My month-long sleep intervention experiment
In November 2025, I tested two different sleep interventions (mouth taping and nose strips) against a couple of variables on a single subject (myself).
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Invoke shoulder people
There is a prompt engineering trick for LLMs where you ask for a letter in the style of "patio11 dangerous professional", or for code written "by a senior engineer".
Board games are for when you don't know what to talk about
I like spending time with people, and I like that time to be quality time.
Pick-up basketball to maximize benefits and minimize risks
Playing basketball with strangers is one of my guilty pleasures.
Do papers submitted later receive lower review scores?
Every October, machine learning PhD students all over the world celebrate the ICLR deadline.
Things I hated at first but now like and also things you should just try
I wanted to write a “List of things you should try”. But alas.
Inkhaven’s first retraction
tl;dr: I no longer believe immortality and reproduction are incompatible
Immortality and reproduction are incompatible in the long term future
Having both at once for all people forever is not possible.
Prioritize the base of Maslow’s hierarchy
everything changes when you realize the smartest people you’ll meet in your life are merely you with abundant sleep, the most driven people are just you after reading something motivational, the hottest people are just you a great hair day; you can just change these things
You should publish your Stack
A list of things you use is a good thing to put on your website