There is a shared soul shard between Dwarf Fortress, Emacs, and AI that lured me to them and has kept me engaged for over a decade. For a long time, I struggled to articulate the connection, managing …

AI slop is all around and increasingly extraction of useful information will face difficulties as we start to feed more noise into the already noisy world of knowledge. We are in an era of …

The concept of a "universal library" has captivated human imagination for centuries, from the Library of Alexandria to modern projects like Wikipedia and LLMs. Miroslav Kruk’s paper underscores …

Bayesian Thinking Talk (youtube) # Talk details from Frank Harrell’s blog - includes slides This beautiful talk about Bayesian Thinking by Frank Harrell should be essential material for scientists …

Traversing through human history, even in the last two decades, we see a rapid increase in the accessibility of knowledge. The purpose of language, and of course all communication is to transfer a …