The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link for Neuron: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH9B…, ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

Are we limited to 10 bits/s thinking bandwidth? Arxiv paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

"The weirdness of reinforcement learning is in principle unbounded."

HISTORY OF PHYSICS What's wrong with this Lagrangean? by David Mermin. [This is so funny that I'll post it in full]

In the late 2000s, computer scientist Stephen Cook (left) bet $100 that it was impossible to use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously. In 2020, his own son (right) proved him wrong — and collected the cash. quantamagazine.org/catalytic-comp…

AI Hype: The phenomenon where experts without expertise hype up imminent arrival of expertise without experts. #AIAphorisms

I did mine a few months ago and it was seamless and super fast! wsj.com/business/us-pa… via The Wall Street Journal

Terence Tao on the supposed Gold from OpenAI at IMO

Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.

Genception

The idea that we will automate work by building artificial versions of ourselves to do exactly the things we were previously doing, rather than redesigning our old workflows to make the most out of existing automation technology, has a distinct “mechanical horse” flavor

Iterating with LLMs to get to the right answer feels like…

@"Data Security in the Generative AI Era"linkedin.com/pulse/data-sec… on ⁦LinkedIn⁩

The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way. nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opi…

"When I hear stories about children getting sick from measles, I feel angry. But not at the parents. I’m frustrated at those knowingly spreading false and misleading claims, and profiting from it." I Grew Up Unvaccinated. Now I’m an Immunologist. nytimes.com/2026/02/27/opi…

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage…