Yuxi on the Wired

Funny SEO spam network that scrapes GitHub Issues onto hundreds of auto-generated Blogger sites, cloaking them from human visitors.

Gwern’s lunchtime visit to the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR).

Dream about a new feature in Chrome which helped me understand LLMs a bit better.

Random recollections from the hectic conversations at the afterparty of the Reproductive Frontiers Summit of 2025.

My basic framework for understanding the modern Chinese economy and its growth.

Random recollections from the hectic conversations at a dinner party organized by Dwarkesh Patel.

The exact backstory to that picture of an airplane with red dots on top of it.

Application of a simple concept from physics to personal finance.

To win (?)

An application of computational complexity theory to diffusion language models.

After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will.

Thoughts on the recent ‘DeepSeek shock’ of the stock market.

Notes on phase-space quantum mechanics.

Notes for a talk on the history of neural networks.

How to think like a classical statistical-mechanic, with many examples from gas theory, biology, probability, and information theory.

The hole argument in general relativity is formally analogous to the inverted qualia problem in philosophy.

Short philosophical writings, often poking fun at philosophers.

Ideas for research.

Ideas for stories, fictions, etc.

How to think like a classical thermodynamic-economist, delivered with many illustrations and some sci-fi metaphors.