Michael Nielsen

I do very much enjoy Alison Gopnik's short memoir

TSMC's new 5 nm fab in Arizona will be 1,100 acres. This article is frankly just incredible:

Interesting articles both!

I really enjoyed reading the transformer code here: [link] The key code is about ~70 lines, of which most is very straightforward / boilerplate. The core of it is maybe 20 lines - that's what does GPT-2!

Interesting article on converting books (and other written materials) to audio: [link] It has a selling-you-something patter that many will find offputting. But the core suggestions seem pretty interesting, and I expect to try several

This is great!

Downgrade your cargo cult for the loss, to paraphrase @meaningness. From: [link] by @Richvn. The whole thing is well worth reading if you're interested at all in science policy

Well worth reading:

An interesting reply to the paper, basically going full AI and data-mining:

The post is well worth reading in full.

I enjoyed Gallwey's later "The Inner Game of Work" a great deal, too. There is also a fascinating essay by SB Tang, which basically reinvents many of the ideas, for cricket, through interviews with great batsmen:

One of my favourite pieces of writing about technical writing, by David Mermin: [link] Thoughtful, and amusing, throughout.