Articles by sebg
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Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot (argmin.net)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 675 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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There's No Such Thing as Society in the Objective Function (laurenleek.substack.com)

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The Economic Organisation of a POW Camp [pdf] (1945) (cornell.edu)

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A (lukewarm) defense of Minsky and Papert (federicomilanesio.substack.com)

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Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python (florianwilhelm.info)

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Reproducing civilization: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it (josephheath.substack.com)

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Why I like the word "exercise" when we learn math (kidswholovemath.substack.com)

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Cleanyourtv – Debloat Any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi (github.com/gathin23)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 674 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Diplomatic Ways to Critique AI Slop (seascapemodels.org)

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DrinkR: Estimate your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) (right in the browser) (rasmusab.github.io)

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Safespace: A Safe Space to Experience Pull Requests (github.com/jonocarroll)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 673 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post (patreon.com)

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Alien Crash Site (aliencrashsite.org)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 672 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5 (scientific-python.org)

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Distilling Stockfish with One Billion Positions (lukesalamone.com)

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Trump Tourism Effects (kieranhealy.org)

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Some simple models of induced demand (datascienceconfidential.github.io)

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Why Vim Is More Than Just an Editor (ssp.sh)

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Lab Policy on AI in Writing and Communication (columbia.edu)

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People that worked on the same idea for decades (nityasnotes.com)

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Public to Private Equity in the United States: A Long-Term Look (morganstanley.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 665 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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You can't afford that new gadget (datawrapper.de)

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Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing (tigerbeetle.com)

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What Is Reasoning (pocoo.org)

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How Diplomats See the World (asteriskmag.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 664 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Building Bibliographic Superwork Clusters for Discovery with Local LLMs (thisismattmiller.com)

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A Calculator, Compiled into a Transformer (ood.dev)

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Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale (medium.com/airbnb-engineering)

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I wrote an AI textbook – how long until AI can do it better? (interconnects.ai)

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Understanding is the new bottleneck (geoffreylitt.com)

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Cross-Validation From Scratch and a Surprise at n=100 (kenkoonwong.com)

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Colour Drained from Our Furniture (europeancorrespondent.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 663 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Dice, (De)Convolution and Generating Functions (demofox.org)

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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)

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A Visual Guide to Quantization (2024) (maartengrootendorst.com)

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Power 2026 – Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI (power2026.ai)

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Measuring Scientific Progress (diffuse.one)

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Retire the Abstractions (stanford.edu)

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The German Mittelstand – What I learned from factories across Germany (kieranvelasquez.substack.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 662 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 661 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Exploring Gymflation with AI (cbowdon.github.io)

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Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people (quantixed.org)

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Easy A's, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation (nber.org)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 660 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Scouting Uncertainty: adding value to soccer (football) data scouting results (marclamberts.medium.com)

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What Is a Smith Chart? (arenaphysica.com)

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Latent Thought Flows with Text Compression (latent-thought-flows.vercel.app)

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Users Are Humans in Some Context (minsukchang.com)

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Learning from experience instead of curated datasets (oaklab.ai)

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FIFA World Cup 2026 Data Portraits (bogachev.fr)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 659 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 658 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Small Molecules Have More Information per Atom Than Biologics (corinwagen.github.io)

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Generative AI creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers (arxiv.org)

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Evolution of moral expression in song lyrics (nature.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 657 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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General LLMs outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks (nature.com)

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Scaling Laws, Carefully (lilianweng.github.io)

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The Story of Hemoglobin (newtinteractive.com)

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Surprising lessons from my research scientist job search (yongzx.github.io)

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How the Heck Do Synthesizers Work? (An Interactive Exploration) (perthirtysix.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 656 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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Correlated LLM Name Priors and Their Haunting of the Web and Academic Publishing (arxiv.org)

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A Beginner's Guide to Robotics Hardware (interlatent.com)

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The software industry: annealing, but wrong (apenwarr.ca)

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Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style (medium.com/noamshazeer)

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Preschoolers search semantic networks in broader more variable ways than adults (osf.io)

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Data Engineering Acquisitions (2022-2026) (ssp.sh)

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[flagged] Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia (bomwiki.com)

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Formal Methods and the Future of Programming (janestreet.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 655 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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When is detecting AI-generated text worthwhile? (columbia.edu)

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Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital (oup.com)

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Britain's brain drain, measured in mathematical olympians (substack.com)

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Everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance (2025) (danioffline.substack.com)

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A Beginner's Guide to Mischief (rawandferal.substack.com)

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An Overview of Modern AI Robotics from First Principles (interlatent.com)

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Data from 66,000+ musician practice sessions (reddit.com)

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There Are Many Configurations of Business That Work (commoncog.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 654 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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DiffusionBlocks: Training Neural Networks One Block at a Time (sakana.ai)

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Training Data for Bio AI Models (dimensioncap.com)

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RIP Jim Rutt (1953-2026), and Thoughts on Philanthropy and Culture-Building (lydialaurenson.substack.com)

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How does electricity get to my wall socket? (civilizationscalelevers.substack.com)

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AI for Bio has a Fuzzy API problem (ankitg.me)

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Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006) (mikeash.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 653 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)

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NYED Data Explorer Shows 15 Years of Charter School Success (redwallanalytics.com)

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Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers (lemire.me)

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How Unfair Is the Coin? (ankitg.me)

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Thoughts on People and Blogs (manuelmoreale.com)

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 652 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)