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The more worthwhile endeavors require you to show up vulnerably & honestly, and they leave space for something new to happen. — Read on kottke.org/25/07/hard-things-are-supposed-to-be-hard

Cattell defined fluid intelligence as the ability to reason, analyze, and solve novel problems — what we commonly think of as raw intellectual horsepower. Crystallized intelligence, in contrast, is the ability to use knowledge gained in the past. Think of it as possessing a vast library and understanding how to use it. It is the…

It promotes this overconsumption of things that don’t really have meaning, that are just for the aesthetic,” says Landen Huerter. The interior designer worries about the rise of “fast-fashion trends” in home decor, similar to what has happened in the clothing industry. When people start to feel they need to follow new trends and constantly…

What are the obstructions to AI performing high-quality autonomous math research? I don’t claim to know for sure, but I think they include many of the same obstructions that prevent it from doing many jobs: Long context, long-term planning, consistency, unclear rewards, lack of training data, etc. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/21/daniel-litt/

“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/