Dmitrii's personal blog

Part of a series “old econ papers” The Use of Knowledge in Society is usually summarized as “central planning doesn’t work because markets are better”.

Part of a series “old econ papers” Zipf’s Law for Cities: An Explanation: rank cities by population.

Part of a series “old econ papers” Paul Romer’s Endogenous Technological Change: once somebody discovers a useful algorithm, thousands of people can use the knowledge at the same time.

Part of a series “old econ papers” Michael Spence’s Job Market Signaling starts from an asymmetry: employers can’t directly observe how productive I am, but I know more about myself than they do.

I had two papers accepted by the ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop!

Newest first: A searchable, filterable table of “What Are You Working On?”

Mostly because Apple Silicon is built for weight-streaming (memory bandwidth), not massive block-parallel computation.

I keep seeing the same argument on HackerNews: “Self-host your LLMs to save money”, but it’s just not true if you run the numbers.

# remove all things from the dock defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array && killall Dock # install homebrew /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" # install chrome and firefox brew install --c…

It became much easier to build specialized tools for yourself to satisfy your curiosity or solve personal problems.