and it doesn’t really register. You go through adolescence, and you don’t remember it. Then, at about 19, a massive depression kicks in. This huge depression in the sense of absolute unease.” Therapy helped him to “attempt to forgive what had happened to me”, he says. His…

So what’s different? We developed new techniques that make LLMs a lot better at hard-to-verify tasks. IMO problems were the perfect challenge for this: proofs are pages long and take experts hours to grade. Compare that to AIME, where answers are simply an integer from 0 to 999. Also this model thinks for a long…

The number of particle kingdoms depends on the number of dimensions. The spin-statistics theorem proves that bosons and fermions are the only two possibilities in our three-dimensional world (unless you rethink what makes two particles identical). This has to do with the fact that in 3D, a particle can turn in a spiral, passing under…

You can have an unreasonable amount of influence by being the person who writes stuff down. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/documenting/

Getting workflows well understood before you add AI Agents to them continues to be a hot topic. If you don’t have a clean process today, it’s very hard to bring automation to that work, so many companies are using AI as an opportunity to bring more discipline to the workflows. — Read on x.com/levie/status/1944944667952599367

Interactive visualization of technological history — Read on www.historicaltechtree.com/

According to our theory, there was no precise moment at which the wheel was invented. Rather, just like the evolution of species, the wheel emerged gradually from an accumulation of small improvements. — Read on theconversation.com/how-was-the-wheel-invented-computer-simulations-reveal-the-unlikely-birth-of-a-world-changing-technology-nearly-6-000-years-ago-244038

Poe’s law has created a dangerous game of hopscotch. We’re jumping between irony and reality, but we’re not always sure where those lines are. Interpreting words comedically helps the algorithm spread them as memes and trends, but then interpreting them seriously manifests their negative effects. — Read on www.theverge.com/internet-culture/697406/algospeak-adam-aleksic-excerpt

Scientists have detected about 300 black hole mergers from the gravitational waves they generate. Until now, the most massive merger known produced a black hole about 140 times the mass of the sun. The latest merger produced a black hole up to 265 times more massive than the sun. — Read on www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/14/scientists-detect-biggest-ever-merger-of-two-massive-black-holes

We notice Expert Generalists are never afraid to ask for help, they know there is much they are ignorant of, and are eager to involve those who can navigate through those areas. An effective combination of collaborative curiosity requires humility. Often when encountering new domains we see things that don’t seem to make sense. Effective…