Explorations by Raila

Blog Subpages:

• AI and LLMs
• Programming
• Courses

Interesting Links:

• Are you living in a Computer Simulation? by Nick Bostrom

• Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton

• Patrick Collison's advice for 10-20 year old

• Gates Notes

• Stanford CS336 - Language Modeling from Scratch by Percy Liang
  Quite possibly one of the LLM resources.

• Terence Tao

• Rising Tide by Helen Toner Previous board member at Open AI

• Dwarkesh Patel, Lex Fridman
  

Tech News:

• Semianalysis
  Latest on hardware and datacenters.

• Simon Willison Blog, news.smol.ai, Import AI, HN, Github Feed, Twitter Megalist
  

• stratechery.com by Ben Thompson
  Strategic analysis of tech companies, platforms, and ecosystems.

• Nature.com
  Science research and news.

Personal webites:

• andymatuschak.org
• eugenewei.com
• lewish.io
• horace.io
• thesephist.com by Linus Lee
  Knowledge representations, software interface prototypes

Pop culture and news:

• Ezra Klien
• New Yorker
• Al Jazeera
• Shashi Tharoor

Magazines:

• palladiummag.com - Governance Futurism
• nplusonemag.com - Literary and cultural criticism from younger intellectuals, often political and reflective in tone.

Geology:

• The Geology Society of America
  Covers a range of geological topics including tectonics, geochronology, and sedimentary processes

• Nature Earth

• Volcano Cafe
  Community-run blog focusing on volcanic systems, often linked to tectonic plate boundaries.

• Geology Bites