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Articles

• Interview: nobonoko, Master of the Minimal Sequencer, 27th of March 2026,
  where we jam.

• You Can Stop Marrying For Genes, 10th of March 2026,
  where we settle down in a lodge by the lake.

• The Spelling of Others, 18th of February 2026,
  where we buy thank-yous for $0.15.

• How Much of AI Labs' Research Is Safety?,
  8th of January 2026, where we parse preparedness posts.

• Travel Is Not Education, 4th of January 2026,
  is really just a eulogy of the internet.

• Casuistic Alignment, 23rd of December 2025,
  where we write a new civil code.

• Coding Intelligence Asymptotics, 18th of December 2025,
  where we merge the billion lines PR.

• Where is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy?,
  14th of December 2025, where we end the scaling era.

• Operating Margins, 8th of November 2025,
  where we turn a profit.

• Applied Keynesian Psychology, 29th of October 2025,
  where we sit by the pool.

• Hilbert's Power, 1st of October 2025,
  where we point to the "ought".

• What GPT-oss Leaks, 19th of September 2025,
  where we comb through glitch tokens.

• That Squiggly, Treacherous Line, 2nd of August 2025,
  where we workshop new words.

• On Language Learning, 23rd of July 2025,
  where we spend 5000 hours.

• Baba is Eval, 3rd of July 2025,
  has a language model play Baba is You.

• Handling the Shoes, 29th of June 2025,
  about how a tea ceremony feels.

• Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook,
  7th of June 2025, where we design a park.

• Air to Bread, 10th of May 2025,
  solves the most serious problem of the year 1900.

• Why does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?,
  31st of March 2025,
  where your browser won't display the glyphs.

• The Whimsical Investor, 28th of March 2025,
  wherein the world's silliest companies are identified.

• Towards the Blank Search Bar, 8th of March 2025,
  where we fix graphical user interfaces.

• A Map of Python, 28th of February 2025,
  where we play Python packages.

• Everybody in History, Everywhere, all at Once,
  5th of January 2024, surveying all Wikipedia people.

Site News

Nov 2025; Occupied the Hacker News front page for >100 hours. Articles are listed by popularity here.

July 2025; Recorded a backlink from gwern.net.