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Alex Dong’s Blog
Stream of Thoughts from Alex Dong. What I find interesting, intriguing or insightful.
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Seeing like a Software Company - Celebrate Illegible Work
There are not many articles that capture the experience of working, or seeing your loved ones work, in a large software company like Seeing like a Software Company.
Python@3.14t - First GIL-free Python
Python 3.14 finally released today. The biggest news is that this is the first GIL-free Python. Even though it’s slightly slower and it will have rough edges, this is a huge milestone for Python.
Cory Doctorow: Reverse Centaurs
I picked up Cory Doctorow’s book Radicalized recently at the library. Doctorow has a knack for making you care about people in dramatically different social situations. It forced me to really feel for the characters who are on the receiving end of the ugly social impacts of technology “advancements”.
AI as a Copilot for Mathematical Discovery
Epoch AI’s recent interview with Ken Ono was a fascinating read. Ono, a mathematician at University of Virginia, discussed in greater detail on how AI is transforming mathematical research. It’s a long interview and here are some highlights:
Inspect AI
Joe mentioned the new Petri Alignment tool from Anthropic. As I read through the GitHub repo, I was surprised to find how simple the code is. As I dug deeper, I realized it’s actually a plugin for Inspect AI, an open-source Python project by the UK’s AI Security Institute.
Dwarkesh’s Fossil Fuel Analogy
Dwarkesh published a short follow-up to his previous interview with Richard Sutton that I commented extensively last week.
Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
From Science Daily
Pavel Durov’s interview with Lex Fridman
Pavel’s sincerity (when he recounted the interaction with the French Intelligence service), strong ethical foundation (when asked about what would happen if he is sentenced to 20 years in prison, he said he would starve to death to “reboot” the game rather than give in), and his slow, precise, and deliberate responses are a fresh breeze in an industry that has so much hot air.
Agentic Loop Design - Tool #1: Long-Term Memory that Survives Resets
When a session drags on and the context window fills up, I often watch the models start to get lazy. They drop earlier decisions, skim the edges, and sometimes declare “all tests are passing” after touching only part of the suite.