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Measure is unending, but my stamina sure isn't.

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Credit goes to the presenter, not the inventor

VN: Hey M, you come up with a name for the architecture yet?

Proofs And Refutations Is The Greatest Work Of Discovery Fiction Ever Written

In “Proofs and Refutations“, Imre Laktos portrays a Socratic dialogue between a teacher and his students as they prove Euler’s theorem V+F =E+2.

Long Covid Probably Happened To Someone And Maybe It Happened To Me But Who Really Knows

Anecdotal Evidence

Some astral energy extraction methods

Some notes on harvesting mass/energy at stellar scales from Anders Sandberg’s fantastic book, Grand Futures.

Software I Wish Existed

Boy, do I have a few!

List of great filk songs

I love filk.

Sensing Physical Necessity

A monologue

Good Reply Game Is Rare

“What’s your favourite movie”?

What I've Learnt About How to Sleep

Consistency matters a lot for good sleep.

Ancient Theories On The Origins Of Life

Inventing evolution was hard.

The Doomers Were Right

https://algon-33.github.io/2025-10-22-The%20Doomers%20Were%20Right.html

Fake Updates

Lying To Yourself About Changing Your Mind

Grokking Modularity

I’ve got an area of model training dynamics I’d like to investigate.

Chaos Alone Is No Bar To Superintelligence

While chaos does place limits on what an ASI could do, those limits don’t prevent it from outsmarting humanity and taking over.

In which the author is struck by an electric couplet

A year ago I stumbled across a couplet that seared itself into my mind:

People Can't Read And What's More They Don't Want To

I’ve noticed a pattern.

Representation Theorems In Alignment

Representation theorems in the context of AI alignment are related to coherence theorems. They make some assumptions about preferences and then prove that the preferences can be represented by expected utility maximization.

Discovery Fiction: The Max Flow Algorithm

I was bored, so I decided to re-construct a max flow algorithm since I forgot how Ford Fulkerson works.Thanks for reading!

You can just do things: 5 frames

-JenniferRM riffing on [norvid_studies].Thanks for reading!

Liouville’s Theorem and the Second Law

Proof Liouville’s theorem says that if you’ve got a set of possible states of a physical system, a “volume” in “phase space” which you might take to represent uncertainty, then that volume doesn’t change as the system evolves.